Subbarayan Pasupathy

Subbarayan Pasupathy (September 21, 1940 – February 12, 2023) was an Indian-Canadian electrical engineer and a professor emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto. He also served as the Chairman of the Communications Group and as the Associate Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto.

He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991. He was also the Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Early life and education Pasupathy was born in Chennai.

In 1963, he earned his bachelor's degree in telecommunications from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, which is currently recognized as Anna University.

Area of expertise Pas had expertise in several areas related to communication systems. These included developing digital communication systems that use bandwidth efficiently, applying statistical communication theory in different systems like array processing, signal processing algorithms, transceiver structures, mobile networks, and designing coding algorithms and architectures.

He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1991 for contributions to "bandwidth-efficient coding and modulation schemes in digital communication”.

Awards and recognitions Professional Engineer of Ontario Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 1991 Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research, 2003 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), since 2004 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), since 2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT, Madras, 2010

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