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'''Ronjon Nag''' is a British-American inventor and entrepreneur specializing in the field of mobile technology. He co-founded the technology company Lexicus, acquired by [[Motorola]] in 1993 and Cellmania, acquired by [[Research in Motion]] in 2010. He later served as Vice-President of both Motorola and [[BlackBerry Limited|BlackBerry]].
'''Ronjon Nag''' is a British-American inventor and entrepreneur specializing in the field of mobile technology. He co-founded the technology company Lexicus, acquired by [[Motorola]] in 1993 and Cellmania, acquired by [[Research in Motion]] in 2010. He later served as Vice-President of both Motorola and [[BlackBerry Limited|BlackBerry]].


==Education and Personal Life==
==Education and personal life==
Ronjon Nag received his bachelor's degree in 1984 from the [[University of Birmingham]], where he studied Electronic & Electrical Engineering.<ref>https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-eps/community/newsletter/Nov-2014/SD1114-EESE-Newsletter.pdf</ref> He received a Master of Science degree from MIT in Management Science and studied neural networks in Stanford University's Department of Psychology. After completing a Doctorate in Engineering at [[Cambridge University]], he studied as a [[Harkness Fellow]] in the United States at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and [[Stanford University]].<ref name="stanford.edu">{{cite web|url=http://dci.stanford.edu/ronjon-nag/|title=Ronjon Nag – Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute|work=stanford.edu}}</ref> He has since become a fellow of the [[Stanford University]] [[Distinguished Careers Institute]] and a Fellow of the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/wolfsoncollegecambridge/docs/wolfsonreview2018/112|title=The Wolfson Review|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref>
Ronjon Nag received his bachelor's degree in 1984 from the [[University of Birmingham]], where he studied Electronic & Electrical Engineering.<ref>https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-eps/community/newsletter/Nov-2014/SD1114-EESE-Newsletter.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> He received a Master of Science degree from MIT in Management Science and studied neural networks in Stanford University's Department of Psychology. After completing a Doctorate in Engineering at [[Cambridge University]], he studied as a [[Harkness Fellow]] in the United States at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and [[Stanford University]].<ref name="stanford.edu">{{cite web|url=http://dci.stanford.edu/ronjon-nag/|title=Ronjon Nag – Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute|work=stanford.edu}}</ref> In 2014 became a Fellow of the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]] and in 2016, he become a fellow of the [[Stanford University]] [[Distinguished Careers Institute]].

Nag is currently the Chairman of Embee Mobile, a company enabling market research on mobile devices,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.androidguys.com/2014/11/22/share-data-usage-stats-mobile-performance-meter-free-gift-cards-review/ |title = Share data usage stats with Mobile Performance Meter for free gift cards (Review)|date = 2014-11-22}}</ref> and
a co-founder of Payplant, an alternative finance platform.<ref>https://www.payplant.com/aboutus.html</ref> He also serves as chairman at Ersatz Labs, which specializes in machine learning.<ref>http://www.ersatzlabs.com/about/</ref> Nag serves on the boards of Bounce Imaging, which develops tactical cameras for the defense and security industry,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bounceimaging.com/team|title=Team|work=bounceimaging.com}}</ref> as well as Introhive, which creates sales automation software.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://dci.stanford.edu/ronjon-nag/ |title = Ronjon Nag}}</ref>


He divides his time between Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Silicon Valley in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/winners/achievement/mountbatten-winners.cfm|title=IET Awards - IET Conferences|work=theiet.org}}</ref>
He divides his time between Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Silicon Valley in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/winners/achievement/mountbatten-winners.cfm|title=IET Awards - IET Conferences|work=theiet.org}}</ref>


