BANGALORE: Himanshu Asnani, 27, an India-born mathematics researcher at Stanford University Electrical Engineering School in the U.S., is the winner of the Marconi Society Paul Baran young scholar award for 2014.

"The prestigious award will be presented to Asnani at our annual event Oct 2 at the National Academies of Sciences in Washington, DC," Society's young scholar selection committee Bob Tkach told IANS through email.

Asnani, who hails from Kota in Rajasthan, is also a system engineer at the Swedish telecom major's R&D centre in the Silicon Valley, off the U.S. west coast.

Though Asnani aspired to become a neurosurgeon as a child under the influence of his parents who are doctors, his exposure to mathematics and physics in teenage got him fourth rank in the IIT joint entrance exam.

Graduating from IIT-Bombay in electrical engineering in 2009, Asnani went to the U.S. to do masters (MS) at Stanford and enrolled for Ph.D in the same subject.

Named after Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi, who invented radio, and set up in 1974 by his daughter Gioia Marconi Braga through an endowment, the Marconi Society awards annually outstanding individuals whose scope of work and influence emulate the principle of 'creativity in service to humanity' that inspired Marconi.

The award, with a cash prize of $4000, is given to scholars who are 27 or younger at the time of the nomination, as Marconi was 27 years when he invented the wireless telegraphy.

"In addition to citation and cash prize, the award provides travel stipends to its winners for many years to enable them attend our events, as we consider them to be an integral part of the Society," Tkach said in the e-mail.

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