Sanjai Kohli is an

electrical engineer 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

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

known for his work developing consumer Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. In addition to his recognition for GPS work, he founded multiple

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and is the CEO of MIPS Technologies (Wave Computing). His academic awards include the

European Inventor Award The European Inventor Award (formerly European Inventor of the Year Award, renamed in 2010), are presented annually by the European Patent Office, sometimes supported by the respective Presidency of the Council of the European Union and by the Eur ...

and

Fellow of the IEEE A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned or professional societies, the term refers ...

Work

Kohli's work developing a new GPS chip beginning in 1995 eventually led to the creation of the company

SiRF SiRF Technology, Inc. was an American pioneer in the commercial use of GPS technology for consumer applications. The company was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in San Jose, California. Notable and founding members included Sanjai Kohli, ...

, which went public in 2002. After SiRF was later acquired by the British company

CSR plc CSR plc (formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio) was a multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Its main products were connectivity, audio, imaging and location chips. CSR was listed on the London Sto ...

, Kohli's net worth exceeded $50 million according to ''

The Economic Times ''The Economic Times'' is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper. Owned by The Times Group, ''The Economic Times'' began publication in 1961 and it is sold in all major cities in India. As of 2012, it is the world's secon ...

''. Kohli was appointed as the CEO of Wave Computing in September 2019. He continued as CEO in March 2021, after the company emerged from

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Recognition

In 2010, Kohli and Steve Chen won the European Inventor Award from the

European Patent Office The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation

for their invention of the Chen-Kohli GPS chip (called the GPS Spread Spectrum Receiver) in 1995. His contributions led ''

The Times of India ''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...

'' to refer to him as "father of mass market GPS". He was named IEEE Fellow in 2012.

References

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