Radhakrishnan Nagarajan is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Marvell Technology’s Optical and Cloud Connectivity Group. Nagarajan joined Marvell from Inphi, where he served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Platforms. Prior to joining Inphi, he was a Fellow at Infinera, where he was focused on the design, development and commercialization of large scale photonic integrated circuits. He received his BEng from the National University of Singapore, MEng from the University of Tokyo, Japan and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, all in Electrical Engineering.

Nagarajan has been awarded more than 240 US patents and is a Fellow of the Optica, IEEE, and IET (UK). In 2006, he was awarded the IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel Award and in 2022 the IPRM (Indium Phosphide and Related Materials) Award. He also received the 2024 David Richardson Medal from Optica, “For the successful manufacturing and commercialization of InP and Si-based photonic integrated circuits for use as optical interconnects with a wide range of applications.”