Neelesh B. Mehta (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He is a recipient of the J. C. Bose Fellowship, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, the Khosla Award, the Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, and the Swarnajayanti Fellowship. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society from 2012 to 2015. He was a member of the Executive Editorial Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2014 to 2017 and served as its Chair from 2017 to 2018. He also served as the Chair of the journal’s Steering Committee. He currently serves on the IEEE Communications Society’s Nominations and Elections Committee. He has previously served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

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