Alfred Festus Davidson
Alfred Davidson received the B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, USA, under the guidance of Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy.
His current research interests include the design of integrated circuits & systems for next-generation communication paradigms, and the mathematical formulation and co-optimization of the RF/mmWave, analog and digital sections of the hardware implementations of these paradigms.
Alfred was part of the S.N. Bose Scholars Program in 2019 that sponsored a research internship at Columbia University. He was also awarded the Sri. V Srinivasan Memorial Prize for the student with the best academic record in the Dual Degree (B.Tech. & M.Tech.) Class of 2020, the Prof Achim Bopp Endowment Prize for the best hardware project in Electrical Engineering and the Teaching Assistant Recognition Award (TARA) during his Dual Degree program at IIT Madras. He was the recipient of the Columbia University Presidential Fellowship in 2020 and the Master of Science Award of Excellence in 2022.