Ashok Jhunjhunwala

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Ph.D., is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (Chennai), India. He was Department Chair till recently. He has been teaching at IIT, Madras since 1981, where he now leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks (TeNeT) group at IIT Madras. This group works closely with industry in the development of a number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems. TeNeT group has incubated a number of technology companies which work in partnership with TeNeT group to develop world class Telecom Access products. The group has also incubated a company which aims to install and operate telephones and Internet connections in every village in India.

Ashok Jhunjhunwala was awarded the Padma Shri in the year 2002. He has been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1998, the Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997, the Millennium Medal at Indian Science Congress in the year 2000 and the H. K. Firodia for “Excellence in Science & Technology” for the year 2002. He is a Fellow of INAE, INSA and NAS and a member of the Prime Minister’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

Jhunjhunwala is a Director in the Board of SBI. He is also a Board member of several Telecom and IT companies in India, including Polaris, Sasken, Tejas and HTL, NRDC, and IDRBT. He has been Board member of VSNL & BSNL in the past.

From 1979 to 1981, he was an Assistant Professor at the Washington State University. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his M.Sc as well as his Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine, USA.

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