Dr. Monisha Ghosh ('86) joins University of Notre Dame Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Information provided by IIT Kharagpur Facebook Page (September 8, 2021)
Heartiest congratulations to one of the IIT Kharagpur alumni, Dr. Monisha Ghosh for joining the University of Notre Dame as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and being the newest member of the Wireless Institute in the College of Engineering!
Since January 2020, she was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), becoming the first woman to hold this position. Since 2015, Ghosh has also been serving as Research Professor at the University of Chicago, with a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratories.
Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Dr Ghosh worked extensively in industrial research and development at Interdigital, Philips Research, and Bell Laboratories. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991, and she graduated in B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1986. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and has over 77 scientific publications and 70 patents.
(View the article from the Notre Dame-Department of of Electrical Engineering webpage)
We ran an earlier article on Dr. Ghosh's appointment at the FCC: Dr. Monisha Ghosh ('86) Named First Female CTO at FCC