Ronjon Nag

Ronjon Nag is a British-American inventor and entrepreneur specializing in the field of mobile technology. He founding 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

Ronjon Nag received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Birmingham in electrical engineering, where he received first class honors. He later received a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Management Science before completing a Doctorate in Electrical Science at Cambridge University. He has since become a fellow of the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute and a Fellow of the Institute for Engineering and Technology.

Nag is currently the Chairman of Embee Mobile, a company focusing on mobile technology research, and co-founded Ersatz Labs, which develops artificial intelligence for cloud computing. He also serves as the chairman of Payplant, an alternative finance platform. Nag serves on the bourds of Bounce Imaging, which develops tactical cameras for the defense and security industry, as well as Introhive, which creates sales automation software.

He divides his time between Cambridge in the United Kingdom and Sacramento and Silicon Valley in California.

Career in Technology

Nag's work has focused on inventing new systems for interacting with mobile devices, resulting in breakthroughs in speech recognition, handwriting recognition, predictive text and touch screens for mobile devices. In 1991 Ronjon Nag began researching artificial neural networks in Stanford University's Department of Psychology, studying under David Rumelhart. In 1992, Nag co-founded the technology company Lexicus in Palo Alto, California. As CEO, Nag oversaw the emergence of Lexicus as an industry pioneer of speech and predictive technology systems and saw the acquisition of Lexicus by Motorola in 1993. In 1999, he founded Cellmania, a moble infrastructure company that provided digital rights management for mobile content. Cellmania was sold to Research in Motion, now BlackBerry Limited, in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.

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.

External links

• Bloomberg Profile of Dr.Ronjon Nag
• Institute of Engineering and Technology Award Winners