 Pankaj Shah
Executive Director of OARnet
Pankaj Shah serves as Executive Director of OARnet which serves as the Technology Infrastructure for the University System of Ohio. His duties include management of OSCnet, the education component of the statewide Broadband Ohio Network and a GigaPoP on the national Internet2 network.
Prior to this position, Shah worked as Senior Director for American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) and Marquette University’s Director of Infrastructure for Information Technology Services. Before that, he was responsible for creating and managing OSC Networking’s Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC-Ohio). He has strategic and tactical knowledge encompassing education, public, private and not-for-profit projects through his appointments at New York City Transit Authority (now Metropolitan Transportation Authority) and American Society for Nondestructive testing.
Shah serves on various Internet2, government and The Quilt committees. He is currently on the Internet2’s Governance and Nominations Committee, ADEC Engineering Team and represents OSCnet at state and national levels. He also serves on the steering committee of StateNets group within Net@edu and Educause.
Focusing on emerging needs in research, education, government and economic development, Shah has identified trends in high-speed data transfer, videoconferencing, optical, wireless and satellite-based hybrid networking. He has received National Science Foundation (NSF), state, and private funding for several projects. During his previous tenure at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, he was an instrumental partner in the Transportable Satellite Internet System, a satellite trailer used for distance learning and special events in rural areas, and at conferences where reliable terrestrial Internet connectivity is unavailable.
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