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Dr.David
Koilpillai
Academic
Background
Dr.David Koilpillai,received the B.Tech degree from
IIT Madras in 1984, and the MS and PhD degrees (all in Electrical
Engineering) from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
in 1985 and 1990 respectively.
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His dissertation work was done in the area of multirate DSP under
the guidance of Prof. P. P. Vaidyanathan. In 1990, David joined
the General Electric Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady, NY,
as a member of the Communications Group, working in different
areas of cellular, and land mobile radio communications. In 1994,
David was transferred to the joint venture Ericsson-GE Mobile
Communications, in Research Triangle Park, NC, as part of the
team supporting Ericsson's mobile phone development.
At Ericsson, David has held different technical and managerial
positions. Most recently, he was the Director of the Advanced
Technologies and Research Department and a member of the global
management team of Ericsson Mobile Platforms, an Ericsson company
developing all components of mobile phone technology. In this
role, he was responsible for an R&D team of 75 engineers developing
EDGE technology, with an annual operating budget of US $20 Million.
As part of his work at GE and Ericsson, David has undertaken extensive
technical and management training. His technical areas of expertise
include 2.5G/3G cellular systems, DSP techniques for wireless
communications, radio receiver architectures, and multirate DSP.
His technical contributions at GE and Ericsson have resulted in
19 US patents, 9 journal papers and 23 conference publications.
In 1999, David received the "Ericsson Inventor of the Year" award,
the highest technical recognition within Ericsson. In addition,
he has received numerous management awards for contributions in
the areas of technical management and intellectual property rights.
He has served as a technical expert for Ericsson in technology-related
litigations.
In June 2002, David joined IIT Madras as a Professor of Electrical
Engineering, and is a member of the TeNeT group.
Research
Interests
- DSP
- Wireless
Communications
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