Nambirajan Seshadri is a professor of practice at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

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Education

Seshadri completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from

Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Tiruchirappalli or NIT Trichy) is a public technical and research university near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded as Regional Engineering College Tiruchirapp ...

(now called as

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, in 1982. He obtained his

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(M.S.) and

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(Ph.D.) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

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, in 1984 and 1986 respectively.

Career

After completing his PhD degree, Seshadri worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as Member of Technical Staff and as Head of Communications Research at AT&T Shannon Labs for more than 13 years. After that, he worked in

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for 16 years. In Broadcom, he served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Mobile and Wireless Business from 1999 to 2014 and Senior Vice President and CTO of Broadband and Connectivity Group from 2015 to 2016.

Awards

He is a

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, Foreign Member of the

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, Distinguished alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli and holds about 200 patents. He is a co-recipient of the 1999 IEEE Information Theory best paper Award. In 2018, he was awarded the

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References

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