Anushree Verma is a Director Analyst at Gartner with the Emerging Technologies and Trends group. She is responsible for developing research around Metaverse, Silicon photonics and Advanced sensing. Her core areas of research are Metaverse, data center networking semiconductors, biometric sensing, wired interfaces and optical modules like transceivers for 100G/400G. She also categorized the evolving technology of SmartNICs, Data Processing Unit (DPU) and defined it as Function Accelerator Cards (FACs). She advises product leaders on emerging technologies and trends, technology and product roadmap development, product messaging and positioning, go-to-market strategy, and competitive landscapes in in semiconductor companies, Metaverse vendors across technology markets.