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Ashish Chatterjee

Personal philosophy:
I am a strong believer in life-long learning, and admire students who take on additional educational challenges beyond those at home and work. I hope that I can ignite and stoke the intellectual flames in my students that will enable them to learn on their own throughout their lives.

Biography:
I have been at the nexus of business and technology for more than two decades. During this time I have been an independent worker, manager as well as an entrepreneur. I have specialized in the knowledge domains of data- and telecommunications (wireline, wireless, optical), computer science and physics.

The trajectory of my work life has taken me to Xerox (copiers and computer science), Digital Equipment Corporation (Manager of the Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering and Architecture), Gould/Modicon (industrial automation and controls), Bolt Beranek & Newman (distributed, interactive simulation/visualization), AT&T/Lucent (optical networking), and Cingular Wireless (mobile computing). My entrepreneurial ventures, or those that I supported, were in the areas of healthcare informatics, electronic design automation tools, applications of remote-ID technology and personal video-conferencing.

My education includes an Executive MBA from the University of New Hampshire, a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Idaho and Master’s degrees in physics from the University of Washington and the Indian Institute of Technology. I have also received post graduate training in computer science from the CII-Honeywell-Bull Training Institute in France.

I am a member of the Optical Society of America and the MIT Enterprise Forum RFID SIG.

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