Ram Viswanadha joined the ICU team in 2000. Since graduating from Indiana State University with MS in Robotics and Computer Science, he worked with projects at FedEx and Lotus in distributed learning management systems, been associated with Lotus LearningSpace 4. His contributions in ICU include, various character set converters, Indic transforms, StringPrep & IDNA implementation and tools for XLIFF support. He is also actively involved in Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project.