Dr Bharat Doshi joined Bell Labs in 1979 as member of the technical staff. In 1983, he became technical manager and director in advanced communications technologies in 1994. He has worked on over 200 projects. His first assignment was to work on the development of voice-messaging service and his teams’ analysis and recommendations helped double the capacity of the system. Dr Doshi was also involved in designing a telecom network that could continue to operate during national emergencies, such as floods and hurricanes. His early work at Bell Labs also involved the development of overload controls for the 5ESS switch, disk-drive scheduling algorithms, mathematical techniques for production scheduling, and the frame relay protocol.

His technical leadership has been a key element in building up world-class technologies, recognized by the industrial as well as the academic community. His key responsibilities included performance, reliability, protocols, controls, software/hardware/network architecture and integrity of new telecom and computing technologies and products. Dr Doshi has also given innumerable keynote talks in Bell Labs technology seminars.

To his credit, he has 15 patents and more than 20 applied for in the areas of broadband networking, wireless networking and communication protocols. He has published over 110 papers in professional journals.

Dr Doshi, a BTech from IIT Bombay, and MS and PhD from Cornell University also taught in the statistics department of Rutgers University for about five years before joining Bell Labs. Besides work, he enjoys traveling, photography and reading. n