Prof. Rajesh Zele

Rajesh H Zele (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 1989, the M.S.E.E. degree from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1994.

In 2016, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, as a Professor, after over two decades of industry experience. Before joining IIT, he was the Director at MaxLinear, Carlsbad, CA, USA, developing the next-generation CMOS RF and mixed-signal system on chips for digital cable and satellite communications. He was the Vice President of Mindtree, Pune, India, leading the team for Bluetooth and short-range wireless transceivers. He founded the startup Alereon Semiconductors Pune to develop ultrawideband radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless USB products. Before Alereon, he was the Director of Engineering at Zilker Laboratories, Austin, TX, USA, developing power management products. He established the Austin Design Center for the startup FET and managed the technical team responsible for 10-Gb/s optical networking products. He also has an extensive background in wireless transceivers at Motorola, Austin, and Plantation, FL, USA, where he was an integrated circuit design manager for the Talk-About radio platform.

He has co-authored over 25 articles and a book chapter, and he holds eight U.S. patents. His research interests include RF, analog, and mixed-signal IC design for communications applications. Dr. Zele served as the Professor-in-Charge for IIT Bombay Research Park and as a board member for the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay's startup initiative. He received the Best Paper Award at VLSID 2023 and the Excellence in Teaching Award for his past five-year performance. He has presented talks at various IEEE conferences and symposiums, and he currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS).