Monisha Ghosh

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Monisha Ghosh
NationalityIndian-American
EducationPh.D. in electrical engineering, B.Tech.
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
TitleCTO of US Federal Communications Commission

Monisha Ghosh is an electrical engineer. She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015[1] for her contributions to cognitive radio and signal processing for communication systems.

On December 22, 2019, Ghosh was appointed as the first woman chief technology officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission.[2]

She holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991. She is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.[3] She is also a research professor at the University of Chicago.

She served as a rotating program director at the National Science Foundation from September 2017 to December 2019 in the Computer and Network System Division within the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Previously, she worked at InterDigital, Philips Research and Bell Laboratories.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2015 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.
  2. ^ a b "Indian-American named 1st woman CTO of US' communications commission". Business Standard. December 22, 2019.
  3. ^ "Indian-American Dr Monisha Ghosh named 1st woman Chief Technology Officer of US' communications commission". The Economic Times. December 22, 2019.