Biography 235px|IIT Delhi R. K. Mallik, born in November 1964 in Kolkata, the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal to Radharaman Mallik and Tapati, earned a BTech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1987. His higher studies were at the University of Southern California from where he completed an MS in electrical engineering in 1988 and followed it up with a PhD in 1992. Returning to India, he joined Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad the same year as a Grade C Scientist and worked there for two years till his move to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1994 as a lecturer. His stay at IIT Kharagpur lasted till 1996 during which period he served as an assistant professor during 1995–96. His next move was to the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati as an assistant professor and in 1998 he shifted his base to Delhi to join the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi where he serves as a professor  . In between, he held the IRDC Research Chair in Wireless Communications from 2009 to 2015, the Jai Gupta Chair from 2007 to 2012, and the Brigadier Bhopinder Singh Chair from 2012 to 2017. He is also associated with Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management of IIT Delhi as a faculty. Mallik is married to Sumona Dasgupta and the couple has one child, Upamanyu . The family lives in Delhi .
Biography 235px|IIT Delhi R. K. Mallik, born in November 1964 in Kolkata, the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal to Radharaman Mallik and Tapati, earned a BTech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1987. His higher studies were at the University of Southern California from where he completed an MS in electrical engineering in 1988 and followed it up with a PhD in 1992. Returning to India, he joined Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad the same year as a Grade C Scientist and worked there for two years till his move to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1994 as a lecturer. His stay at IIT Kharagpur lasted till 1996 during which period he served as an assistant professor during 1995–96. His next move was to the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati as an assistant professor and in 1998 he shifted his base to Delhi to join the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi where he serves as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering . In between, he held the IDRC Research Chair in Wireless Communications from 2009 to 2015, the Jai Gupta Chair from 2007 to 2012, and the Brigadier Bhopinder Singh Chair from 2012 to 2017. He is also associated with Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management of IIT Delhi as a faculty. Mallik is married to Sumona DasGupta and the couple has one child, Upamanyu .
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