Pramod Viswanath is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Unive ...

. He was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

(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 National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), also known as NITK Surathkal, formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), is a public technical university at Surathkal, Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while to ...

and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and

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

from the

UC Berkeley College of Engineering The University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering, branded as Berkeley Engineering, is the engineering wing of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1931, the ...

in 2000. Ever since joining the

, 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 Fellow Members of the IEEE Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{India-engineer-stub