Robert T. Braden (28 January 1934[1] – April 2018[2]) was an American computer scientist who played a role in the development of the Internet.

He taught programming and operating systems courses at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and also UCLA, where he moved next.

He spent 1981–1982 at the Computer Science Department of University College London.

He was active in the ARPAnet Network Working Group, contributing to the design of the File Transfer Protocol in particular.

When IAB task forces were formed in 1986, he created the End-to-End Task Force, later known as the IRTF End-to-End Research Group, which he chaired and later ran as a networking community mailing list for a number of years.