Ranjan K. Mallik is an
Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, all in electrical engineering. He has worked as a scientist in the
Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, and as a faculty
member in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati. His research interests are in
diversity combining and channel modeling for wireless communications,
space-time systems, cooperative communications, multiple-access systems, power
line communications, molecular communications, difference equations, and linear
algebra. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the Hari Om Ashram
Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, the Khosla National Award, and the
J. C. Bose Fellowship. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, and a fellow of IEEE,
the Indian National Academies INAE, INSA, NASI, and IASc, TWAS, IET (U.K.), IETE
(India), and The Institution of Engineers (India). He served as an Area Editor and
an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and as an
Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was a TPC Co-Chair for
the Wireless Communications Symposium of GLOBECOM 2008 (New Orleans, Louisiana,
U.S.A.) and ICC 2010 (Cape Town, South Africa), a TPC Co-Chair for the PHY
Track of WCNC 2013 (Shanghai, China), and a TPC Co-Chair for the Communication
Theory Symposium of ICC 2021 (online).