==Career in Technology==
==Career in Technology==
Nag's work has focused on inventing new systems for interacting with mobile devices, resulting in breakthroughs in the application of [[speech recognition]], [[handwriting recognition]], [[predictive text]] and [[touch screens]] for mobile devices.<ref name="fortune.com">{{cite web|url=http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/27/266196/index.htm|title=Motorola Lives! A year ago, Wall Street was writing Motorola's obituary. But the company changed its ways, and now the stock is very much alive. - September 27, 1999|work=fortune.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/06/12/cellmania-qualcomm-amdocs-wireless-in_nh_0612unwired_inl.html|title=Cellmania's Wireless Apps|first=Nikhil|last=Hutheesing|date=13 June 2006|work=forbes.com}}</ref> As a student at Cambridge University, Nag wrote an article applying a [[hidden Markov model]] to speech recognition, which became the basis for his Phd on the subject.<ref>{{Cite book | chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1168951/authors |doi = 10.1109/ICASSP.1986.1168951|chapter = Script recognition using hidden Markov models|title = ICASSP '86. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing|year = 1986|last1 = Nag|first1 = R.|last2 = Wong|first2 = K.|last3 = Fallside|first3 = F.|volume = 11|pages = 2071–2074}}</ref> In 1991 Ronjon Nag began researching artificial neural networks, first under [[Amar Gupta]] at MIT and then in Stanford University's Department of Psychology, studying under [[David Rumelhart]].<ref name="stanford.edu"/> In 1992, Nag co-founded the technology company Lexicus in Palo Alto, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/06/78275/index.htm|title=COMPUTERS THAT LEARN BY DOING Programs and chips that mimic the way the brain works are catching on in business. They spot credit card crooks, pick stocks, sort apples, and even drive cars. |date=September 6, 1993|work=fortune.com}}</ref> As CEO and as a computer scientist, Nag oversaw the emergence of Lexicus as an industry pioneer of speech and predictive technology systems<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/business/business-technology-computers-advancing-rapidly-back-to-the-pen.html |title = BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; Computers Advancing Rapidly Back to the Pen|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1993-01-06|last1 = Markoff|first1 = John}}</ref> and saw the acquisition of Lexicus by Motorola in November 1993.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/12/business/company-news-motorola-buys-handwriting-recognition-company.html |title = Company News; Motorola Buys Handwriting-Recognition Company|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1993-11-12}}</ref> As a subsidiary of Motorola, Lexicus introduced some of the first devices with Chinese handwriting and speech recognition.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/?id=XcEKP0ml18EC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=motorola+chinese+handwriting+recognition#v=onepage&q=motorola%20chinese%20handwriting%20recognition&f=false | title=PC Mag| publisher=Ziff Davis| date=1996-01-23}}</ref> In 1999, he founded Cellmania, a mobile infrastructure company that provided digital rights management for mobile content, enabling the creation of some of the first mobile app stores.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/2006/06/12/cellmania-qualcomm-amdocs-wireless-in_nh_0612unwired_inl.html</ref> Cellmania was sold to Research in Motion, now [[BlackBerry Limited]], in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.<ref name="stanford.edu"/>
Nag's work has focused on inventing new systems for interacting with mobile devices, resulting in breakthroughs in the application of [[speech recognition]], [[handwriting recognition]], [[predictive text]] and [[touch screens]] for mobile devices.<ref name="fortune.com">{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/27/266196/index.htm|title=Motorola Lives! A year ago, Wall Street was writing Motorola's obituary. But the company changed its ways, and now the stock is very much alive. - September 27, 1999|work=fortune.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/06/12/cellmania-qualcomm-amdocs-wireless-in_nh_0612unwired_inl.html|title=Cellmania's Wireless Apps|first=Nikhil|last=Hutheesing|date=13 June 2006|work=forbes.com}}</ref> As a student at Cambridge University, Nag wrote an article applying a [[hidden Markov model]] to speech recognition, which became the basis for his Phd on the subject.<ref>{{Cite book | chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1168951/authors |doi = 10.1109/ICASSP.1986.1168951|chapter = Script recognition using hidden Markov models|title = ICASSP '86. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing|year = 1986|last1 = Nag|first1 = R.|last2 = Wong|first2 = K.|last3 = Fallside|first3 = F.|volume = 11|pages = 2071–2074|s2cid = 58277721}}</ref> In 1991 Ronjon Nag began researching artificial neural networks, first under [[Amar Gupta]] at MIT and then in Stanford University's Department of Psychology, studying under [[David Rumelhart]].<ref name="stanford.edu"/> In 1992, Nag co-founded the technology company Lexicus in Palo Alto, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/06/78275/index.htm|title=COMPUTERS THAT LEARN BY DOING Programs and chips that mimic the way the brain works are catching on in business. They spot credit card crooks, pick stocks, sort apples, and even drive cars. |date=September 6, 1993|work=fortune.com}}</ref> As CEO and as a computer scientist, Nag oversaw the emergence of Lexicus as an industry pioneer of speech and predictive technology systems<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/business/business-technology-computers-advancing-rapidly-back-to-the-pen.html |title = BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; Computers Advancing Rapidly Back to the Pen|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1993-01-06|last1 = Markoff|first1 = John}}</ref> and saw the acquisition of Lexicus by Motorola in November 1993.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/12/business/company-news-motorola-buys-handwriting-recognition-company.html |title = Company News; Motorola Buys Handwriting-Recognition Company|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1993-11-12}}</ref> As a subsidiary of Motorola, Lexicus introduced some of the first devices with Chinese handwriting and speech recognition.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcEKP0ml18EC&q=motorola+chinese+handwriting+recognition&pg=PA36 | title=PC Mag| publisher=Ziff Davis| date=1996-01-23}}</ref> In 1999, he founded Cellmania, a mobile infrastructure company that provided digital rights management for mobile content, enabling the creation of some of the first mobile app stores.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/06/12/cellmania-qualcomm-amdocs-wireless-in_nh_0612unwired_inl.html|title = Cellmania's Wireless Apps|website = [[Forbes]]}}</ref> Cellmania was sold to Research in Motion, now [[BlackBerry Limited]], in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.<ref name="stanford.edu"/>

