Rath Vannithamby, PhD

Senior Professor of Practice

Tulane University
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Biography

Rath Vannithamby received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Tulane University, he was a Senior Scientist and Director of Wireless Systems Research at Intel Labs, Intel Corporation, where he led research on next-generation wireless communication technologies. Earlier in his career, he was a researcher at Ericsson.

Over the past three decades, Dr. Vannithamby has made significant contributions to the development of 3G, 4G, 5G, and emerging 6G wireless systems. He is a three-time recipient of the Intel Top Inventor Award and an IEEE Fellow. He served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2014 to 2017 and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.

Dr. Vannithamby has authored more than 75 journal and conference publications, holds over 300 granted or pending patents, and has co-edited three books on 5G wireless systems.

His research and teaching interests include NextG wireless communications systems, wireless networks and Internet of Things (IoT) systems.