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Madhukar Pitke
Innovator in Telecommunications and IT
Biography
Prof. Madhukar Vishwanath Pitke, an esteemed scientist, has advanced telecommunications and IT with pioneering work in mobile network systems and central office switching technologies. His career spans over 35 years at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, where he also developed a significant parallel processor for weather research.
Prof. Pitke holds fellowships in multiple prestigious engineering institutes and serves as an Adjunct Professor at IIIT Bangalore. His contributions laid the technical groundwork for India's telecommunications revolution.
I am because...
"In the 1970s, I built a switching system for mobile networks before the world knew it needed one. Science moves forward because someone dares to build what doesn't exist yet."
— Madhukar Pitke
Conversations
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Sam Pitroda in conversation with Madhukar Pitke
A fireside chat exploring the moments, challenges and choices that shaped modern India.
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