chennaikanpur for his phd at stanford 28yearold electrical engineer dinesh bharadia decided he was not going to choose a problem that was trivial so he settled in on something that had stumped scientists for 150 years how to turn radio communication twoway and he did it in just a couple of years by creating a full duplex radio for this bharadia a researcher at massachusetts institute of technology mit who grew up in kolhapur and graduated from iitkanpur has been awarded the prestigious 2016 marconi society paul baran young scholar award which he will receive at a ceremony at the computer history museum in california on november 2 the award is named after guglielmo marconi the inventor of radio known for his work on longdistance radio transmission ironically marconi couldnt solve the problem of duplexing in a telephonic interview to toi from his home in cambridge masachusetts bharadia said what he had designed was selfinterference cancellation technology which means it would now be possible for a radio to receive and transmit on one frequency band