Publications & Patents
Granted patents, published applications, papers, commentary, a talk, and review service. Each sits on its own shelf. Granted is granted. Pending is pending. Commentary is commentary.
Patents
Four granted U.S. patents in customer-premises equipment, plant-fault response, interference, and access security. Assigned to Charter Communications Operating, LLC. Published applications are listed separately below and are not granted.
US 12,184,473 B2
Method and system to mitigate cable plant faults using access CPE device
US 12,261,684 B1
Minimizing the impact of in-band interference in transmissions to a customer premises equipment (CPE) device
US 12,388,634 B2
Customer premises equipment access using password-of-the-day
US 12,580,787 B2
Implementing cable modems in single access device by registering modem software stack (MSS) with registration server using media access control (MAC) address
Published applications (pending, not granted)
US 2025/0078067 A1
Identifying expiring code verification certificates in customer premises equipment devices
US 2026/0057220 A1
Generative artificial intelligence for reducing network diagnostic interval and/or improving network performance
Further applications are filed and not yet published. They are not listed here.
Writing
Two SCTE Cable-Tec Expo papers, one guest commentary, and one conference talk. SCTE is an industry venue, and the venue name stays with each paper.
Guest commentary · Telecoms.com
Why AI-Ready Telecom Networks Need Better Data Architecture Before Better Models
Published September 10, 2026. Guest commentary arguing that AI value in telecom networks depends first on unified telemetry, observable data lineage, deliberate edge-cloud placement of intelligence, and built-in human oversight.
SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2020
Streaming Telemetry Data from the Home Network using OpenWrt Access CPE
S. Ovadia, D. Rawat, D. Lynch
SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2024
Enhancing ISP Network and Service Optimization Through Causal Inference and Knowledge Base Development
S. Ozer, D. Rawat, P. Anderson, L. Zhou, et al.
Conference speaking
SCTE TechExpo 2026 · Talk
From Endpoint to Control Point: Edge-Coordinated Service Assurance for Broadband Access
September 30, 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia
Full publication history and academic identity are maintained on Google Scholar and ORCID.
Peer review & technical program committees
Reviewer and technical program committee service for IEEE and ACM conferences and workshops, listed venue by venue. IEEE SIME 2026 issued a Certificate of Recognition for technical reviewing. Each venue expands to show the role and paper count.
IEEE SIME 2026 · 7 papers reviewed
Technical Program Committee member. IEEE International Conference on Smart Innovations for Medicine and Engineering. Issued an official Certificate of Recognition and Reviewer Activity Report.
8th IEEE SOFTT 2026 · 5 papers reviewed
Technical Program Committee member. IEEE International Symposium on Future Telecommunication Technologies, Telkom University.
AI City Challenge, ECCV 2026 · 4 papers reviewed
Reviewer. 10th AI City Challenge Workshop, European Conference on Computer Vision 2026.
ACM SIGSPATIAL UrbanAI’26 · 4 papers reviewed
Program Committee member. 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Urban AI.
IEEE-HKN 2026 · 3 papers reviewed
Program Committee member. IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Conference 2026.
ETECOM 2026 & ECCV-HuMoWM 2026 · 2 papers reviewed
Technical Program Committee reviewer. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Computing, ENSTA IP Paris; and the Workshop on Human Motion-Informed World Models at ECCV 2026.
Also serving on the technical or international program committee for AAI 2026, ARCI’ 2027, IMITEC 2026, and VI CIII ULima 2027, without papers assigned yet.
