Tal Lavian is a scientist, educator, and technologist. He is known for his contributions in the fields of telecommunications, network communications, and Internet protocols. Lavian has made advancements in digital technologies, particularly in networking and communications.

Education 
Lavian graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. He pursued advanced studies, earning a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the same institution. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the fields of network communications and Telecommunications.

Lavian pursued his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Randy Katz.

Career 
Lavian has held academic roles at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as an industry fellow and lecturer at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering as well as in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) Department. He also has affiliations with UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. During his time at UC Berkeley, Lavian participated in research under Professor David Patterson, who held the position of head at the UC Berkeley RAD Lab.

He made contributions to the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) and startup accelerator SkyDeck.

He currently holds roles as the Principal Scientist at TelecommNet Engineering and as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of VisuMenu.

Lavian has contributed to research by publishing numerous papers in journals and conferences, with appearances in IEEE and ACM.

Contributions 
Lavian has made contributions as a co-author to a collection of more than 25 scientific publications and has been recognized as a named inventor on over 120 patents. He served as Principal Investigator (PI) for three projects under the US Department of Defense (DARPA).

Lavian led and developed the first network resource scheduling service for grid computing. He managed and engineered the first demonstrated dynamic transatlantic allocation of 10Gbs Lambdas as a grid service. Additionally, he developed and successfully demonstrated the first wire-speed active network on commercial hardware. He also created and chaired Nortel Networks’ EDN Patent Committee. The majority of his academic and professional career was spent in Silicon Valley.

Lavian has assumed the role of an expert witness in cases involving patents. His primary expertise lies in network communications, including telecommunications, mobile wireless technology, Internet protocols, and software technologies.

Publications 

 "R&D Models for Advanced Development & Corporate Research" Authors: Ikhlaq Sidhu, Tal Lavian, Victoria Howell Conference: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2015 Received "Best Paper Presentation Award"
 "Communications Architecture in Support of Grid Computing" Author: Tal Lavian Published: Scholar’s Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-3-639-51098-0
 "Applications Drive Secure Light-path Creation across Heterogeneous Domains, Feature Topic Optical Control Planes for Grid Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Vision" Authors: Gommans L., Van Oudenaarde B., Dijkstra F., De Laat C., Lavian T., Monga I., Taal A., Travostino F., Wan A. Journal: IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 100-106 
 "Lambda Data Grid: Communications Architecture in Support of Grid Computing" Author: Tal I. Lavian Doctoral Thesis, University of California at Berkeley, January 2006 
 "Information Switching Networks" Authors: Hoang D.B., T. Lavian Workshop: The 4th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP 2005), December 2005, Sunshine Coast, Australia
 "Impact of Grid Computing on Network Operators and HW Vendors" Authors: Allcock B., Arnaud B., Lavian T., Papadopoulos P.B., Hasan M.Z., Kaplow W. Conference: IEEE Hot Interconnects at Stanford University 2005, pp. 89-90 
 "DWDM-RAM: A Data Intensive Grid Service Architecture Enabled by Dynamic Optical Networks" Authors: Lavian T., Mambretti J., Cutrell D., Cohen H.J., Merrill S., Durairaj R., Daspit P., Monga I., Naiksatam S., Figueira S., Gutierrez D., Hoang D.B., Travostino F. Conference: CCGRID 2004, pp. 762-764 
 "DWDM-RAM: An Architecture for Data-Intensive Service Enabled by Next Generation Dynamic Optical Networks" Authors: Hoang D.B., Cohen H., Cutrell D., Figueira S., Lavian T., Mambretti J., Monga I., Naiksatam S., Travostino F. Conference: Proceedings IEEE Globecom 2004, Workshop on High-Performance Global Grid Networks, Houston, November 29 - December 3, 2004, pp. 400-409
 "Implementation of a Quality of Service Feedback Control Loop on Programmable Routers" Authors: Nguyen C., Hoang D.B., Zhao, I.L., Lavian, T. Conference: 12th IEEE International Conference on Networks 2004 (ICON 2004), Singapore, Volume 2, November 16-19, 2004, pp. 578-582 
 "A Platform for Large-Scale Grid Data Service on Dynamic High-Performance Networks" Authors: Lavian T., Hoang D.B., Mambretti J., Figueira S., Naiksatam S., Kaushil N., Monga I., Durairaj R., Cutrell D., Merrill S., Cohen H., Daspit P., Travostino F. Conference: GridNets 2004, San Jose, CA., October 2004
 "DWDM-RAM: Enabling Grid Services with Dynamic Optical Networks" Authors: Figueira S., Naiksatam S., Cohen H., Cutrell D., Daspit P., Gutierrez D., Hoang D.B., Lavian T., Mambretti J., Merrill S., Travostino F. Conference: 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Chicago, USA, April 2004, pp. 707-714 
 "An Extensible, Programmable, Commercial-Grade Platform for Internet Service Architecture" Authors: Lavian T., Hoang D.B., Travostino F., Wang P.Y., Subramanian S., Monga I. Journal: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics on Technologies Promoting Computational Intelligence, Openness and Programmability in Networks and Internet Services, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2004, pp. 58-68 
 "DWDM-RAM: An Architecture for Data-Intensive Service Enabled by Next Generation Dynamic Optical Networks" Authors: Lavian T., Cutrell D., Mambretti J., Weinberger J., Gutierrez D., Naiksatam S., Figueira S., Hoang D.B. Conference: Supercomputing Conference, SC2003 Igniting Innovation, Phoenix, November 2003
 "Edge Device Multi-Unicasting for Video Streaming" Authors: Lavian T., Wang P., Durairaj R., Hoang D., Travostino F. Conference: 10th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2003), Tahiti, Volume 2, February 23 - March 1, 2003, pp. 1441-1447
 "The SAHARA Model for Service Composition Across Multiple Providers" Authors: Raman B., Agarwal S., Chen Y., Caesar M., Cui W., Lavian T., Machiraju S., Mao Z. M., Porter G., Roscoe T., Subramanian L., Suzuki T., Zhuang S., Joseph A. D., Katz Y.H., Stoica I. Conference: ACM Pervasive Computing Conference 2002, pp. 1-14 
 "Enabling Active Flow Manipulation in Silicon-Based Network Forwarding Engines" Authors: Lavian T., Wang P., Travostino F., Subramanian S., Duraraj R., Hoang D.B., Sethaput V., Culler D. Conference: Active Networks Conference and Exposition (DANCE) 2002, May 29-30, 2002, pp. 65-76 
 "Practical Active Network Services within Content-Aware Gateways" Authors: Subramanian S., Wang P., Durairaj R., Rasimas J., Travostino F., Lavian T., Hoang D.B 
 "Active Networking on a Programmable Network Platform" Authors: Wang P.Y.; Lavian T.; Duncan R.; Jaeger R. Conference: Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPEN ARCH), Anchorage, April 2002
 "Intelligent Network Services through Active Flow Manipulation" Authors: Lavian T.; Wang P.; Travostino F.; Subramanian S.; Hoang D.B.; Sethaput V. Workshop: IEEE Intelligent Networks 2001 Workshop (IN2001), Boston, May 2001
 "Intelligent Network Services through Active Flow Manipulation" Authors: Lavian T.; Wang P.; Travostino F.; Subramanian S.; Hoang D.B.; Sethaput V. Workshop: Intelligent Network Workshop, 2001 IEEE, May 6-9, 2001, pp. 73-82
 "Enabling Active Flow Manipulation in Silicon-based Network Forwarding Engine" Authors: Lavian T.; Wang P.; Travostino F.; Subramanian S.; Hoang D.B.; Sethaput V.; Culler D. Journal: Journal of Communications and Networks, March 2001, pp. 78-87 
 "Active Networking on a Programmable Networking Platform" Authors: Lavian T.; Wang P.Y. Conference: IEEE Open Architectures and Network Programming, 2001, pp. 95-103

