Dr. Sendil Devar

Co-Chairs- Spectrum Group
5GIF

Sendil Kumar is currently responsible for leading standardization and spectrum engagements in India. He works closely with the national, regional and global working groups related to standards and spectrum matters. He actively contributes in developing national preparatory views towards the ITU-R, APT, AWG and WRC. He actively contributed in the IMT-2020 Evaluation process and in the development of rural test environment requirements in IMT2020. At Ericsson, he is focused on future spectrum issues that are subject of the World Radio Conference and support for technical studies.
Prior to Ericsson, he worked with research organizations including Samsung R&D, Centre of Excellence of Wireless Technology and Telecom Centre of Excellence. He had contributed to standardization development in both 3GPP2 and 3GPP for HRPD, HSDPA, LTE. He also has a career stint as a mentor in a patent service organization dealing with patents for 4G standards and high-tech industries. He was awarded Ph.D. degree in Wireless Communication from Indian Insititute of Technology, Madras.