and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1982 and 1985 respectively.
He was awarded the University of California Regents Fellowship during his doctoral studies.
[3] After obtaining his doctorate, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs for two years before joining the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras in 1986, where he served as director from 2011 to 2022.
He served as the Dean of Planning at IIT Madras before taking over the role of director in September 2011.
[5] He is the principal architect of corDECT wireless local loop system and Broadband corDECT Wireless DSL System, widely deployed in India and 15 countries.