National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue
NAI Fellow 2021
Santokh Badesha
College of Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment of society.
Melding industry and academic in a way that brings ideas to real-world impact more quickly, Santokh Badesha is not only a professor at Purdue; he’s also a corporate fellow and manager of open innovation at Xerox.
Through his work with industry, he has developed technologies that have transformed modern printing, driven billions of dollars in revenue, and sustained thousands of jobs around the world. He is internationally recognized for inventing technologies that have ushered in the era of digital printing on demand.
Badesha holds over 275 issued U.S. patents — along with more patents pending — for technologies such as photoreceptors, fuser subsystems, and intermediate transfer belts. Badesha is the recipient of many awards from Xerox, including being inducted into the Xerox Innovation Group Hall of Fame.
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