 "Enabling Active Networks Services on a Gigabit Routing Switch" Authors: Wang P.; Jaeger R.; Duncan R.; Lavian T.; Travostino F. Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Active Middleware Services, 2000 
 "Dynamic Classification in Silicon-Based Forwarding Engine Environments" Authors: Jaeger R.; Duncan R.; Travostino F.; Lavian T.; Hollingsworth J. Workshop: 10th IEEE Workshop on Metropolitan Area and Local Networks, November 21-24, 1999, pp. 103-109 
 "Open Programmable Architecture for Java-Enabled Network Devices" Authors: Lavian T.; Jaeger R. F.; Hollingsworth J. K. Conference: IEEE Hot Interconnects at Stanford University, August 1999, pp. 265-277
 "Open Java SNMP MIB API" Authors: Rob Duncan, Tal Lavian, Roy Lee, Jason Zhou Report: Bay Architecture Lab Technical Report TR98-038, December 1998
 "Java-Based Open Service Interface Architecture" Authors: Lavian T.; Lau S. Report: Bay Architecture Lab Technical Report TR98-010, March 1998
 "Parallel SIMD Architecture for Color Image Processing" Author: Lavian T. Institution: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 1995
 "Grid Network Services, Draft-ggf-ghpn-netservices-1.0" Authors: George Clapp, Tiziana Ferrari, Doan B. Hoang, Gigi Karmous-Edwards, Tal Lavian, Mark J. Leese, Paul Mealor, Inder Monga, Volker Sander, Franco Travostino Organization: Global Grid Forum (GGF)
 "Project DRAC: Creating an applications-aware network" Authors: Travostino F.; Keates R.; Lavian T.; Monga I.; Schofield B. Journal: Nortel Technical Journal, February 2005, pp. 23-26
 "Optical Network Infrastructure for Grid, Draft-ggf-ghpn-opticalnets-1" Authors: Dimitra Simeonidou, Reza Nejabati, Bill St. Arnaud, Micah Beck, Peter Clarke, Doan B. Hoang, David Hutchison, Gigi Karmous-Edwards, Tal Lavian, Jason Leigh, Joe Mambretti, Volker Sander, John Strand, Franco Travostino Organization: Global Grid Forum (GGF) Standard: GHPN Standard GFD-I.036 August 2004
 "Popeye - Using Fine-grained Network Access Control to Support Mobile Users and Protect Intranet Hosts" Authors: Mike Chen, Barbara Hohlt, Tal Lavian, December 2000 
 "Open Networking - Better Networking through Programmability" Author: Tal Lavian
 "Dangerous Liaisons - Software Combinations as Derivative Works?" Author: Determann L. Journal: Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 2006. (Lavian T. contributor to the technical section)

Awards and honors 
Awards that Lavian has received include:

 Top Talent Award from Nortel
 Top Inventors Award from Nortel EDN
 IEEE-WCET (Wireless Communications Engineering Technologies) Certification in 2012
 Dual recognition as Competent Communicator from Toastmasters International
 Advanced Communicator Bronze from Toastmasters International
 Best Paper Presentation Award at the ICE/IEEE Conference for his work on "R&D Models for Advanced Development & Corporate Research"
 Active participation in the USA FIT - San Jose Marathon Running Club (2017-2020)

References

External links 
Tal Lavian Website
Tal Lavian Profile
Tal Lavian List of Publications
Tal Lavian on ResearchGate
Tal Lavian on Google Scholar
Patents by Inventor Tal Lavian

Living people