"Wisdom of the east should come together with the technology of the west to create a spirit of selfless giving to society and humanity at large," Asnani observed.

Paulraj joins a select group of IT pioneers who received the Marconi prize in past such as World Wide Web (www) creator Tin Berners-Lee, father of internet Vint Cerf, Google co-founder Larry Page and mobile phone developer Martin Cooper.

"To have three generations of Indian achievers in ICT - Kailath, Paulraj and Asnani - at an event is a testament to the contribution Indians are making at the cutting-edge of technology," IndiaTechOnline.com editor Anand Parthasaraty told.

Indian consul general at San Francisco N. Parthasarathi and India-born Microsoft researcher Aakanksha Chowdhery, first women to receive the Marconi young scholar award in 2012, participated in the award ceremony.

"Paulraj's contributions to wireless technology and the resulting benefit to humankind, are indisputable. Every WiFi (wireless fidelity) router and 4G phone uses Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) technology pioneered by him,"Society chairman David Payne said at the event.

MIMO boosts data rate by creating multiple parallel spatial data streams and is the key to the latest wireless broadband networks like 4G cellular.

Born in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, about 360 km from here, Paulraj was also honoured with the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2011 for his profound work on theoretical foundations of MIMO.

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 US west coast, besides pursuing doctorate (Ph.D) in mathematics at Stanford University's Electrical Engineering School.

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

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