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City lad makes it to MIT

Staff Reporter

"It's all God's grace and the blessings of my parents and teachers."

In big league: Srujan Reddy's smile says it all.

HYDERABAD: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, is a dream destination for every engineering graduate across the globe. But only a few extremely talented enter the portals of the prestigious institute.

Srujan Reddy, a local lad, is one among the 180 students in the world to have made it to the MIT this year. And, the icing on the cake is that the admission has come with the Presidential Fellowship worth $56,040. He is one among the two who get the Fellowship every year.

Srujan, a B.Tech student from IIT-Guwahati, will pursue doctoral studies and is quite excited about it. "It's all God's grace and the blessings of my parents and teachers," says the former student of IIT Ramaiah and Ratna Junior College.

The creative talents of Srujan were visible quite early and the numerous awards like the `Young Scientist' and `Young Mathematician' stand testimony to his capabilities.

Stint at Switzerland

He continued his pursuits even at IIT-Guwahati and that resulted in an invitation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, when he was in third year of the course. There, he worked on developing new Algorithms for Phase Contrast Imaging. His research led to the development of efficient techniques for the imaging of soft tissues using X-rays and the work is likely to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, considered to be the most respected journal.

With keen interest in wireless communication systems, Srujan wants to complete his Ph.D in the same field and come back to India to set up an R&D Centre in Wireless Communication in Hyderabad.

Srujan earlier worked on Multiple Antenna Wireless Systems and Wireless Channel Modelling and developed new Super-Orthogonal Space-Time Codes that increase the link reliability. It has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions.

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