Mallesham Dasari is a faculty member in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Northeastern University and the Director of the Spatial Intelligence Research Group (SINRG). His research bridges spatial intelligence, XR/AI systems, computer networking, immersive communications, and wearable computing—aiming to enable low-power, real-time interaction with 3D environments at scale. He is the lead inventor of TVMC (Time-Varying Mesh Compression), holds multiple patents, and has published in premier venues such as ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, and USENIX NSDI. Dr. Dasari’s work spans both systems and algorithms, with contributions to mesh streaming, adaptive networking, and hardware-software co-design for XR. At Northeastern, he leads a graduate course on Networked XR Systems and mentors students in building open-source smart glasses and volumetric streaming platforms. Dr. Dasari is actively involved in shaping emerging standards for 3D content delivery and collaborates with industry consortia such as MPEG and the Alliance for Open Media. He earned his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, with prior roles at NEC Labs, AT&T Labs, and Bell Labs.