Invited Talks and Tutorials

• PhD alumni event, CHARM career fair, February 1, 2019
  • Content: Present oneself, journey from PhD to company transition, reflections on job at company [presentation]
• PhD alumni event, CHARM career fair, January 31, 2018
  • Content: Present oneself, the company and what would be a career path for a PhD at our company [presentation]
• ECOC 2017, Machine learning track, September 17, 2017
  • Title: The need for machine learning and data analytic for future communication infrastructure [presentation]
• Assocham and intellectual property India Awareness cum technical training workshop for patent examiners, July 11 2017
  • Title: Radio aspects of LTE and 5G
• Bell Labs, Nokia, Stuttgart, Germany, June 10, 2016
  • Title: Exploring the Limits of Receiver-Side Nonlinearity Mitigation
  • Host: Dr. Laurent Schmalen
• Tutorial at Swedish-Communication Technology Workshop (Swe-CTW), Mid-Sweden University, Sundvall, Sweden, June 2 2016
  • Title: Exploring the Limits of Receiver-Side Nonlinearity Mitigation [presentation]
• Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Italy, September 24 2015.
  • Title: Exploring the Limits of Receiver-Side Nonlinearity Mitigation [presentation]
  • Host: Assoc. Prof. Giulio Colavolpe
  • Audience: This 60 minutes presentation was aimed at audience who are familiar with factor graphs and message passing and who do not necessarily have working knowledge in optical communications.
• Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Italy, July 30 2015.
  • Title: Introduction to factor graphs and message passing (and its application in the design of detector for communications) [presentation]
  • Host: Asst. Prof. Paolo Serena and Assoc. Prof. Alberto Bononi
  • Audience: This 90 minutes presentation was aimed at audience who do not necessarily have working knowledge in communication theory.
• TeCIP institute, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Pisa, Italy, June 30, 2015
  • Title: Introduction to factor graphs and message passing (and its application in the design of detector for communications) [Announcement][presentation]
  • Host: Asst. Prof. Marco Secondini
  • Audience: The presentation is suitable for a wider audience, who do not necessarily have working knowledge in communication theory.
• Swe-CTW, Karlstad, May 28 2015
  • Title: Stochastic Digital Backpropagation: Unifying Digital Backpropagation and the MAP Criterion [presentation]
  • Audience: Researchers mainly from wireless communications from different universities in Sweden

I gave tutorial-like introduction to the 'factor graphs and message passing' and how these concepts are used in the design of optimal receivers. The talk is intended for researchers (PhD’s, prof’s, postDocs, master students doing research both in wireless and especially fiber-optics community). Based on the audience background (depending on if they are more towards optical or wireless communication background), the content is changed but the base presentation can be seen here.

• Indian Institute of Technology (IITD), Delhi, India, Jan. 8, 2015.
  • Title: Introduction to factor graphs and message passing (and its application in the design of detector for communications)
  • Host: Prof. Shankar Prakriya, Bharti School Coordinator
  • Audience: Researchers from wireless communications and optical communications
• Indian Institute of Technology (IITM), Chennai, India, Jan. 5, 2015.
  • Title: Introduction to factor graphs, message passing and its application in the design of detector for optical communications
  • Host: Assoc. Prof. Balaji Srinivasan, and Asst. Prof. Deepa Venkitesh
  • Audience: Researchers mainly from optical communications
• Shiv Nadar University (SNU), Noida, India, Dec. 3, 2014.
  • Title: Factor graphs and sum-product algorithm
  • Host: Prof. Vijay Kumar Chakka
• Coriant, Munich, Germany, Aug. 13, 2014
  • Title: Factor graphs and sum-product algorithm and application in optimal receiver design for optical communications
  • Hosts: Dr. Bernhard Spinnler, and Dr. Antonio Napoli