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Sumit Roy

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Sumit Roy

Guest Processor, Electrical Engineering

  • BTech: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1983
  • MS: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985
  • MA: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988
  • PhD: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988



  • Selected Publications

    1. “A System to Cancel Ghosts in NTSC Television Transmission”, (with J. Yang and C. B. Patel) U.S. Patent No. 5361102, Nov. 1994.

    2. “Improved Deghosting for Multipath Transmission of TV Signals,” (with J. Yang and C. B. Patel), U.S. Patent No. 5341177, Aug. 1994.

    3. “Time Frequency Coding in a Multi-Band UWB System,” (with J. R. Foerster and V.S. Somayazulu, Intel Corpn.), U.S. Patent No. 7613223, Nov. 2009.

    4. “Apparatus and Associated Methods to Introduce Diversity in a MultiCarrier Channel,” (with L. Shao and S. Sandhu), U.S. Patent No. 7782970, Aug. 2010; U.S. Patent 8289836, Oct. 2012.

    5. “Achieving Quality of Service in a Wireless Local Area Network,” (with R. Gupta), U.S. Patent No. 8144613, Mar. 2012.

    6. “Adaptive Uplink Protocol” (with Y-C. Ko), U.S. Patent No. 8223664, July 2012.

    7. “Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Quiet Period Management in Wireless Networks for Co-existence,” (with Chittabrata Ghosh and Klaus Doppler), U.S. Patent No. 0070605, Mar. 2013.

  • Work Experience

    • Guest Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Mar 2024 – Present)

    • Program Lead, Innovate Beyond 5G, 5G-to-xG Initiative, US DoD (OUSD R&E) (Sep 2020 – Aug 2022)

    • Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Sep 2002 – Present)

    • Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Sep 1998 – Sep 2002)

  • Awards

      1. NATO STO SET-302 Technical Panel U. Washington Term Professor Fellow, IEEE
      1. Science Foundation of Ireland Royal Acad. Engineering (UK) Best Student Paper Award

Research Interests

  • ● Beyond 5G (mobile cellular, satellite and WiFi)
  • ● Internet of Things
  • ● Autonomous and Software-Defined Networks