Radhakrishnan Nagarajan

Radhakrishnan "Radha" Nagarajan is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Marvell’s Optical Engineering Group. At Marvell, he manages the development of the company’s optical platform technology and products. He joined Marvell from Inphi where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Platforms. He is concurrently a Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore

Dr, Nagarajan has been awarded the IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel Award, the IPRM (Indium Phosphide and Related Materials) Award and most recently the OPTICA David Richardson Medal for his groundbreaking contributions to the development and successful commercialization of InP and Si-based large-scale photonic integrated circuits for application in high-speed optical interconnects. He has been awarded more than 250 US patents. He has authored/co-authored 200+ conference and journal publications and five book chapters in his areas of specialization. In 2024, Radha was named to Electro Optics’ The Photonics100 which honors the industry’s most innovative people. In 2025, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE, US) for his contributions to the advances in high-speed lasers and photonic integration technologies.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of OPTICA (the Optical Society) and a Fellow of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology). He has a B.Eng. from the National University of Singapore, a M.Eng. from the University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, all in Electrical Engineering.