Driving Technology, Policy and Education in India

April 29 2024, ICSR IIT Madras

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Welcome

Technology, policy, and education have to come together for sustained and continued growth and success of any country and its citizens. In India, premier educational institutions such as the IITs and their associated ecosystem have a unique stature and opportunity for meaningfully impacting all three of these pillars of growth.

This one-day workshop aims to bring together experts from industry, institutions, and agencies for talks, discussions, and interactions on various instances where premier educational institutions have led interventions in technology, policy, and educational outreach.

As part of the conference, we will recall and learn from the contributions of Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Former Director, IIT Madras, who is superannuating in April 2024, in all three of these areas.

Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Bhaskar Ramamurthi (IEEE fellow) received the B.Tech. degree in electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. At Santa Barbara, he was the recipient of the Regents' fellowship. After a stint with the Wireless Research Group, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill, NJ, USA, he joined his alma mater in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1986.

He took over as the Director of the Institute in September 2011. His research interests include wireless communications with a focus on cellular systems, and signal processing as applied to audio and video signals. He set up and has since headed the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, IITM Research Park. He has assisted start-ups incubated at IITM to develop new wireless technologies, particularly those matched to Indian requirements.

He has served on several committees of the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, as a Technical Expert in mobile communications. He is currently an Institute Professor at IIT Madras.