Ramesh R. Rao

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 Ramesh R. Rao was born in Sindri, India in 1958. He did his undergraduate work at the Regional Engineering College of the University of Madras in Tiruchirapalli, obtaining a BE (Honors) degree in Electronics and Communications in 1980. He did his graduate work at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, receiving the MS degree in 1982 and the Ph. D. degree in 1984. Since then he has been on the faculty of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is currently Professor and Director of the San Diego Division of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology. In April 2004, he was named Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technology. His research interests include architectures, protocols and performance analysis of wireless, wire line and photonic networks for integrated multi-media services.

Prior to his appointment as the Director of the San Diego Division of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) he served as the Director of the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) and was the Vice Chair of Instructional Affairs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His activities within the University of California include contributing to the creation of UC Communications Research Program (CoRe), the UCSD Extension Certificate Program in Communications and co-ordinating two cycles of the ABET accreditation of the UCSD Electrical Engineering program.

His activities within the IEEE Information Theory Society include serving as the Publications Editor ('99 to '01), Web Editor ('95 to '99) and Newsletter Editor ('93 to '95). He also contributed to the IT Digital Library effort as well as the 1990 IT Symposium and the 1998 IT Workshop, both held in San Diego. He has been twice elected to serve on the Information Theory Society Board of Governors ('97 to '99 and '00 to '02).

Professor Rao was the Editor for Packet Multiple Access of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was a member of the Editorial Board of the ACM/Baltzer Wireless Network Journal as well as IEEE Network magazine. He has guest edited a special issue of the Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal on "Advances in Wireless Systems," a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication on "Multi-media Network Radios" and a special issue of the Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications journal on "Energy-Conserving Protocols In Wireless Networks."

He served as the General Chair of PIMRC 2001, the Technical Program Chair of the 1997 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications. He regularly serves as a member of the Technical Program Committees of conferences such as MOBICOM and INFOCOM, and as a reviewer for agencies such as the National Science Foundation.

His research activities have been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, the TRW Corporation, the Astroterra Corporation, the Industrial Affiliates of the Center for Wireless Communications, and Calit2. He has also consulted extensively for Government agencies and industry. He has served on a US Government panel to review the current status of research, development, and applications in wireless communications in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe with a view towards evaluating the competitive status of U.S. efforts.

Since 1984, Professor Rao has authored over 100 technical papers, contributed two book chapters, conducted a number of short courses and delivered invited talks and plenary lectures. He is currently supervising eight doctoral students.