Cliff Tavares

Cliff Tavares is the Sr Director of platform engineering for networking and security products at Keysight technologies. He has more than 2 decades of experience in AI infrastructure, Data Center networking, Cybersecurity, O-RAN front-haul, and Timing Sensitive Networks - helping vendors test and navigate complex performance and interoperability of multi-Terabit scale networks. Cliff is the Co-Chair of the UEC Compliance and Test Working Group. He has been a representative and contributor to several standards bodies including the Berkeley wireless research center [BWRC], SONiC, IEEE 802.11WNG/11n/11e and the 5G O-RAN Alliance. Cliff holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and MBA from USC. Cliff holds 18 patents, is widely published.