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Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
About Ashok Jhunjhunwala
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras at Chennai, India and has served as the departmental chair.He leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at IIT Madras.
- This group is closely working with industry in the development of a number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems.
- TeNeT group has incubated a number of technology companies (like DesiCrew Solutions) which work in partnership with TeNeT group to develop Telecom Access products.
- The group has also incubated a company which aims to install and operate telephone and internet in every village in India. He is a director on the board of State Bank of India.
- He is also a board member of several Telecom and IT companies in India, including Sasken, Tejas Networks and HTL, NRDC, and IDRBT.
- He is a former board member of VSNL & BSNL.
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