With his colleague Prof. Reza Rejaie, Ram co-leads the Oregon Network Research Group (ONRG). Ram earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and his B.Tech. in Information Technology from the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Anna University. Ram's research has been recognized with Best Paper Awards from ACM CoNEXT and ACM SIGCOMM GAIA and has been covered in the media (NYTimes, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Boston Globe, Gizmodo, Mashable, among others). In addition, his research on Internet topology and robustness ("Internet Atlas") has recently been named as "One of the 100 Greatest Innovations of 2017" and awarded the "Best of What's New" (in security category) by the Popular Science Magazine.