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Dr.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala
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Professor
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ESB 331B
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Madras
Chennai - 600 036
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+91 - 44 - 2257
4408 (O)
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| Ph.D. From: |
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University of Maine,
USA
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ashok[AT]ee.iitm.ac.in
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http://www.tenet.res.in/ashok.html
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Areas
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- Optical Communications
- Computer networks
- Wireless Comunication
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Most
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Awards: |
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Awards
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Recipient
of the 1st Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award,
IETE, 1995
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Awarded
Finalist Best of the Show for NovaSwitch
2400 Ex, InterOp + Networld'96, Las Vegas,
USA
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Awarded
the Prize and Trophy for the Best Product
on Fibre Optics Educator Kit at Elecrama
1996, Bangalore
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Awarded
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the
year 1997 towards the contributions and
achievements in the field of Electronics,
Informatics, Telematics & Automation
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Awarded
For the Sake of Honour Award by Rotary Club
of Madras Central for the year 1998-99 towards
the achievements in the field of Electronics,
Telecommunications
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Awarded
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for outstanding
contributions in the field of Engineering
Sciences for the year 1998
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Awarded
Distinguished Alumnus by IIT Kanpur, September
1999
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Awarded
Millennium Medal by CSIR during Indian Science
Congress held in January 2000 at Pune
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Awarded
for Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Lecture for the
year 2001 by The National Academy of Sciences,
India
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Received
Rajasthan Shree Award from Rajasthani Association
Tamilnadu, August 2001
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Received
Silicon Indian Leadership Award for "Academic
of the year 2001", California
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Awarded
Padma Shri Award 2002 for distinguished
service in science and engineering, telecommunications
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Awarded
H. K. Firodia Award for excellence in Science
& Technology for the year 2002
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Awarded
Dataquest IT Pathbreaker Award for the year
2003 on 19th December 2003 at New Delhi
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Awarded
the Outstanding Academician Award 2003 Instituted
by Sarsawathi Ammal Educational Trust at
Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai
on 26th December 2003
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Awarded
the "Federation of Indian Chambers
of Commerce and Industry" (FICCI) Award
for the year 2002-03 for the significant
work in the category of "Outstanding
Contribution to Knowledge Based Industries"
by the Hon'ble President of India, Dr. A.
P. J. Abdul Kalam at FICCI's 76th Annual
General Meeting, New Delhi on 7th January
2004
Fellowships:
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Fellow
of the Indian National Academy of Engineering,
India since 1994
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Fellow
of Indian National Science Academy (INSA),
New Delhi since 1999
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Fellow
of The National Academy of Science, Allahabad
since 1999
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Governor,
International Council for Computer Communication
Inc., (ICCC), 1999 - 2005
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Most
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Publications
in Refereed Indian Journals:
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Ashok
Jhunjhunwala, "Drivers of
Telecom in India", IETE Technical Review,
Vol.20, No.4, July-August 2003, pp 279-287
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Ashok Jhunjhunwala, "Challenges
in Rural Connectivity for India", ASCI
Journal of Management, Vol 31(1&2);
March 2002
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Ashok
Jhunjhunwala, Devendra
Jalihal and K.
Giridhar, "Wireless in
Local Loop - Some Fundamentals", Journal
of IETE, Vol 46, No 6, November-December
2000
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Ashok Jhunjhunwala, "Enhancing
throughput of existing Railway Networks
using Information and Communication Technology
(ICT)", National Connectivity Vision
: Surface Transportation and Communication,
20th January 2001
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Ashok Jhunjhunwala, "Looking
Beyond NTP ’99" Journal of Bitcom
India, Vol.I, No.1, January 2000, New Delhi
Publications
in Refereed Foreign Journals:
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Ashok
Jhunjhunwala, P. R. Goundan,
"Evaluation of Relative Merits /
Demerits of different Signalling schemes
used at a Railway Station for an approaching
train in Indian Railways today",
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
1999
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Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Bhaskar
Ramamurthi, "The Role
of Technology in Telecom Expansion in
India", IEEE Communication Magazine,
0163-6804/98, November 1998
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Ranjani Parthasarathi and Ashok
Jhunjhunwala, "Multiple-Precision
Square-Root using the Straight Square-Root
Algorithm", Journal of Systems Architecture,
Vol.44, 1997, pp 143-158
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Ranjani Parthasarathi and Ashok
Jhunjhunwala, "Design Tool
for Symbolic Substitution" Optical
Engineering, Vol.35, No.11, November,
1996, pp 3313-3322
- Ranjani
Parthasarathi and Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
"Techniques for Efficient Implementations
of Symbolic Substitution using one of may
Coding", Optical Engineering, Vol.35,
No.10, October, 1996, pp 2830-2837
Number of
Text Books / Monographs Authored or Co-authored:
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Fibre Optic Educator User Manual
Publishing Company: Comptec
Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Madras
Year of Publication: 1988
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Indian Mathematics – An Introduction
Publishing Company: Wiley
Eastern
Year of Publication: 1993
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Chapter on "Indian Telecom & Internet
Tangle – What is the Way Out?",
in Emerging Communication Technologies And
Society, p.nos.29-42, Edited by N.Balakrishnan
of INSA
Publishing Company: Narosa
Publishing House, New Delhi
Year of Publication: 1999
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Towards Enabling India through Telecom and
Internet Connections, New Millennium Lectures
: Celeberation of Science, CSIR, pp. 81
– 108, 2000
Publishing Company: National
Institute of Science Communications, New
Delhi
Year of Publication: 2000
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Towards Enabling India through Telecom and
Internet Connections
Publishing Company: New
Millennium Lectures : Celeberation of Science,
CSIR, pp. 81 – 108
Year of Publication: 2000
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
"Looking Beyond NTP'99", page
No.210, India Infrastructure report 2001
by IDFC, IIM and IIT Kanpur
Publishing Company: IDFC,
Chennai
Year of Publication: 2001
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Telecommunications Reform in India "Strategies
for Rapid Telecommunications and Internet
Growth"
Publishing Company: Greenwood
Publishing Group, Inc. USA
Year of Publication: 2002
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Name
of Author: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Title of Text Book / Monograph:
Taking Internet Connections to Rural India
Publishing Company: Book
titled Technology Enabled Flexible Education
& Development
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of
Text Books / Monographs Edited:
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Special
issue on Telematics for Journal of IETE,
Vol.39, No.5, March-April, 1993
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Special
issue of Journal of Scientific & Industrial
Research, January, 1995
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Special
Issue of the IETE Journal of Research on
Wireless Technologies, 2001
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