Bio-Sketch of K. Giridhar

K. Giridhar is a Professor at the Indian Institute of 
Technology Madras(www.iitm.ac.in), Chennai.
He studied BSc (Applied Sciences) at PSG College of Technology, 
Coimbatore, ME (Electrical Communications) at Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, and received a PhD (Electrical 
Engineering) from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Between 1989-90, he was a member of research staff at 
CRL, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, and between 1993-94, was a 
research affiliate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 
University, California. Since 1994, he has been with 
the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras.

His research interests are broadly in the areas of adaptive
signal processing and wireless communications systems,
with an emphasis on various transceiver algorithms and custom 
air-interface design for strategic communications. 
More recently, his research group has focussed on efficient 
broadband wireless access in interference limited channels, 
as well as distributed radar signal processing.

Giridhar has been a consultant for many telecom and signal 
processing industries and research labs in India, and has taken 
sabbaticals with Beceem Communications, Bengaluru, in 2004-05, 
and with Data Patterns (India), Chennai, in 2018-19. He is a
founding Director of QallCover Communications LLP, Chennai, and
has been a visiting faculty at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of 
Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, and at Stanford University.