Nag is President of the [https://www.institute.r42group.com/ R42 Institute] which develops and funds AI and Longevity projects. Nag is also Chairman of Bounce Imaging, which develops throwable cameras undertaking video stitching whilst being thrown,<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Team|url=http://www.bounceimaging.com/team|work=bounceimaging.com}}</ref> winning the [https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Related_Throwable_Camera_Wins_1M_Verizon/ar58064 $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Prize in 2015].


==Awards==
==Awards==
In 2014 Nag was the recipient of the [[Mountbatten Medal]] awarded by the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]]. The award cited Nag's influence on the creation of the modern mobile phone industry with the development of smartphone components such as text and speech recognition and digital distribution platforms, technologies that were later incorporated widely into early smartphones developed by Motorola and BlackBerry.<ref>http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/winners/achievement/mountbatten-winners.cfm</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theiet.org/publishing/library-archives/the-iet-archives/iet-history/awards-and-prizes-index/the-mountbatten-medallists/|title=The Mountbatten Medallists|date=13 March 2019|website=The Institute of Engineering and Technology}}</ref>
In 2014 Nag was the recipient of the [[IET Mountbatten Medal|Mountbatten Medal]] awarded by the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]]. The award cited Nag's influence on the creation of the modern mobile phone industry with the development of smartphone components such as text and speech recognition and digital distribution platforms, technologies that were later incorporated widely into early smartphones developed by Motorola and BlackBerry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/winners/achievement/mountbatten-winners.cfm|title = IET Events}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theiet.org/publishing/library-archives/the-iet-archives/iet-history/awards-and-prizes-index/the-mountbatten-medallists/|title=The Mountbatten Medallists|date=13 March 2019|website=The Institute of Engineering and Technology}}</ref>

In 2021, Nag's contributions in engineering entrepreneurship, smartphone user interfaces, and mobile app stores were acknowledged by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20211229235641/https://site.ieee.org/scv/scv-section-2021-awards/ IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section (SCV) with an Outstanding Engineer award].


==References==
==References I==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://conferences.theiet.org/achievement/winners/achievement/mountbatten-winners.cfm Institute of Engineering and Technology Award Winners]
* [https://www.theiet.org/publishing/library-archives/the-iet-archives/iet-history/awards-and-prizes-index/the-mountbatten-medallists/ Institution of Engineering and Technology Award Winners]


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Ronjon Nag
NationalityBritish-American
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge University
Known forMobile Technology Components
AwardsMountbatten Medal (2014), IEEE SCV Outstanding Engineer (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMobile Technology
InstitutionsStanford University

Ronjon Nag is a British-American inventor and entrepreneur specializing in the field of mobile technology. He co-founded the technology company Lexicus, acquired by Motorola in 1993 and Cellmania, acquired by Research in Motion in 2010. He later served as Vice-President of both Motorola and BlackBerry.

