Department Chair & Ernest D. Butcher Professor
Rice University
Ashutosh Sabharwal is the Department Chair & Ernest D. Butcher Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Rice University. He works in two independent areas - wireless networks and digital health. His ongoing work in wireless focuses on joint wireless communications & imaging and large-scale experimental platforms. He is leading Rice RENEW (renew-wireless.org), which has developed and deployed an open-source massive MIMO wireless network platform. He also leads the Rice Digital Health Initiative (dhi.rice.edu); his digital health research focus is the development of devices and data science to quantify behavior-biology pathways across many diseases. He was awarded the 2017 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the 2018 IEEE Advances in Communications Award, the 2019 & 2021 ACM Test-of-time Awards, the 2019 ACM MobiCom Community Contribution Award, and the 2023 ICC Best Paper Award. His research has led to multiple startups and FDA-approved products. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and the National Academy of Inventors.
