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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsAshok JhunjhunwalaAshok Jhunjhunwala is the Head in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. Dr Jhunjhunwala leads the team that developed corDECT, India's indigenous Wireless Local Loop technology that's winning accolades the world over. His research interests span Telecommunications, Computer Networks and Fibre Optics, and he's particularly active in developing cost-effective wireless telecommunications solutions.He is the fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, India. Dr Jhunjhunwala is the first recipient of the Prof S N Mitra Memorial Award (1995). In recognition of his contribution to the Engineering Sciences, he was awarded the S S Bhatnagar Award for the year 1998. Besides coordinating more than 50 projects and presenting over 75 papers at national and international conferences, he edits the Communication section of the Journal of IETE and has authored the book ‘Indian Mathematics’. Earlier, graduating with a B Tech (1975) from IIT Kanpur, he earned an MS (1977) and a PhD (1979) degree from the University of Maine, USA. After a two year stint as Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Washington State University, USA, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, India, in 1981 as Assistant Professor. Leading the Telematics and Optical Networks group, Dr Jhunjhunwala has supervised various research teams, directed several engineers and guided many research scholars.K GiridharK Giridhar received the BSc (Applied Sciences) degree from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, in 1985, and the ME, degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1989, and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, in 1993.He has also worked for a year each, as a Member of Research Staff at Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, and as a Research Affiliate in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, California. In 1994, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and currently, is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. His present research interests are in the areas of noncoherent and multiuser detection, space-time processing, and 3G wireless. He is involved in telecommunication product development activity based on the DECT Wireless in Local Loop system developed by IITM. Giridhar is also a visiting faculty at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh, and at Stanford University, California.