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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 September 2004

Batra and Sengupta
named as young innovators

Two TI engineers, Dr Anuj Batra and Dr Chaitali Sengupta, have been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation

The TR100, chosen by the Editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on today's world. This year's nominees are recognised for their contribution in transforming the nature of technology and business in industries such as biotechnology and medicine, computing, nanotechnology and telecommunications.

Anuj Batra, PhD, is a member group technical staff in the TI DSP Solutions Research and Development Centre.

In 2002, he helped start an ultrawideband (UWB) development effort within Texas Instruments.

UWB is a wireless technology for transmitting high-speed digital data over a large spectrum while consuming very low power.

UWB is ideally suited for wireless communications, particularly short-range and high-speed data transmissions for personal area networks (PANs).

UWB is well on its way to becoming a key wireless technology of the future, enabling applications such as wireless USB, wireless 1394 and wireless IP.

Dr Batra was the lead author for the ground-breaking multiband OFDM physical layer proposal for Texas Instruments, which was submitted to the IEEE802.15.3a task group standardisation as a proposal for the next generation wireless ultrawideband (UWB) based physical layer for very high speed communications.

The original proposal now serves as the fundamental baseline for the MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA) proposal, now supported by more than 170 companies in the PC, CE and mobile industries.

In addition to helping found the MBOA, Dr Batra serves as the Chairman of the System Definition Subgroup, which is responsible for the defining the specification that will serve as the basis for all new UWB MBOA-based wireless communications chips.

His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, in particular, the design of high-speed wireless networks, multi-user detection theory, and coexistence between unlicensed wireless devices.

Dr Batra holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cornell University, a master of science in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a PhD in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Chaitali Sengupta, PhD, is a senior member of the technical staff at TI, and has made innovative contributions to the field of wireless (3G) modem implementation.

High speed data coupled with wide area mobility provides a new level of communications ability that will open new markets, connect an unprecedented number of people, and stimulate economic growth.

3G wireless modems provide the high datarates that are powering cutting edge applications such as video streaming, video-conferencing and mobile Internet access.

Dr Sengupta's achievements include designing techniques for reducing power consumption and improving performance of 3G mobiles, and system design and verification of hardware coprocessors based modem architectures that are enabling software controlled yet high-datarate communication systems.

She has authored over 20 conference and journal papers and contributed to books, mainly in the area of efficient implementation of wireless systems.

A native of India, she holds a bachelor of technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and both a master of science in electrical engineering and a PhD in electrical engineering from Rice University.

The 2004 TR100's unparalleled panel of judges includes senior executives from the following organisations: Boston University, Caltech, Cambridge University, CombinatoRx, Concept2Company, Cornell University, General Electric, Geekcorps, Georgia Tech, Harvard Medical School, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft, MIT, Northwestern University, PureTech Ventures, Singapore Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, TIAX, Wharton, Xerox and YankeeTek Ventures.

'In the five years since we began naming our annual selection of the world's top innovators under age 35, inclusion among the TR100 has become one of the most prestigious awards for young innovators around the world', said David Rotman, Executive Editor of Technology Review.

'This year's winners are all pioneering fascinating innovations in the fields of biomedicine, computing and nanotechnology, and were chosen after a rigorous selection and judging process.

The result is an elite group whose visions and inventions will shape the future of technology'.

Dr Batra and Dr Sengupta will be honoured at Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT on 29th and 30th September 2004.

The event features keynotes, panels and breakout discussions on the transformative technological innovations that have the potential to fuel new economic growth and dramatically change the future.

Keynote speakers include Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and General Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers; Ray Kurzweil, renowned inventor, author and founder of Kurzweil Technologies; and Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors.

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