Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, born in 1953, is the Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras.

Ashok received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maine.

From 1979 to 1981, Ashok was a faculty Member at Washington State University and since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras, where he leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT). This group works with industry in the development of technologies relevant in India. It has incubated several technology companies and helped them to develop telecom, banking and energy products for Indian Urban and Rural Markets. Ashok's faculty is in charge of IITM Research Park and IIT’s Incubation Cell.

Ashok was awarded the Padma Shri in the year 2002. Ashok was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1998, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997, Millennium Medal in Indian Science Congress in the year 2000 and H.K. Firodia for 'Excellence in Science and Technology' for the year 2002. In 2004 Ashok was awarded the Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award for Science and Technology, the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award by INSA for the year 2006, IBM Innovation and Leadership Forum Award by IBM for the year 2006, and was recently awarded Honorary Doctorate by the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and Excellence in Science and Technology Award.

Ashok is a Fellow of World Wireless Research Forum, IEEE and Indian academies including INAE, IAS, INSA and NAS.

Ashok is a Member of the Board of Directors at Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited, Polaris, 3i-Infotech, Sasken, Tejas, Tata Communications, Exicom and Mahindra Reva Electrical Vehicles Pvt Ltd.

Ashok is also a Member of the Board of Directors at several educational institutes and section 25 companies including BIRAC.

Ashok is a Member of Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Committee.