Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Fields Electrical engineering
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Alma mater University of California, Santa Barbara, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Known for Wireless communications, corDECT standard

Bhaskar Ramamurthi is an Indian academician who is the current director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He took on the role in 2011 succeeding M. S. Ananth.[1]

Career

Bhaskar Ramamurthi obtained his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras in 1980 and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After obtaining his doctorate, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs for two years before joining the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras in 1986, where he is now a professor. He served as the dean of planning at IIT Madras before taking over the role of director in September, 2011.[2]

He conducts research on topics in modulation and coding for mobile communications, wireless communication networks and design and implementation of wireless local loop systems. He is one of the founding members of the Telecommunications and Computer Networking Group (TeNeT) group at IIT Madras.[3] He is the principal architect of corDECT Wireless local loop System and Broadband corDECT Wireless DSL System, widely deployed in India and 15 countries. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 2000.[4] He was recently elected fellow of IEEE.

Awards and Honours

Bhaskar Ramamurthi was honoured with Doyens of Madras-2014 award. [5]

Bhaskar Ramamurthi has been elected as an IEEE Fellow. (effective on 1 January 2015.)

References

  1. ↑ "Former student of IIT–Madras becomes its director". The Hindu. September 23, 2011. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  2. ↑ "Scientific Indian". The Hindu. September 29, 2011. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  3. ↑ "Home page at TeNeT group". Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  4. ↑ "Biography" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  5. ↑ "‘Doyens of Madras’ honoured". The Hindu. August 24, 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
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