Nambi Seshadri ‘84
Senior Vice President
& General Manager,
Mobile Platform Solutions
Chief Technology Officer,
Mobile and Wireless
Business Unit.
Broadcom Corporation.

Nambi Seshadri has been responsible for many of the wireless strategic initiatives at Broadcom Corporation including entry of Broadcom into cellular. Prior to joining Broadcom Corporation, he was with AT&T Labs and Bell Labs where he and his colleagues made a number of pioneering contributions to cellular including error control coding, link layer protocols, and invention of space-time coding, all of which have been rapidly adopted in cellular and 802.11 as a means of providing increased robustness and higher data throughput.

His publication on space-time codes was chosen by IEEE Communications Society as one of the 50 most influential papers published in the past 50 years as of 2003. He was also a co-recipient of the 1999 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award.

He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Nambi Seshadri received a B.E. from NITT in Tiruchirapalli, India in 1982 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Rensselaer in 1984 and 1986 respectively.