Vijay K. Varma is a Senior Scientist in the Wireless Systems Research Department of Applied Communication Sciences, Red Bank, NJ.  He has over 25 years experience in wireless communications and has been involved in various systems issues, including speech coding, signaling and call control protocols, wireless data, mobility management protocols, and wireless network architectures. 

His current research interest includes wireless system architecture evolution, IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), and wireless priority services.  He has published several papers in the area of wireless communications, given 15 tutorials, organized many workshops, and given and chaired panel sessions at various IEEE conferences.  He attends 3GPP standards meetings relating to LTE, EPC, IMS, and Priority Services. He was the Technical Program Vice Chair for the IEEE WCNC conference in 2005 and is an associate editor for IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

Dr. Varma received the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and the Ph.D. degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, both in Electrical Engineering.  He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.  He received the Frederick E. Terman award in 1985 and Telcordia Technologies CEO Award in 2010.