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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.
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, Los
Angeles.
As the head of networked computing research department, 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. This system helped establish
AT&T’s ASIC business by supporting a ‘right the first time’ reputation
in the market place. MARS systems were deployed in AT&T/Lucent
Microelectronics for design verification and testing of hundreds of large and
complex production chips with over a million transistors. The flexibility and
cost advantages of MARS over commercial accelerators earned it the company’s
1994 CAE Product of the Year Award.
After having worked in every possible avtar of Bell Laboratories, Prathima is
now the assistant vice president of Internet Architecture Research Laboratory
and executive director of Computer Networking Research Department at Telcordia
Technologies. During her illustrious career spanning over decades, Prathima has
to her credit some 30 articles in refereed journals and periodicals as well as
over 100 papers in conference proceedings. She also holds 24 US patents.
Patents apart, there has been no dearth of accolades for this lady. She was
elected an IEEE Fellow in 1989 and a Fellow of Institution of Electronic and
Telecommunication Engineers of India in 1986. She also served as an advisor,
under the United Nations Development Program to the Indian Telephone
Industries. n