Dr. Kumar N Sivarajan

Ex-Chairman and current Governing Council Member at TSDSI

Dr. Kumar has nearly three decades of experience in the field of telecommunications. He was the first chairperson of the governing council of Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) which is an organizational partner of 3GPP, the global standards body responsible for formulating 5G standards. He has co-authored the bestselling book titled "Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective". Prior to joining Tejas, he was an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an M.S and PhD from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (Caltech).