Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi got his B.Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D is Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. After working at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a couple of years, he joined the faculty of his alma mater in 1986. He served as Director, IIT Madras during 2011-21. He was the Zoho Chair in the EE department of IIT Madras. He is now Professor Emeritus in the same department.

His areas of specialisation are Communications and Signal Processing. His research work is in Wireless Networks, Modulation, Wireless Data, and Audio and Video Compression. He heads the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, located at the IIT-M Research Park, which is focused on emerging wireless standards and technologies. He is a holder of several patents related to 4G and 5G technologies and was the national co-ordinator for the project to build an end-to-end 5G Test Bed.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE, and Hon. Fellow of RWTH Aachen, Germany.

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During his long career, Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi has held the following leadership positions:

(i) Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2011-2022)
(ii) Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,IIT Madras
(iii) Hon. Director, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, IITM Research Park, Chennai 600 036
(iv) Chairman, IIT Madras Research Park (a sec 8 company) (2011-2022)
(v) Chairman, IITM Incubation Cell (a sec 8 company) (2011-2022)
(vi) National Coordinator Indigenous IITM 5G Test-Bed
vii) Chairman, Telecom Standards, Development Society of India (2020-2022) (viii) Member, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(ix) Member of the Board, Tejas Networks Ltd.
(x) Member of the Board, Bharat Electronics Ltd.