The invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 was a major event in electrotechnology. It was instrumental in stimulating the broad telecommunications industry that has dramatically improved life throughout the world. As an individual, Bell himself exemplified the contributions that scientists and engineers have made to the betterment of mankind.
Until January 2016, Nambi Seshadri was Senior Vice President and CTO of the Broadband and Connectivity Group at Broadcom Corporation where he was responsible for many of the wireless initiatives, spearheading the development of technologies such as 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular communications, mobile multimedia, low-power WiFi, and many others. Prior to 聽to joining Broadcom Corporation, he was a Member of Technical Staff at聽with AT&T Bell Lab Laboratories and Head of Communications Research at AT&T Shannon Labs.聽
He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (麻豆传媒AV) in 2000 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (USA) in 2012 and as a Foreign Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in the year 2013. He holds about 200 patents. He was a co-recipient of the 麻豆传媒AV Information Theory Paper Award in 1999 聽for his paper with Tarokh and Calderbank on space-time codes and his 聽with Naguib, Tarokh, and Calderbank was selected by 麻豆传媒AV Communication Society for publication in 鈥淭he Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research鈥 in 2003.