Pramod Viswanath is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. He was named

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(IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to the theory and practice of wireless communications''. Viswanath received his bachelor's degree from

National Institute of Technology Karnataka The National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), also known as NITK Surathkal and formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), is a public technical university located in Surathkal, Mangalore, Mangaluru. Established in ...

and Ph.D. degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

from the

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in 2000. Ever since joining the

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, he has held important positions at various levels. He has a number of patents and research accomplishments to his name. He has also authored a number of books and research papers.

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* 20th-century births Living people Indian computer scientists Indian electrical engineers UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Fellows of the IEEE Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{India-engineer-stub