Philips Research Press Release
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March 9, 2005
Philips announces Electronic Engineering Times Annual Creativity in Electronics Nominee at Philips Research |
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Dr. Sai Shankar N and team nominated as Innovator of the Year
Briarcliff Manor, NY, March 9 -- Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG), announces today that Dr. Sai Shankar N of Philips Research USA, Briarcliff Manor, NY, was nominated as the Innovator of the Year in the Electronic Engineering Times First Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards. The award is for those who bring leadership, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to a technology, a product or a business. Dr Sai Shankar is one of the prime inventors of the new Multi Band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol along with Mr. Javier del Prado Pavon of Philips Research USA and Dr. Joerg Habetha of Philips Research Germany. The EE Times ACE Awards were created to recognize the people, companies and products that show leadership in the electronics industry and honors those who are leading the way and making positive contributions -- the real innovators of technology. UWB is a wireless technology that will provide up to 480 Mb/s and a range of 10 meters. With such high speeds, the contents of a Compact Disk (CD) can be transferred in less than 20 seconds. This functionality comes with low power consumption and cost, thus enabling UWB to be embedded in many consumer devices, such as cameras, MP3 players, and CD players, and, PC peripheral devices using Wireless USB (WUSB), such as hard-disks and displays. |
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Sai Shankar N received his PhD degree from the department of
Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India. In 1999 he joined Philips Research in
Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 2001 he joined Philips Research USA,
Briarcliff Manor, NY and is currently working in the area of MAC
protocols for Ultra Wide Band and Cooperative Communications. He is
an active contributor to the wireless LAN standard in IEEE 802.11e.
He is also an active participant in the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) MAC
working group of the Multi-Band OFDM Alliance. He serves as Adjunct
Professor at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He was recently
named Senior Member of IEEE. He has authored more than 35 conference
and journal papers, 25 accepted standard contributions and has more
than 30 filed patents.
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Javier del Prado Pavón received his MS Degree in Telecommunication
Engineering from the Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria de
Telecomunicacio de Barcelona in the Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He is currently pursuing his second MS
degree in Telecommunication Networks at the Polytechnic University
of NY. In 2001 he joined Philips Research USA, as part of the
Wireless Communications and Networks Department. He is part of the
MBOA MAC Specification committee. He was Chair of the Scientific
Committee in Wi-Fi Voice 2004 and technical program committee member
of the BroadWise'04 Workshop. del Prado has been an active
contributor in the IEEE standards. He has more than 40 filed patents
and authored numerous publications.
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Joerg Habetha received an engineering diploma degree of Ecole
Centrale Paris in 1996
and from Aachen University of Technology, Germany, in 1997 in the
double diploma program
Top Industrial Managers for Europe. He also holds a diploma for
Business Administration of Aachen University. From 1997 to 2000 he
was researcher at Aachen University, where he completed a PhD thesis
on wireless ad hoc networks. Since 2000 Dr. Habetha is with the
Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany, where he is
currently senior scientist and project leader. He has received
several awards, among them the Vodafone development prize for Mobile
Communications 2003. Dr. Habetha actively contribues to the
standardization of WLAN and WPAN systems.
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For further information please contact: Ellen de Vries |
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