Suresh Borkar, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Office: Siegel Hall 142
3301 South Dearborn Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312.567.3880
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email:
borkar@iit.edu
Web:
Expertise
- 3G Wireless, Computer Architecture, Probability and Random Variables, Switching Theory, Reliability Theory, Hardware Testing
Education
- B.Tech., EE, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, 1966
- M.S., ECE, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1967
- Ph.D., ECE, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1972
Research
Dr. Borkar's primary professional experience has been in Computers, Telecom Networks, and Wireless systems while he was at Lucent Technologies since 1980. In the computers and networking areas, he has contributed to fault recovery, operating system, and networking software, performance, systems engineering, architecture, and product management. In the Telecom Networks, he has been very active in call processing, routing, communications protocols, and real time and distributed Operating systems developments. He has also been responsible for development of packet networks and integration, testing, and delivery of the 3G Wireless systems.
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
3G/4G Wireless – Advances and Challenges, Distinguished Faculty Seminar, IIT, Chicago , 2006Opportunities and Challenges - Long Distance Communications, Telecomm Conf, New Delhi, India, 1999
Convergence and the Telecom Infrastructure, Telecommunications Conference , India , 1999
Next Generation Telecommunications Networks, CII, India , 1999
R/Evolution of Data Networks, Communications Journal , India , 1999
Wireless Data Access, Comdex Conference, New Delhi , 1999
Communications Scenario in the 21 st Century, Computer Journal , India , 1998
Platform Technology for Multimedia Applications, with P. Bajpai & W. Brouwer, Multimedia Conference , India , 1998
Future Broadband Services and Technology, with C. Liu, CommsIndia Conference, 1997