Monisha Ghosh

{{short description|Electrical engineer with Interdigital Communications, Inc. in Mellville, New York}}

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Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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Monisha Ghosh is an electrical engineer. She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2015_elevated_fellows.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330134212/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2015_elevated_fellows.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 30, 2015|title=2015 elevated fellow|website=IEEE Fellows Directory}} for her contributions to cognitive radio and signal processing for communication systems.

On December 22, 2019, Ghosh was appointed as the first woman chief technology officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission.{{cite news |title=Indian-American named 1st woman CTO of US' communications commission |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/indian-american-named-1st-woman-chief-technology-officer-of-us-communications-commission-119122200052_1.html |publisher=Business Standard |date=December 22, 2019}}

She holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991. She is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.{{cite news |title=Indian-American Dr Monisha Ghosh named 1st woman Chief Technology Officer of US' communications commission |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/indian-american-dr-monisha-ghosh-named-1st-woman-chief-technology-officer-of-us-communications-commission/articleshow/72921066.cms |publisher=The Economic Times |date=December 22, 2019}} From 2015 through 2021, she was also a research professor at the University of Chicago. As of 2024, Dr Ghosh is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. {{cite web |title=Monisha Ghosh - Electrical Engineering |url=https://ee.nd.edu/faculty/monisha-ghosh/ |website=ND_EE_Bio |access-date=28 July 2024}}

She served as a rotating program director at the National Science Foundation from September 2017 to December 2019 in the Computer and Network System Division within the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Previously, she worked at InterDigital, Philips Research and Bell Laboratories.