Ranjan Bose

Biography

He worked at Alliance Semiconductor Inc., San Jose, CA, as a Senior Design Engineer from 1996 to 1997. Since November 1997 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where currently he is the Microsoft Chair Professor. His research interests lie in the areas of secure communications, coding theory, ultra-wideband (UWB) communications, broadband wireless access and wireless security. He currently heads the Wireless Research Lab in IIT Delhi. His lectures on wireless communications form a part of the video courses offered by the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). He is also the national coordinator for the ongoing Mission Project on Virtual Labs, which enables students all over the country to perform lab experiments remotely. He is one of the founding members of Virtualwire Technologies, a start-up company incubated within IIT Delhi. He has held guest scientist positions at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and UNIK, Norway. Dr. Bose has published over one hundred and ten research papers in refereed journals and conferences, and filed for fourteen patents, including one granted US Patent. He received the URSI Young Scientist award in 1999, the Humboldt Fellowship in July 2000, the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineers Award in 2003, the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 2004, the BOYSCAST Fellowship in 2005 and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 2013. He is the author of the book titled Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography (2nd ed.). This book has an international edition and has also been translated into Chinese and Korean. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IETE Journal of Education. He is a senior member of IEEE (USA) and a Fellow of IET (UK). He has been the Head of Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management (IIT Delhi) in the past and is currently the Head of Center of Excellence in Cyber Systems and Information Assurance at IIT Delhi.

Research Interest

Wireless Communications, Broadband Wireless Access, Ultra Wideband Communications(UWB), Information Theory and Coding.