Bio

Education:

• M. Tech +  PhD dual degree from IIT Bombay: Year 2017

• B.E. in ECE from Government Engineering College Aurangabad

Teaching:

• Introduction to coding theory: Spring'24 

• Information and communication: Spring'24

• Value education-II: Spring'24, Spring'23

• Foundations for signal processing and communications: Monsoon'23, Monsoon'24 

• Electronics Workshop-2: Spring'23

• Information theory: Monsoon'22, Monsoon'24

• Information theory, pattern recognition, and neural networks: Monsoon'21 (@ IIIT Bangalore)

• Digital communication: Spring'21 (@ IIIT Bangalore)

• Mathematics for Machine Learning: Monsoon'19 (@ IIIT Bangalore)

Work/research experience:

• Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad: May'24 to present

• DST-INSPIRE faculty at IIIT Hyderabad: Jan'22 to Apr'24

• DST-INSPIRE faculty at IIIT Bangalore: Jan'19 to Jan'22 

• Post-doctoral researcher at IRIT, University of Toulouse-III Paul Sabatier, France: May'17 to Jan'19 

• PhD at IIT Bombay: Jan'12 to Jan'17

• M. Tech at IIT Bombay: Jul'09 to Dec'11

• Software and hardware design engineer at Larsen and Toubro, Mumbai: Jul'07 to  Jul'9

Students:

• Currently collaborating with B.Tech honors student Ashuthosh Bharadwaj (IIIT-Hyderabad), for his B.Tech research project on the topic "Reinforcement learning for decoding LDPC codes".

• Currently collaborating with B.Tech honors student Shikhar Saxena (IIIT-Hyderabad), for his B. Tech research project on "New second order optimization methods". 

• Currently collaborating with B.Tech honors student Shivam Sood, for his B.Tech research project on "Generative AI for time-series data".

• Co-supervised MS research student Kancharla Vamshi Krishna (IIIT-Bangalore), for his MS research project on the topic "Deep learning for blind reconstruction of channel codes": Jul'21 to Apr'23.

• Supervised integrated B.Tech + M.Tech student Amogh Johri (IIIT-Bangalore), for his research elective on the topic "Error correcting codes for distributed machine learning": Aug-Dec'20

• Supervised MS research student Prathyusha Appalla (IIIT-Bangalore), for her research elective on the topic "Introduction to LDPC codes":  Aug-Dec'20

Awards and achievements:

• Recipient of DST-INSPIRE faculty fellowship award-2018 given by the Government of India

• Recipient of CIMI (International Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) postdoctoral fellowship given by the University of Toulouse, France for the year 2017

• University rank holder for B.E. 

• Merit rank holder for H.S.C.