Ramjee Prasad was born in Babhnaur (Gaya), India, on July 1, 1946. He is now a Dutch citizen. He received his B.Sc. (eng.) from the Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India, and his M. Sc. (eng.) and Ph. D. from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, India, in 1968, 1970, and 1979, respectively.

He joined BIT as a senior research fellow in 1970 and became an associate professor in 1980. While he was with BIT, he supervised a number of research projects in the area of microwave and plasma engineering. From 1983 to 1988, he was with the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania, where he became a professor of telecommunications in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1986. At UDSM, he was responsible for the collaborative project Satellite Communications for Rural Zones with Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. From February 1988 through May 1999, he was with the Telecommunications and Traffic Control Systems Group at DUT, where he was actively involved in the area of wireless personal and multimedia communications (WPMC). He was the founding head and program director of the Center for Wireless and Personal Communications (CWPC) of International Research Center for Telecommunications – Transmission and Radar (IRCTR).

Since June 1999, Dr. Prasad has been with Aalborg University, where currently he is Director of Center for Teleinfrastruktur (CTIF), and holds the chair of wireless information and multimedia communications. He is coordinator of European Commission Sixth Framework Integrated Project MAGNET (My personal Adaptive Global NET). He was involved in the European ACTS project FRAMES (Future Radio Wideband Multiple Access Systems) as a DUT project leader. He is a project leader of several international, industrially funded projects. He has published over 500 technical papers, contributed to several books, and has authored, coauthored, and edited sixteen books: CDMA for Wireless Personal Communications, Universal Wireless Personal Communications, Wideband CDMA for Third Generation Mobile Communications, OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications, Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems, WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet, Towards a Global 3G System: Advanced Mobile Communications in Europe, Volumes 1 & 2, IP/ATM Mobile Satellite Networks, Simulation and Software Radio for Mobile Communications, Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet, Multicarrier Techniques for 4G Mobile communications, OFDM for Wireless Communications Systems, Technology trends in Wireless communication, WLANs and WPANs towards 4G, Applied Satellite Navigation Using GPS, Galileo and Augmentation Systems, all published by Artech House. His current research interests lie in Wireless networks, packet communications, multiple-access protocols, advanced radio techniques, and multimedia communications.

Dr. Prasad has served as a member of the advisory and program committees of several IEEE international conferences. He has also presented keynote speeches, and delivered papers and tutorials on WPMC at various universities, technical institutions, and IEEE conferences. He was also a member of the European cooperation in the scientific and technical research (COST-231) project dealing with the evolution of land mobile radio (including personal) communications as an expert for The Netherlands, and he was a member of the COST-259 project. He was the founder and chairman of the IEEE Vehicular Technology/Communications Society Joint Chapter, Benelux Section, and is now the honorary chairman. In addition, Dr. Prasad is the founder of the IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology (SCVT) in the Benelux, and he was the symposium chairman of SCVT’93. Presently, he is the Chairman of IEEE Vehicular Technology Communications / Information Theory Society Joint Chapter, Denmark Section.

In addition, Dr. Prasad is the coordinating editor and editor-in-chief of the Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications and a member of the editorial board of other international journals, including the IEEE Communications Magazine and IEE Electronics Communication Engineering Journal. He was the technical program chairman of the PIMRC’94 International Symposium held in The Hague, The Netherlands, from September 19-23, 1994 and also of the Third Communication Theory Mini-Conference in Conjunction with GLOBECOM’94, held in San Francisco, California, from November 27-30, 1994. He was the conference chairman of the fiftieth IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference and the steering committee chairman of the second International Symposium WPMC, both held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from September 19-23, 1999. He was the general chairman of WPMC’01 which was held in Aalborg, Denmark, from September 9-12, 2001, and of the first International Wireless Summit (IWS 2005) held also in Aalborg, Denmark on September 17-22, 2005.
Dr. Prasad is also the founding chairman of the European Center of Excellence in Telecommunications, known as HERMES. He is a fellow of IEE, a fellow of IETE, a senior member of IEEE, a member of The Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and a member of IDA (Engineering Society in Denmark). Dr. Prasad is advisor to several multinational companies. He has received several international awards; the latest being the “Telenor Nordic 2005 Research Prize” (website: http://www.telenor.no/om/).