A Brief Biography

Pas S. Pasupathy was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India, on September 21, 1940. He received the B.E. degree in telecommunications from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai (now known as Anna University) in 1963, and the M. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1966 and the M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and applied science from Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., in 1970 and 1972, respectively. His Ph.D thesis was in the area of Sonar and was done under the supervision of Professor Peter Schultheiss.

From 1965 to 1967, he was a Research Scholar and Part-Time Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and worked as a Teaching Assistant at Yale University, from 1968 to 1971. During 1972-1973, he was a Post doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada, working in the area of array processing of sonar signals. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto, and became a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1983. He was the Associate Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1979 to 1982. He has also served as the Chairman of the Communications Group (1978--81, 1992--96). His research interests lie in the areas of communication theory, digital communications, and statistical signal processing.

Dr. Pasupathy is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario. During 1982-89, he was an Editor for Data Communications and Modulation for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. He has served as a Technical Associate Editor for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE (1979-1982) and as an Associate Editor for the Canadian Electrical Engineering Journal (1980-1983). He co-ordinated the Special Issue on 'Canadian Telecommunications' of the IEEE Communications Magazine, January 81 . From 1984 to 98, he wrote a regular humour column entitled "Light Traffic" for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE. He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 1991 " for contributions to bandwidth efficient coding and modulation schemes in digital communication". He received the 2003 Canadian Award in Telecommunication from the Canadian Society of Information Theory , was elected as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2004 and as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2007. He is rated as a "highly cited researcher" in a study conducted by the ISI Web of Knowledge and is listed in the ISIHighlycited Website.

Professor Pasupathy was a University of Toronto Coordinator of the Network Engineering Program (a joint offering by Northern Telecom and University of Toronto) during 1987--96.

Recent honours:

A workshop was held in honour of Pas S. Pasupathy at University of Toronto in May 2007 and the details can be found at this site . IEEE's "Institute" profiled Pas S. Pasupathy in its Jan 7, 2008 issue and the full article was also reproduced in the IEEE Toronto Section Newsletter . IEEE Communications Magazine also carried an article about him in the March 08 issue. He was honoured by I.I.T.Madras,India, his alma mater, in April 2010 as a Distinguished Alumnus; see citation of the Award.

Academic Genealogy: Pasupathy's Ph.D supervisor was Peter M. Schultheiss of Yale.His Ph.D supervisor was Felix Zweig. For a continuation of the genealogy, see here.

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