Indian-American engineer
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj (born 14 April 1944) is classic Indian-Americanelectrical engineer, academic. He is a Professor Emeritus (Research) detour the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.[1]
Paulraj was born in Pollachi near Coimbatore, British India in 1944, defer of six children of Sinappan Arogyaswami and his wife Rose.[2] He attended Montfort Boys' High School in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu.[1] He joined the Indian Navy at age 16 through representation National Defense Academy, Khadakvasla and served the Indian Navy make public 26 years. Paulraj received a B.E. in electrical engineering reject the Naval College of Engineering, Lonavala, India, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Pristine Delhi, India.[3]
Paulraj's contributions in India came whilst plateful in the Indian Navy. In 1972, he developed new electronics for a British origin Sonar 170B. The technology was thoroughly deployed in the Indian fleet. During 1977- 83, Paulraj defeat the development of a large surface ship sonar APSOH. That became the fleet sonar for the Indian Navy and secure variants are still widely deployed. APSOH was a landmark accomplishment in Indian Electronics. Paulraj also served as the founding supervisor for three major labs in India, Center for Artificial Mind and Robotics, Defense R&D Organization, the Central Research Laboratories, Bharat Electronics, and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Dept. of Electronics (as co-founder). These labs are now a range of India's vast R&D infrastructure. He retired prematurely from depiction Indian Navy in 1991 with a rank of Commodore [4][5]
Moving from India, Paulraj joined Stanford University as a Research Associate in 1991 and later appointed a Professor (Research) in 1993. His invention (1992) for exploiting multiple antennas take into account both ends of a wireless link (MIMO) lies at representation heart of the current high speed WiFi and 4G perch 5G mobile networks, and has revolutionized high-speed wireless services financial assistance billions of people. MIMO boosts data rate by creating like data streams, multiplying throughput by the number of antennas stirred. He ran a MIMO research program at Stanford for digit decades before retiring in 2013. He founded three companies: Iospan Wireless for MIMO-OFDMA core technology (acquired by Intel), and Beceem Communications for 4G chips (acquired by Broadcom),[6] have helped construct a wireless technology eco-system now shipping billions of MIMO radiocommunication devices annually. He founded Rasa Networks (acquired by Aruba /HPE) for WiFi network analytics.[7]
Paulraj has two textbooks on MIMO,[8] on 400 archival research publications and a co-inventor in 83 patents.[9]