Marina Thottan is the Group Leader for the Control Research Group in Nokia Bell Labs. She joined Bell Labs Research in 1999 and has contributed to a wide variety of projects, including Online Gaming, Content Distribution, Routing protocols, Data over Optical networks, High Speed Router Design, Network Management and Anomaly Detection. Most recently she has been leading work on Reliable Software-Defined Networks (SDN). She has also made significant contributions to the field of Smart Grid Communication Networks and Analytics. Her contributions were recognized by two Bell Labs Teamwork Awards. Marina received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rensselaer in 2000. She has published over 60 papers in scientific journals, book chapters and conferences and holds several patents in the areas of network management, interactive network applications, routing algorithms, data analytics and network architectures. She is co-author of a recent book Communication Networks for Smart Grids: Making Smart Grids Real and has also co-edited a book Algorithms for Next Generation Networks. Marina is an IEEE Fellow and a Bell Labs Fellow.