Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman is a Fellow at Dell EMC. Her specialties include network routing protocols and network security. She is the author of the textbook Interconnections (about network layers 2 and 3) and coauthor of Network Security. She has been recognized with many industry honors including induction into the National Academy of Engineering, the Inventor Hall of Fame, The Internet Hall of Fame, Washington State Academy of Science, and lifetime achievement awards from Usenix and SIGCOMM. She has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.