Ashok is an engineer at Veraz Networks in San Jose, California. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the North Carolina State University, where Munindar Singh was his advisor.

Ashok is currently involved in architecting a state-of-the-art service delivery and execution platform at Veraz.

Ashok has authored several peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences relating to Multiagent systems, Software engineering, Web Services, and Business Process automation and management. Ashok also serves as co-chair of the IEEE FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) working group on Agent and Web Service Interaction.

Ashok Mallya

While in school, Ashok interned with the Raster Image Processing Group at the Texas Instruments Asia Development Center in Bangalore, the Chemoinformatics Group at Glaxo Smithkline in Durham, NC, and the IBM SmallTalk Server Group in Raleigh, NC.