Neelesh B. Mehta is an Indian communications engineer, inventor and a professor at the Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering of the

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who studies

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Biography

Neelesh Mehtha was born on 9 January 1975. He won the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad at the state level in 1991 and the next year, he was selected for the National Talent Search Scholarship which helped fund his undergraduate work at the

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from 1992 to 1996. He earned his MS in engineering in 1997 from

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and won the AT&T World Leadership Award in the process. He continued at the institution for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Andrea Goldsmith of

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and after securing a PhD in electrical engineering in 2000, he started his career in 2001 as a research scientist at

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. Mehta's stay in the US would last till 2007 during which period, he also worked with

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(2002–03) and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003–07). He returned to India in September 2007 to take up the position of an assistant professor at the Electrical Communication Engineering Department of the

where he was appointed associate professor since 2011. His has focused on

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wireless networks,

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modeling and co-operative communications, with special focus on the design, invention, and performance analysis of various technologies. Mehta is a former member-at-large of the

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(2014–15) and served as the director of corporate publications during 2012–13. He has been associated with three of its journals, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, serving as the executive editor of the last mentioned. MIMO with building

Awards and honors

Mehta received the Young Engineer Award of the

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in 2010. The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2013; a year later the academy would honor him again with the 2014 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award. The same year, the Department of Science and Technology selected him for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, the tenure of the fellowship running until 2019. He became an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2015 and a Featured Engineer of

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, the next year. He received one more award in 2016 in the form of Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award of Physical Research Laboratory. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the

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, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2017. The following year, Mehta became a laureate of the

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by the ''

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''.

Selected bibliography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mehta, Neelesh B. Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science 1975 births Living people Engineers from Karnataka IIT Madras alumni California Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science AT&T people Mitsubishi Electric people Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India 20th-century Indian inventors 21st-century Indian inventors