InterDigital’s Ravikumar Pragada Bestowed the IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award for Critical Contributions to 5G
June 30 2022 - 4:00AM
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile and video technology
research and development company, today announced that Ravikumar
Pragada, Senior Principal Engineer and Senior Director in
InterDigital’s Future Wireless North America Lab, has been awarded
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
esteemed Benjamin Franklin Key Award for the significant
contributions he and the Lab have made to 5G wireless research and
technology evolution. The Benjamin Franklin Key Award celebrates an
electrical engineer within IEEE’s Philadelphia Section for
outstanding technical innovation and contributions to technologies
that have significant practical applications, with an emphasis on
tangible achievements that demonstrate intellectual, industrial,
economical or human benefits.
Recognized for his leadership in pioneering key elements in the
evolution of radio access connectivity throughout generations of
cellular wireless systems, Mr. Pragada maintains a long career of
pre-standards research and innovations that have shaped
groundbreaking system architectures. In fact, Mr. Pragada was a
trailblazer for leveraging the potential of millimeter wave
(mmWave) spectrum and beam-based designs in radio access networks.
He led the development of InterDigital’s EdgeHaul mmWave
mesh-backhaul system and encouraged adoptions of critical mmWave
cellular system architectures. mmWave is foundational to 5G and is
crucial to achieving the high speed and ultra-low latency
requirements that underpin the 5G use cases that will transform the
technology landscape for businesses in Philadelphia and worldwide.
Mr. Pragada continues to lead efforts on furthering higher
frequency research for cellular systems, currently focused on
sub-THz spectrum which a key contender for 6G.
“We congratulate Ravikumar for this well-deserved recognition of
his long career of significant technology contributions and the
ways his research leadership and contributed innovations have
fundamentally shaped the networks being commercially deployed
today,” said Milind Kulkarni, Head of Wireless Labs, InterDigital.
“At InterDigital we pride ourselves on our visionary work in
wireless and radio communications and video technologies, and
Ravikumar’s years of research expertise and industry collaboration
have truly helped define the foundations upon which our 5G future
is being built.”
All winners of the IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key award will be
featured on the IEEE Philadelphia website and honored at the IEEE
awards banquet in the fall.
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InterDigital® InterDigital develops
mobile and video technologies that are at the core of devices,
networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry’s
most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions
for more efficient broadband networks, better video delivery, and
richer multimedia experiences years ahead of market deployment.
InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of
the world’s leading technology companies. Founded in 1972,
InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ.
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Inc.
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