Monisha Ghosh

Professor, Electrical Engineering at University of Notre Dame

Speaker

Monisha Ghosh is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the Policy Outreach Director for SpectrumX, the first NSF Center for Spectrum Innovation and the co-chair of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) Working Group on Advanced Spectrum Sharing. Her research interests are in the development of next generation wireless systems, with an emphasis on spectrum sharing and coexistence, and leveraging insights from extensive measurements of real-world network deployments, both cellular and Wi-Fi. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame in 2022, she was the Chief Technology Officer at the Federal Communications Commission, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, Research Professor at the University of Chicago and spent 24 years in industry research at Bell Labs, Philips Research and Interdigital working on a wide variety of wireless systems: HDTV, Wi-Fi, TV White Spaces and cellular. She obtained her BTech from IIT Kharagpur in 1986 and PhD from USC in 1991. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.