Nambirajan Seshadri is a professor of practice at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

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Education

Seshadri completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now called as

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, in 1982. He obtained his

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(M.S.) and

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(Ph.D.) degrees from

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, in 1984 and 1986 respectively.

Career

After completing his PhD degree, Seshadri worked at

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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

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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.

Awards

He is a

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, for contributions to theory and practice of reliable communications over wireless channels. He is a

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of the US

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, Foreign Member of the

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) was founded in 1987. It consists of India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The academy is registered under the Socie ...

, Distinguished alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli and holds about 200 patents. He is a co-recipient of the 1999 IEEE Information Theory best paper Award. In 2018, he was awarded the

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring ''"exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering"'' in the field of telecommunications. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Instit ...

References

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