The National Academy of Inventors Dec. 8 announced its 175-person cohort of 2020 Fellows, including several Indian Americans and South Asian Americans among the group of global inventors.
Among the Fellows were Ananth Annapragada of the Baylor College of Medicine; Samuel Asirvatham of the Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic; Bir Bhanu of U.C. Riverside; Venkat Bhethanabotla of the University of South Florida; V. Chandrasekar of Colorado State University; Ramalingam Chellappa of Johns Hopkins University; Rajesh Dave of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; Anant Madabhushi of Case Western Reserve University; Mitzi Nagarkatti of the University of South Carolina; and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan of Pennsylvania State University.
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V. Chandra Chandrasekar and Susan James, both faculty members in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University, have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced Dec. 8.
The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Chandrasekar, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is also a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. He is a leading expert in the fields of weather radar and radar signal processing, and he holds 35 patents in radar system design, radar network development, radiofrequency communications, and more.