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Kundan Kandhway

Assistant Professor

IISER Bhopal

kundankandhway [at] iiserb [dot] ac [dot] in

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Education and Career:

    • October 2018 -- Present: IISER Bhopal, India

    • November 2015 -- October 2018: TCS Innovation Labs, Chennai, India

    • August 2011 -- November 2015: Doctor of Philosophy, Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India. [Thesis submission: October 2015. Thesis defence: May 2016].

    • September 2009 -- March 2011: Master of Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada.

    • June 2008 -- July 2009: Project Trainee, IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India.

    • July 2004 -- May 2008: Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

Research Interests:

    • Information/biological epidemics on networks

    • Application of tools from optimal control/optimization on large systems

I am open to problems using tools from optimal control, optimization, and game theory.

Publications:

    • Journal Papers (peer reviewed):

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Using Node Centrality and Optimal Control to Maximize Information Diffusion in Social Networks", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Volume 47, Issue 7, July 2017, pages 1099-1110. [IEEEXplore] [arXiv]

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Optimal Resource Allocation Over Time and Degree Classes for Maximizing Information Dissemination in Social Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 24, Issue 5, October 2016, pages 3204-3217. [IEEEXplore] [arXiv]

      • Siddhartha Sarma, Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Robust Energy Harvesting Based on a Stackelberg Game", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Volume 5, Issue 3, June 2016, pages 336-339. [IEEEXplore] [arXiv]

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Campaigning on Heterogeneous Social Networks: Optimal Control of SI Information Epidemics", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2016, pages 383-396. [IEEEXplore] [arXiv].

      • Siddhartha Sarma, Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Robust Power Allocation and Outage Analysis for Secrecy in Independent Parallel Gaussian Channels", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2016, pages 68-71. [IEEEXplore] [arXiv]

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Optimal Control of Information Epidemics modeled as Maki Thompson Rumors", Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Elsevier), Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2014, pages 4135-4147. [ScienceDirect] [arXiv]

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "How to Run a Campaign: Optimal Control of SIS and SIR Information Epidemics", Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier), Volume 231, March 2014, pages 79-92. [ScienceDirect] [arXiv].

    • Conference/Workshop Papers (peer reviewed):

      • Kundan Kandhway, Depak Sudarsanam, Arunchandar Vasan, Venkatesh Sarangan, "Optimizing Viral Marketing for Demand Response", Social Networking Workshop (affiliated to COMSNETS), January 2019, Bangalore, India.

      • Kundan Kandhway, "Modeling Opinion Dynamics in a Social Network Using Markov Random Field", Social Networking Workshop (affiliated to COMSNETS), January 2018, Bangalore, India.

      • Kundan Kandhway, "Centralized and Epidemic Dissemination of Security Patches", Social Networking Workshop (affiliated to COMSNETS), January 2018, Bangalore, India.

      • Kundan Kandhway, Arunchandar Vasan, Srinarayana Nagarathinam, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, "Incentive Design for Demand-Response Based on Building Constraints -- A Utility Perspective", ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), Delft, Netherlands, November 2017

      • Kundan Kandhway, Bhushan Kotnis, "Game Theoretic Analysis of Tree Based Referrals for Crowd Sensing Social Systems with Passive Rewards", Social Networking Workshop (affiliated to COMSNETS), January 2016, Bangalore, India, pages 1-6. [IEEEXplore] [arXiv]

      • Siddhartha Sarma, Kundan Kandhway, Bhushan Kotnis, Joy Kuri, "Urban Monitoring Using Participatory Sensing: An Optimal Budget Allocation Approach", Social Networking Workshop (affiliated to COMSNETS), January 2016, Bangalore, India, pages 1-6. [IEEEXplore]

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Degree Based Seed Optimization to Maximize Information Dissemination in Social Networks", Social Networking Workshop affiliated to the International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), January 2015, Bangalore, India, pages 1-6. [IEEEXplore]

      • Kundan Kandhway, Joy Kuri, "Accelerating Information Diffusion in Social Networks Under the Susceptible-Infected Susceptible Epidemic Model", International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), September 2014, Delhi, India, pages 1515-1519. [IEEEXplore]

      • S. Mallick, Kundan Kandhway, M. M. Rashid, V. K. Bhargava, "Power Allocation for Decode-and-Forward Cellular Relay Network with Channel Uncertainty", IEEE International Conference of Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011, pages 1-5. [IEEEXplore]

      • Kundan Kandhway, M. M. Rashid, V. K. Bhargava, "Cooperative Communication in Wireless Uplink Transmissions using Random Network Coding", IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Ottawa, Canada, September 2010, pages 1-5. [IEEEXplore]

      • Om Deshmukh, Kundan Kandhway, Ashish Verma, Kartik Audhkhasi, "Automatic Evaluation of Spoken English Fluency", IEEE ICASSP, Tiapei, Taiwan, April 2009, pages 4829-4832. [IEEEXplore]

      • Kartik Audhkhasi, Kundan Kandhway, Om Deshmukh, Ashish Verma, "Formant based Technique for Automatic Filled-pause Detection in Spontaneous Spoken English", IEEE ICASSP, Tiapei, Taiwan, April 2009, pages 4857-4860. [IEEEXplore]

      • Kundan Kandhway, A. Anand and Ratnajit Bhattacharjee, "A Generative Model for Burst Error Characterization in a Fading Channel", IEEE Tencon, Hydrabad, India, November 2008, pages 1-5. [IEEEXplore]

    • Magazine Paper (peer reviewed):

      • Kundan Kandhway, "Finding a Research Problem: Tips for New Ph. D. Students", IEEE Potentials, Volume 34, Issue 3, May-June 2015, pages 25-29. [IEEEXplore]

Patent:

    • Kartik Audhkhasi, Om Deshmukh, Kundan Kandhway, Ashish Verma, "Automatic Evaluation of Spoken Fluency", US Patent, Application number: US20110040554 A1, Publication date: 17 February 2011. (Also published as Application number: US8457967 B2, Publication Date: 4 June 2013). [Link]

    • Kundan Kandhway, Arunchandar Vasan, Srinarayana Nagarathinam, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, "Systems and Methods for Optimizing Incentives for Demand Response". [Link]

    • Kundan Kandhway, Arunchandar Vasan, Srinarayana Nagarathinam, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, "Methods and Systems for Scalable Estimation of Demand Response"