Assistant Professor
Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC)
Email: saikiran.bulusu@iiit.ac.in
For interested students: Looking for PhD and master’s students to work in the general areas of optimization and machine learning theory
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad, where I am affiliated with the Signal Processing and Communications Research Center. Before joining IIIT Hyderabad, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University, where I had the privilege of working with Prof. Ness Shroff and Prof. Yingbin Liang. I earned my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Syracuse University in August 2023 under the guidance of Prof. Pramod K. Varshney and Prof. Venkata Gandikota. Before pursuing my doctoral studies, I served as a project associate with Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Earlier in my career, I worked as a Wireless Engineer at Samsung Bangalore. I hold an MTech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras and a BTech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from MGIT, affiliated with JNTU Hyderabad.
Research Interests
Federated Learning, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Robust Statistics, Deep Learning, Compressed Sensing, Group Testing
I'm always looking for collaborations. If you are a researcher with similar research interests, feel free to email me and we can set up a time to chat.
Recent News
[May 2025] I have joined SPCRC at IIIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor. Thrilled about the opportunity to collaborate with the outstanding faculty and students here.
[Jan. 2025] Our paper titled "Robust Distributed Clustering with Redundant Data Assignment" has been accepted in IEEE TIT 2025.
[Jan. 2025] Our paper titled "Density-dependent Group Testing" has been accepted in AISTATS 2025.
[Feb. 2025] Our paper titled "Dynamic Loss-based Sample Reweighting for Improved Large Language Model Pretraining" has been accepted in ICLR 2025.
[Dec. 2024] Our paper titled "Support Recovery in 1-Bit Compressed Sensing with Burst Sparse Noise" has been accepted in ICASSP 2025.
[Sep. 2023] Our paper titled "On Ordered Transmission based Distributed Gaussian Shift-in-Mean Detection under Byzantine Attacks" has been accepted in IEEE TSP 2023.
[Aug. 2023] I have graduated from SU and will be joining Ohio State University as a Postdoc.
[Apr. 2023] Our paper titled "1-bit Compressed Sensing with Local Sparsity Patterns" has been accepted at ISIT 2023.