Arogyaswami Paulraj was educated at the Naval Engineering College, India, and at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1973.

A large part of his career to date has been spent in research laboratories in India, where he supervised the development of several electronic systems. His contributions include a sonar receiver (1973-1974), a surface ship sonar (1976-1983), parallel computer (1988-1991), and telecommunications systems. He has held visiting appointment at several universities - the Indian Institute of Technology, from 1973 to 1974 Loughborough University of Technology, U.K., from 1974 to 1975; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, from 1983 to 1986. His research has spanned several disciplines, emphasizing estimation theory, sensor signal processing antenna array processing, parallel computer architectures/algorithms, and communication systems. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, working in the area of mobile communications. He is the author of about 90 research papers and holds several patents.

Dr. Paulraj has won a number of national awards in India for his contributions to technology development.