Ramesh R. Rao is currently the director of the

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, a division of the

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. He was appointed as the first holder of the

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Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in 2004 in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the

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where he has been a faculty member since 1984.

Education

He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree with honors in electronics and communication engineering in 1980 from the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as

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)

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. He earned his Master of Science (M.S.) in 1982 and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in electrical engineering in 1984 both from the

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. In 2008, the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli awarded him their Distinguished Alumnus Award. Professor Ramesh Rao was educated at

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in the Indian state of now in Jharkhand which was earlier a part of Bihar.

Selected publications

* M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao : Geographic random forwarding (GeRaF) for ad hoc and sensor networks: multihop performance - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2 (4), 337-348 * V. Srinivasan, P Nuggehalli, C. F. Chiasserini, R. R. Rao : Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks - IEEE INFOCOM 2003. vol:2 pg:808 -817 * M. Zorzi, R. R. Rao : On the statistics of block errors in bursty channels - IEEE transactions on communications 45 (6), 660-667 * R. R. Rao, A. Ephremides : On the stability of interacting queues in a multiple-access system - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1988

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rao, Ramesh R. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni American people of Indian descent Indian electrical engineers University of Maryland, College Park alumni University of California, San Diego faculty