Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Professor - Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, India
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Ashok Jhunjhunwala, born in 1953, is the Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras. Ashok received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, Ashok was a faculty Member at Washington State University and since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras, where he leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT). This group works with industry in the development of technologies relevant in India. It has incubated several technology companies and helped them to develop telecom, banking and energy products for Indian Urban and Rural Markets. Ashok's faculty is in charge of IITM Research Park and IIT’s Incubation Cell. Ashok was awarded the Padma Shri in the year 2002. Ashok was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1998, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997, Millennium Medal in Indian Science Congress in the year 2000 and H.K. Firodia for 'Excellence
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