P Vijay Kumar
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Honorary Professor |
Brief Profile
P. Vijay Kumar received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1983, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1983 to 2003, he was on the faculty of the EE-Systems Department at USC. From 2003-2021, he was a Professor at IISc Bengaluru and since 2021, an Honorary Professor. In 2010-2017, he was an Adjunct Research Professor at USC and, from 2018-2020, a Visiting Professor.
His research interests in general lie in algebraic coding theory and related areas, with application to wireless communication, data storage and navigation satellite systems.
He is a recipient of the 1995 IEEE Information Theory Society Prize-Paper award and the IEEE Data Storage Best Paper Award of 2011/2012. A pseudorandom sequence family designed in a 1996 paper co-authored by him formed the short scrambling code of the 3G WCDMA cellular standard. The Indian Space Research Organization has incorporated the IZ4 family of spreading codes co-designed by him into the new civilian L1 signal of the NavIC navigation satellite system.
He received the USC School of Engineering’s Senior Research Award in 1994, the Rustum Choksi
Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering at IISc in 2013, and the 2017-22 J. C. Bose National
Fellowship awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, India. He was a Tata Chem Chair Professor at IISc from 2013-2015. He was on the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Information Theory (IT) Society in 2013-15, 2025-27, was a plenary speaker at
IEEE ISIT 2014, a TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ISIT 2015, and Chair of the IEEE IT Society Conference Committee (2019-21).
He is a Fellow of the INAE, IAS, and INSA Indian academies and a Fellow of IEEE (click here for a CV).