Dr. Rohit Budhiraja

Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India

Rohit Budhiraja is currently an Associate Professor in IIT Kanpur, where he led the effort to design the indigenous 5G network. He is also currently leading the 5G and beyond standardization project from IIT Kanpur. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and 2015, respectively. From 2004 to 2011, he worked for two companies, where he designed, from scratch, both hardware and software algorithms, for WiMAX- and LTE-based cellular systems. His theoretical interests are in analyzing and optimizing state-of-the-art wireless systems.