Ashok Jhunjhunwala

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name = Ashok Jhunjhunwala


caption = Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
birth_date = birth date|1953|6|22|mf=y
birth_place = Kolkata, India
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field = Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
work_institution = Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, TeNeT Group
alma_mater = IIT Kanpur, University of Maine
Prizes = Padma Shri (2002)Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai, India and has served as the departmental Chair. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur, and his MS and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT Madras.

Dr. Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at IIT Madras. This group is closely working 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 telephone and internet in every village in India.

Dr. 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 Networks and HTL, NRDC, and IDRBT. He is a former board member of VSNL & BSNL.

Awards:
* Recipient of the 1st Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award, IETE, 1995
* Finalist Best of the Show for NovaSwitch 2400 Ex, InterOp + Networld'96, Las Vegas, USA
* Prize and Trophy for the Best Product on Fibre Optics Educator Kit at Elecrama 1996, Bangalore
* Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997 towards the contributions and achievements in the field of Electronics, Informatics, Telematics & Automation
* For the Sake of Honour Award by Rotary Club of Madras Central for the year 1998-99 towards the achievements in the field of Electronics, Telecommunications
* Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Sciences for the year 1998
* Distinguished Alumnus by IIT Kanpur, September 1999
* Millennium Medal by CSIR during Indian Science Congress held in January 2000 at Pune
* Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Lecture for the year 2001 by The National Academy of Sciences, India
* Received Rajasthan Shree Award from Rajasthani Association Tamilnadu, August 2001
* Received Silicon Indian Leadership Award for "Academic of the year 2001", California
* Padma Shri Award 2002 for distinguished service in science and engineering, telecommunications
* H. K. Firodia Award for excellence in Science & Technology for the year 2002
* Dataquest IT Pathbreaker Award for the year 2003 on 19th December 2003 at New Delhi
* Outstanding Academician Award 2003 Instituted by Sarsawathi Ammal Educational Trust at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai on 26th December 2003
* "Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry" (FICCI) Award for the year 2002-03 for the significant work in the category of "Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Based Industries" by the Hon'ble President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at FICCI's 76th Annual General Meeting, New Delhi on 7th January 2004

Fellowships:
* Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, India since 1994
* Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi since 1999
* Fellow of The National Academy of Science, Allahabad since 1999
* Governor, International Council for Computer Communication Inc., (ICCC), 1999 - 2005

External Links and Sources

* [http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromPersonIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedPersonId=878939 Forbes Bio]
* [http://www.tenet.res.in/Aboutus/People/Faculty/personalPages/ashok.php Tenet Bio]
* [http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/people/faculty/ashok.html IITM Bio]
* [http://www.acacia.org.za/jhunjhunwala.htm Acacia bio]
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/mar/27inter.htm News article about Dr. Jhunjhunwala]