Nambirajan Seshadri

Nambirajan Seshadri is a professor of practice at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego.[1]

Nambirajan Seshadri
Born
India
CitizenshipUnited States (Naturalized)
Alma materNational Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (BE)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS, PhD)
OccupationProfessor Of Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering
OrganizationUniversity of California, San Diego
AwardsAlexander Graham Bell Medal (2018)

Education

Seshadri completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now called as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), India, in 1982. He obtained his Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States, in 1984 and 1986 respectively.[2]

Career

After completing his PhD degree, Seshadri worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as Member of Technical Staff and as Head of Communications Research at AT&T Shannon Labs for more than 13 years. After that, he worked in Broadcom for 16 years. In Broadcom, he served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Mobile and Wireless Business from 1999 to 2014 and Senior Vice President and CTO of Broadband and Connectivity Group from 2015 to 2016.[3]

Awards

He is a Fellow of IEEE,[4] Member of the US National Academy of Engineering,[5][6] Foreign Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Distinguished alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli[7] and holds about 200 patents.[8] He is a co-recipient of the 1999 IEEE Information Theory best paper Award.[9] In 2018, he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.[10]

References
  1. "Nambirajan Seshadri". jacobsschool.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. "Nambirajan Seshadri | Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering". www.ecse.rpi.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  3. "Nambirajan Seshadri". CHM. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  4. "IEEE Fellows Directory - Alphabetical Listing". services27.ieee.org. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  5. "Dr. Nambirajan Seshadri". NAE Website. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  6. "National Academy of Engineering Elects 66 Members and 10 Foreign Associates". www8.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  7. "DAA Recipients for 2008-09". National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  8. "Nambirajan Seshadri Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  9. "Space-time Codes for High Data Rate Wireless Communications: Performance Criterion and Code Construction — Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  10. "Nambi Seshadri Awarded IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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