indian American Dr Monisha Ghosh has been appointed as the first woman Chief technology Officer at the US government's powerful Federal Communications Commission. She will advise Indian-American Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai and the agency on technology and engineering issues, and work closely with the office of Engineering and Technology. Ghosh will take charge on january 13 next year.
She replaces Dr Eric Burger. The FCC regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the district of Columbia and US territories.
An independent US government agency overseen by congress, the FCC is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America's communications law and regulations. Prior to joining the university of Chicago in september 2015, she worked at Interdigital, Philips Research and Bell Laboratories on various wireless systems such as the HDTV broadcast standard, cable standardisation and cognitive radio for the tv White Spaces.
