- Arogyaswami Paulraj
Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj was born in Coimbatore, India. He joined the
Indian Navy at age 15 through theNational Defence Academy , Kharakvalsa and served the Navy for 30 years. He is currently a Professor at the Dept. of Elect. Engineering,Stanford University . Paulraj is the pioneer of a break throughwireless technology known as MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) that dramatically increases performance of wireless systems.Fact|date=February 2007 MIMO is now the core technology in latest WiFi and WIMAX systems.and Robotics] [http://www.drdo.org/labs/ecs/cair/index.shtml] ), CDAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing), and CRL (Central Research Labs of Bharat Electronics). He has won over a dozen defense and national awards in India.Fact|date=February 2007 He is also a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
After joining Stanford University in 1992, he created a new field of
smart antenna s and MIMO wireless.Fact|date=February 2007 He has published 2 text books, over 350 research papers and is a co-inventor on 30 US patents. He has won a number of awards including the IEEE Technical Achievement award and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.He founded Iospan Wireless in 1999 to develop MIMO-OFDMA technology and the company was later was acquired by Intel Corp. in 2003. He also co-founded Spectrum Infotech Ltd. in Bangalore which was acquired by L&T in 2006. In 2004 he co-founded Beceem Communications Inc., a company dealing in
WIMAX wireless chip technology.Paulraj sits on several university, company and advisory boards in US and in India. He is married to Nirmala Paulraj, and has two daughters.
External links
[http://www.stanford.edu/~apaulraj/ Stanford page]
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