Vu Reddy

Biography

Vellenki Umapathi Reddy received BE, MTech and PhD from Osmania University, IIT Kharagpur and the University of Missouri, respectively. He held a brief assignment with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel (1970) and University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago (1971-72) before joining IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor in 1972. He moved to IIT Kharagpur in 1976 as a Professor of Radar and Communication. He was Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (1979-82). Thereafter, He worked at the Osmania University as Professor/Project Director of Research & Training Unit for Navigational Electronics (1982-88). He then moved to Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore as Professor of Electrical Communication Engineering. After retiring from IISc in 2001, he held positions as CTO (2001-03) & Chief Scientist with Hellosoft India Pvt. Ltd (2006-08), Microsoft Chair Professor (2003-05) and Institute Professor (2007-2010) with IIIT, Hyderabad, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), with CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, UOH Campus, Hyderabad (2010-2012) and Honorary Professor, with IIT, Hyderabad (2013-) . During 1988-99, he held several visiting appointments with the Stanford University, the University of Iowa and the Research Centre Imarat at Hyderabad.

Research Interest

Signal Processing and Communications