Education:
B.E. in ECE from Government Engineering College Aurangabad
M. Tech + PhD dual degree from IIT Bombay: Year 2017
Post-Doc from 'Centre International de Mathématiques et Informatique (CIMI) de Toulouse', France: 2017-2019
Teaching:
Information and communication: Spring'24, Spring'25, Spring'26
Foundations for signal processing and communications: Monsoon'23, Monsoon'24, Monsoon'25
Information theory: Monsoon'22, Monsoon'24, Monsoon'25
Introduction to coding theory: Spring'24
Electronics Workshop-2: Spring'23, Spring'25, Spring'26
Value education-II: Spring'24, Spring'23
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 CIMI-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 supervising DD student "Guneesh Vats", IIIT-Hyderabad
Currently supervising DD student "Shubhankar Kamthankar", IIIT-Hyderabad
Currently supervising MS student "Davin Sequiera", IIIT-Hyderabad
Currently supervising PhD student "Manne Bhargav Sai", IIIT-Hyderabad
Collaborated with B.Tech honors student Ashuthosh Bharadwaj, IIIT-Hyderabad
Collaborated 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.