In her own words "It is the quest for an opportunity to
play significant and fundamental roles in shaping the creation, transmission and
delivery of information anywhere on the face of this planet and beyond"
that brought Prathima Agrawal to Telcordia Technologies after two decades of
path breaking work at Bell Laboratories. She is now teaching at Samuel Ginn.
Distinguished professor and director, Wireless Engg. Research and Education
Center, Alabama, US.
After receiving her BE and ME degrees in electrical
communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India, Prathima completed her PhD in electrical engineering from the University
of Southern California, LA.
Prathima, along with her fellow researchers, invented a multiprocessor
architecture, known as MARS (microcomputer architecture for rapid simulations)
for designing large and complex VLSI circuits accurately and efficiently.
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