Complex sentence: MIscha Schwartz is the Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he was the founding Director (in 1985) of the NSF-sponsored Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR).
Split into simpler sentences: MIscha Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He was the founding Director (in 1985) of the NSF-sponsored Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR).