Professor Tony Quek honored by IIT Bombay

IT Bombay has honoured Professor Tony Quek, a WWRF Member, as the winner of the Institute’s prestigious IIT Bombay International Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering and Technology. Professor Tony Quek stopped in Mumbai on his way to attend WWRF 52 Meeting in London where he made a Fellow of WWRF.

IIT Bombay award was established in 2022 through generous donations by alumnus Mr. Shantanu Rastogi (B.Tech., M.Tech., EE, Nanotechnology, 2002) and Mr. Sandeep Naik (Managing Director, Head of India and Asia Pacific, General Atlantic). The award acknowledges Dr. Quek’s stellar research and publications in the areas of wireless communications, particularly in ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and network intelligence.

Dr. Quek completed his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He has also received numerous awards for his work, including the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2020 Nokia Visiting Professorship, and the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.

Dr. Quek will lead a talk discussion titled “My Personal Research Experience and Research Pathway,” where he will share insights from his educational journey, his research work at MIT, his career at A*STAR, his faculty role at SUTD, and his directorship of the Future Communications R&D Programme.

Join us on September 4, 2024, at 5:15 p.m. onwards for the Institute Colloquium in Room No. 22, 2nd Floor, VMCC, IIT Bombay.

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