Prof. Dinesh Bhardia

(BT/EE/2010)

Prof. Dinesh Bharadia is an Associate Professor in the ECE department, and is inaugural Klein Gilhousen Chancellor’s Endowed faculty member with an affiliate appointment with the CSE department at the University of California, San Diego. He leads the Wireless Communication Sensing and Networking group (WCSNG), where his research focuses on building efficient, performant systems for sensing, computing, communicating, and securing the information in our connected world, solving real-world problems.

He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, his M.S and Ph.D from Stanford University in 2016, and was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. During his Ph.D at Stanford (Ph.D, 2016), Prof. Dinesh solved a long-standing open problem in wireless: enabling practical in-band full-duplex radios. By inventing architectures that cancel a radio’s own transmission (self-interference) across RF/analog and digital domains, his work showed that a single radio can reliably transmit and receive on the same frequency at the same time. This breakthrough opened new directions across communication theory, RF design, and systems, and sparked commercialization. As Principal Scientist at Kumu Networks (2013–2015), he helped bring fullAt UC San Diego, his research continues with the same spirit in areas of wireless imaging, battery-free connectivity, novel sensing modalities, NextG connectivity, sensing, privacy and security in connected systems, robotics, and medical applications; his work has accrued over 13,000 citations. His group, WCSNG, has attracted funding from the NSF, industry partners, and DoD programs, supporting a vibrant team of over 40 students at any given time. His research is licensed and translated by several startups, and he advises multiple companies; lab innovations have influenced products at Haila, Kumu Networks, and Totemic Labs. Several of his former Ph.D students and postdocs now hold faculty positions at leading U.S. universities.

Prof. Dinesh Bharadia has received global recognition, including being named to the Forbes Worldwide 30 Under 30 (Science) list, being a Marconi Young Scholar, being featured in MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35, receiving the Michael Dukakis Leadership Award, and being a recipient of the Kailath Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Honouring his stellar contributions in the fields of Advancing Wireless Communication and Networked Sensing and Translational Research, IIT Kanpur confers upon Prof. Dinesh Bharadia the Young Alumni Award 2025.