About: Dr. Suresh Borkar is a Senior member of faculty and chairperson, industry relations in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago since 2006. Previously, he was associated with AT&T/Alcatel-Lucent technologies, now Nokia Systems, in senior technical and management roles from 1980 to 2006. He has carried out leadership roles in product management, architecture, development, and customer management in Computer and Networking systems, Data systems, and Wireless systems. He received his B. Tech. in EE from IIT, Delhi and M.S. and Ph. D. in ECE from Illinois Tech., Chicago.