Sivarama Venkatesan is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Wireless Research Domain of Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, in New Jersey. He holds a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has over 10 years of research experience in multiple-antenna (MIMO) techniques for cellular systems at Bell Labs, and holds several patents in the area.