Radha Nagarajan is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Concurrently, he is also the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Marvell’s Optical and Copper Connectivity Group.
At Marvell, he manages the development of the company’s optical platform technology and products. He joined Marvell from Inphi where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Platforms. Prior to Inphi, he was a Fellow at Infinera, where his innovative designs resulted in the successful development and commercialization of InP photonic integrated circuits (PIC). Optical systems based on these PIC’s have been widely deployed in metropolitan and long-haul transport networks. In 2006, he was awarded the IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel Award, and in 2022 the IPRM (Indium Phosphide and Related Materials) Award, for his groundbreaking contributions to the development and manufacturing of large-scale photonic integrated circuits.
He continued his work in photonic integration, focusing on silicon technology, when he joined Inphi in 2013. His work resulted in the successful commercialization of the first DWDM, PAM4, Si photonics modules, which are deployed in data center interconnects. He has been awarded more than 230 US patents. He has authored/co-authored 200+ conference and journal publications and five book chapters in his various areas of specialization.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society) and a Fellow of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK). He is an alumnus of the National University of Singapore where he graduated with a B.Eng. (First Class Honors) in Electrical Engineering. He holds a M.Eng. from the University of Tokyo, with a scholarship from the Hitachi Foundation, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, both in Electrical Engineering. While at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he was also awarded the General Affiliates Dissertation (Ph.D.) Fellowship.