Ph.D. Position:
I am looking for motivated and hard-working PhD students in the areas of Next-generation Wireless Networks and Machine Learning. If you are interested in developing Machine Learning algorithms for next-generation wireless communication systems (5G/6G) (with good knowledge of Mathematics/ Statistics) or interested in theoretical machine learning problems and have a mathematical bent of mind, then please drop me an email.
Ph.D. Students:
Vikky Masih (IIT Guwahati, MFSDSAI ) 2022-Present
Topic: Task Scheduling in Multi-access Edge Computing Enabled Internet-of-Things Networks
Kishan Chakraborty (IIT Guwahati, MFSDSAI ) 2024-Present
Topic: Bandit Algorithms for next-generation wireless networks
M.Tech Projects:
Bapan Goutam (IIT Guwahati, EEE department, jointly with Dr. Arun B. Aloshious, part-time, now with NTPC Limited)
Topic: Quantum Reinforcement Learning
Mehar Khatoon (IIT Guwahati, M.Tech (Data Science), jointly with Dr. Debabrata Sikdar)
Topic: Leveraging the Potential of Deep RL for Tackling the Inverse Design of Nanophotonic
Tenzin Dawa (IIT Guwahati, M.Tech (Data Science), jointly with Dr. Salil Kashyap, Now with Axtria)
Topic: Deep RL based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Trajectory Optimization in beyond 5G communications systems
B.Tech Projects (Present):
Saptarshi Mukherjee (IIT Guwahati, MFSDSAI) 2025-2026
Topic: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Sahil Raj (IIT Guwahati, MFSDSAI) 2025-2026
Topic: Federated Learning for IoT Networks
B.Tech Projects (Past):
Nityam Pareek (IIT Guwahati, MFSDSAI, Now with Google) 2024-2025
Topic: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning
Harsh Raj (IIT Guwahati, MFSDSAI) 2024-2025
Topic: Exploitation of bias in Reinforcement Learning for edge computing
Srivatsha P S (IIT Guwahati, EEE department, jointly with Dr. Arun B. Aloshious)
Topic: Quantum Multi-armed Bandits
Aryan Singh (IIT Guwahati, EEE department, jointly with Dr. Salil Kashyap , Now with Visa, Bengaluru, India) 2023-2024
Topic: On decentralized Multi-armed bandit algorithms
Vighnesh Deshpande (IIT Guwahati, EEE department, jointly with Dr. Salil Kashyap, Now with Oracle, Bengaluru, India) 2023-2024
Topic: Optimal Placement of Aerial Base Stations in Cell-Free Networks
Pawas Shastri (IIT Guwahati, Engineering Physics department, Now with NoBroker , Bengaluru, India) 2022-2023
Topic: Task Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing Networks
Interns:
Basab Ghosh (IITDM Kancheepuram, Computer Science & Engineering, Now with CSA, IISc)
Topic: Deep RL-based methods for controlling UAV motion
Akshit Singh (IIT Ropar, Mathematics & Computing)
Topic: PPO with Neural Network: Global Optimality
Somnath Giri (IIT Bhubaneswar, Mathematics)
Topic: Federated Learning: Byzantine Tolerant Gradient Descent
Dhrubang Talukdar (Tezpur University, CSE, Now with IEOR, IIT Bombay)
Topic: Implementation of LSTM in CQI Prediction for 5G Network in NS3-AI
Avval Kaur (Manipal University Jaipur, IT)
Topic: Handwritten digit recognition using PCA
Abhiraj Paul (Assam Engineering College, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)
Topic: Downlink Performance Investigation for an NB-IoT Network
Anirban Biswas (Assam Engineering College, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)
Topic: Uplink Performance Investigation for an NB-IoT Network
Pratik Bhudari (NIT Durgapur, Electrical Engineering, Now with Baker Hughes , Mumbai, India)
Topic: Implementation of Dynamic Programming Algorithms For Gambler’s Ruin Problem
Present & Past Collaborators:
Nilanjan Biswas (NIT Durgapur, India)
Mehrdad Moharrami (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin,USA)
R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Vivek Borkar (IIT Bombay, India)
Pranav Jha (IIT Bombay, India)
Pradnya Kiri Taksande (Dolcera, India)
Akshatha Nayak (Mavenir, India)
Pravjyot Singh Deogun (Qualcomm, India)
Abhay Karandikar (IIT Kanpur & IIT Bombay, India)
Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India)
Rajarshi Roy (IIT Kharagpur, India)