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
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
Sponsored projects/grants:
Recipient of "Advanced research grant (ARG)" given by the Government of India: 2026 to 2030
Project for developing "Virtual labs on Error correcting codes" given by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India: 2022-2024
Recipient of DST-INSPIRE faculty fellowship award given by the Government of India: 2019 to 2024
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)
Current students at IIIT-Hyderabad:
PhD student: "Manne Bhargav Sai", Topic: Reinforcement learning for LDPC codes
MS student: "Davin Sequiera", Topic: Change-point detection
DD student: "Gopal Kataria", Topic: Change-point detection
DD student: "Sahithi Anumula", Topic: Covert communication
DD student: "Guneesh Vats", Topic: Change-point detection
DD student: "Shubhankar Kamthankar", Topic: Covert communication + Change-point detection
B. Tech honors student: "Ananya Verma", Topic: Covert communication
B. Tech honors student: "A Sai Rithvik", Topic: Reinforcement learning for LDPC codes
B. Tech honors student: "Jay Daulatkar", Topic: Covert communication
Past students at IIIT-Hyderabad:
Collaborated with B.Tech honors student Shikhar Saxena, for his B. Tech research project on "New second order optimization methods": Jun'24 to Jun'25
Collaborated with B.Tech honors student Shivam Sood, for his B.Tech research project on "Generative AI for time-series data": Jan'24 to Jan'24
Past students at IIIT-Bangalore:
Collaborated with 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
Collaborated with DD student Amogh Johri (IIIT-Bangalore), for his research elective on the topic "Error correcting codes for distributed machine learning": Aug-Dec'20
Collaborated with 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.