Ram's engineering career has been a pursuit to achieve very high levels of software engineering quality and productivity. His techniques are implemented at several Fortune 500 companies and cover: Embedded Systems, Applications, ERP systems, Operating Systems, Networks, etc. One of his inventions, Orthogonal Defect Classification, reduced software root cause analysis cost by 100x. This was recognized by the IEEE Technical Achievement Award. His current focus is legacy redesign using advanced methods that gain speed. He teaches a software engineering graduate course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) created specifically for Systems Engineers. An IEEE Fellow, with over 50 peer reviewed publications, led the Software Reliability Steering committee for a decade. He was recognized with the IEEE Meritorious Service Award for this work. Following his Ph.D from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, he started at IBM Research. He founded and led the Center for Software Engineering at the T.J. Watson Research Center. His consulting practice today provides training and analysis services that touch almost 10,000 software engineers across the US, Europe and Asia.