Education and personal life

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Ronjon Nag received his bachelor's degree in 1984 from the University of Birmingham, where he studied Electronic & Electrical Engineering.[1] He received a Master of Science degree from MIT in Management Science and studied neural networks in Stanford University's Department of Psychology. After completing a Doctorate in Engineering at Cambridge University, he studied as a Harkness Fellow in the United States at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.[2] In 2014 became a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and in 2016, he become a fellow of the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute.

He divides his time between Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Silicon Valley in California.[3]

Career in Technology

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Nag's work has focused on inventing new systems for interacting with mobile devices, resulting in breakthroughs in the application of speech recognition, handwriting recognition, predictive text and touch screens for mobile devices.[4][5] As a student at Cambridge University, Nag wrote an article applying a hidden Markov model to speech recognition, which became the basis for his Phd on the subject.[6] In 1991 Ronjon Nag began researching artificial neural networks, first under Amar Gupta at MIT and then in Stanford University's Department of Psychology, studying under David Rumelhart.[2] In 1992, Nag co-founded the technology company Lexicus in Palo Alto, California.[7] As CEO and as a computer scientist, Nag oversaw the emergence of Lexicus as an industry pioneer of speech and predictive technology systems[8] and saw the acquisition of Lexicus by Motorola in November 1993.[9] As a subsidiary of Motorola, Lexicus introduced some of the first devices with Chinese handwriting and speech recognition.[10] In 1999, he founded Cellmania, a mobile infrastructure company that provided digital rights management for mobile content, enabling the creation of some of the first mobile app stores.[11] Cellmania was sold to Research in Motion, now BlackBerry Limited, in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.[2]

Nag is President of the R42 Institute which develops and funds AI and Longevity projects. Nag is also Chairman of Bounce Imaging, which develops throwable cameras undertaking video stitching whilst being thrown,[12] winning the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Prize in 2015.

Awards

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In 2014 Nag was the recipient of the Mountbatten Medal awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The award cited Nag's influence on the creation of the modern mobile phone industry with the development of smartphone components such as text and speech recognition and digital distribution platforms, technologies that were later incorporated widely into early smartphones developed by Motorola and BlackBerry.[13][14]

In 2021, Nag's contributions in engineering entrepreneurship, smartphone user interfaces, and mobile app stores were acknowledged by the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section (SCV) with an Outstanding Engineer award.

References I

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  1. ^ https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-eps/community/newsletter/Nov-2014/SD1114-EESE-Newsletter.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ a b c "Ronjon Nag – Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute". stanford.edu.
  3. ^ "IET Awards - IET Conferences". theiet.org.
  4. ^ "Motorola Lives! A year ago, Wall Street was writing Motorola's obituary. But the company changed its ways, and now the stock is very much alive. - September 27, 1999". fortune.com.
  5. ^ Hutheesing, Nikhil (13 June 2006). "Cellmania's Wireless Apps". forbes.com.
  6. ^ Nag, R.; Wong, K.; Fallside, F. (1986). "Script recognition using hidden Markov models". ICASSP '86. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Vol. 11. pp. 2071–2074. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1986.1168951. S2CID 58277721.
  7. ^ "COMPUTERS THAT LEARN BY DOING Programs and chips that mimic the way the brain works are catching on in business. They spot credit card crooks, pick stocks, sort apples, and even drive cars". fortune.com. September 6, 1993.
  8. ^ Markoff, John (1993-01-06). "BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; Computers Advancing Rapidly Back to the Pen". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Company News; Motorola Buys Handwriting-Recognition Company". The New York Times. 1993-11-12.
  10. ^ "PC Mag". Ziff Davis. 1996-01-23.
  11. ^ "Cellmania's Wireless Apps". Forbes.
  12. ^ "Team". bounceimaging.com.
  13. ^ "IET Events".
  14. ^ "The Mountbatten Medallists". The Institute of Engineering and Technology. 13 March 2019.
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