Inder Monga

Indermohan (Inder) S. Monga is the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the Department of Energy’s high-performance network user facility. Optimized for large-scale science, ESnet connects and provides services to more than 50 DOE research sites, including the entire national laboratory system, its supercomputing facilities, and its major scientific instruments, as well as peers with 270+ research and commercial networks worldwide. 

In addition to managing ESnet, Inder works to advance the science of networking for collaborative and distributed research applications, as well as contributes to ongoing research projects tackling quantum networking and the programmability, analytics, and quality of experience driving convergence between the application layer and the network. He is the principal investigator for the Quantum Application Network Testbed for Novel Entanglement Technology (QUANT-NET) project and co-PI of the National Science Foundation’s FABRIC testbed project. Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, Inder worked in network engineering for Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, and Nortel. The holder of 25 patents, he received a B.S. in electrical/electronics engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and a master’s in computer engineering from Boston University.