Ranjan Bose is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He did his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and his M.S. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He then worked at Alliance Semiconductors Inc. as a Senior Design Engineer. Since November 1997, he has been with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, as a faculty member. Dr. Bose frequently lectures on coding and cryptography. Dr. Bose was awarded the URSI Young Scientist award in 1999 and the Humboldt Fellowship in July 2000.

The author can be contacted at rbose@ee.iitd.ac.in.