Nikil Jayant

He obtained his PhD in Electrical Communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.

While at Georgia Tech, he co-founded two video communications companies for advancing elastic compression and automatic quality assessment.

His research at Georgia Tech also included partnerships with Emory University in digital pathology and informatics.

He has been inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame and named a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science.

Dr. Jayant served as the Chair of a National Academies study that resulted in a policy-influencing report by the National Research Council, "Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits".This article about a United States engineer, inventor or industrial designer is a stub.