Ashwin Ganesan

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Amrita School of Engineering
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amritanagar, Coimbatore 641112, India.

Email: ashwin.ganesan@gmail.com
Mobile: +91- 770 887 4538

Teaching

Spring 2012:
  • Mathematical statistics and numerical methods

Previous teaching

Research interests

Combinatorics, graph theory, algorithms, discrete mathematics, and their applications.

Some recent papers

  • A. Ganesan,
    "The automorphism group of Cayley graphs on symmetric groups generated by transposition sets and of the modified bubble-sort graph,"
    Technical Report, 19 pages, May 2012. [PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "An efficient algorithm for the diameter of Cayley graphs generated by transposition trees,"
    SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, submitted in May 2012. [PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "On the sharpness of a bound on the diameter of Cayley graphs generated by transposition trees,"
    Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, to appear. [PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "On the strictness of a bound for the diameter of Cayley graphs generated by transposition trees,"
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computation , Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 283, Springer-Verlag, March 2012. [doi, PDF]

  • A. Ganesan and R. R. Iyer,
    "The regular number of a graph,"
    Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography, to appear in 2012. [PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "Diameter of Cayley graphs of permutation groups generated by transposition trees,"
    Technical Report, 21 pages, December 2011. [arXiv, PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "Design and performance of distributed mechanisms for flow admission in wireless adhoc networks"
    Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, (21 pages) submitted in November 2011. [arXiv, PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "The performance of an upper bound on the fractional chromatic number of weighted graphs,"
    Applied Mathematics Letters, vol. 23, pp. 597-599, May 2010. [doi, PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "On some sufficient conditions for distributed QoS support in wireless networks,"
    Workshop on Applications of Graph Theory in Wireless Adhoc Networks and Sensor Networks (GraphHoc), part of the 2009 NetCoM Conference, Chennai, India, December 2009. [doi, PDF]

  • A. Ganesan,
    "On some sufficient conditions for distributed QoS support in wireless networks,"
    Technical Report, 19 pages, May 2008. [PDF]

Brief biography

  • Born 1977 in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • 1st to 8th, Kendriya Vidyala, Kalpakkam, India, 1981-1989. 
  • 8th to 12th, American International School of Vienna, Austria, 1990-1994.
  • Co-op student, Eaton Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, USA, (one year full-time) 1995-1997
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (double major), Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 1998. 
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA, 2000.
  • Research and Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, 2001-2004, and UW Madison, 2004-2008.
  • Lecturer, Mumbai University affiliated engineering colleges, 2008-2010.
  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics department, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India, 2010-Present.