Ketan M. Patel was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1971.  In 1993, he received a B.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  While at UM for his undergraduate degree, Ketan led the design, test and construction of the electrical, propulsion and telemetry systems on the Maize & Blue solar car team, which in 1993 very successfully raced in Sunrayce and the World Solar Challenge in Australia.  In 1995, he received an M.S.E.E., also from The University of Michigan, specializing in optics and electromagnetics.

For the following three years, he worked in Dallas at Texas Instruments.While in the TI Defense and Systems Electronics Group GaAs facility (now TriQuint Semiconductor) he designed microwave integrated circuit (MMIC), which are currently being used for several communications systems including a various fiber optics and satellite systems.  Ketan is now (since 1998) pursuing his Ph.D. in E.E. at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in the Ultrafast Optical Communications Group.While in the UFOCL group, he has significantly contributed to the ultrafast optical demultiplexing work as well as ultrafast pulse generation with pedestal suppression.His own research interests are in the integration of RF/microwave and optics components.As part of the Yamacraw consortium initiative, his research topic is in the use of spatially resolved detection for compensation of differential modal delay in multimode fiber links.

Mr. Patel is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (LEOS and MTT).He can be reached at kmpatel5@ece.gatech.edu.Also available here is his Curriculum Vitae.