Asnani's academic and entrepreneurial achievements also stood out in a review of the nominated researchers from the world over the society undertakes every year.

"Asnani's outstanding work and contribution to point-to-point and multi-terminal channel coding and source coding problems were impressive," Tkach recalled.

The award recognises individuals who demonstrate exceptional scientific talent and entrepreneurial skills at a young age with potential to make advances in telecom and internet.

"In studies too, Asnani made profound contributions to our understanding of the fundamental limits in new communication and data compression (point-to-point and multi-terminal). His work spans from theoretical to the applied," his primary advisor at Stanford Tsachy Weissman said in a statement from the university.

Unlike many, Asnani is attracted to problems and is as passionate about understanding their theoretical underpinnings as he is about developing, implementing and experimenting with practical schemes that make a difference.

"What intrigued me was the idea that communication and networking could be used to connect and inspire people. By helping people share ideas and questions and answers, I was applying theory to real life problems with tangible impacts and outcomes," Asnani noted.

Asnani's initial research focused on cooperation in communication, which can boost the performance of a network.

"He developed insights and results of independent theoretical significance and uses them for guiding the design of new schemes in the motivating problem domains," says Weissman observed.

Asnani's assignments at Ericsson include designing next generation communication and computer networks. He also leads Ericsson's collaborations with startup partners and vendors to port new features and applications in the cloud platform.

Through symposia, conferences, forums and publications, the Society also promotes awareness of major innovations in communication theory, technology and applications with particular attention to understanding how they change and benefit society.

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