Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Electrical engineering
Institutions	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Barbara, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Known for	Wireless communications, corDECT standard

Bhaskar Ramamurthi is an Indian academician who is the current director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He took on the role in 2011 succeeding M. S. Ananth.

Bhaskar Ramamurthi obtained his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras in 1980 and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After obtaining his doctorate, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs for two years before joining the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras in 1986, where he is now a professor. He served as the dean of planning at IIT Madras before taking over the role of director in September, 2011.

He conducts research on topics in modulation and coding for mobile communications, wireless communication networks and design and implementation of wireless local loop systems. He is one of the founding members of the Telecommunications and Computer Networking Group (TeNeT) group at IIT Madras. He is the principal architect of corDECT Wireless local loop System and Broadband corDECT Wireless DSL System, widely deployed in India and 15 countries. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 2000. He was recently elected fellow of IEEE.

Bhaskar Ramamurthi was honoured with Doyens of Madras-2014 award.

Bhaskar Ramamurthi has been elected as an IEEE Fellow. (effective on 1 January 2015.)

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