Christo K Thomas

BIO

Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas received his BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India in year 2010, his MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in year 2012, and his PhD from EURECOM, France (under the supervision of Prof. Dirk Slock) in year 2020. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech under the supervision of Prof. Walid Saad. His research interests include semantic communications, statistical signal processing, and machine learning for wireless communications. From 2012 to 2014, he was a staff design engineer on 4G LTE with Broadcom communications, Bangalore, and from 2014 to 2017, he was a design engineer with Intel corporation, Bangalore. During November 2020 till June 2022, he was a staff engineer on 5G modems with wireless research and development division of Qualcomm Inc., Espoo, Finland. 

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

• Recipient of the best student paper award at IEEE SPAWC 2018, for the paper titled " Deterministic annealing for hybrid beamforming design in multi-cell MU-MIMO systems" 

• Third prize for his team titled “Learned Chester” ML5G-PHY channel estimation challenge, as part of the ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge, conducted at NCSU, US, 2020. Learned chester

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Semantic Communications.

• Statistical Signal Processing: Sparse Signal Processing, Sparse Bayesian Learning

• Integrated Sensing and Communication

• AI for Wireless

• Mathematical Foundations of Cognitive and Reasoning-driven AI Architectures

Publications

• Publications on massive MIMO systems: https://www.eurecom.fr/en/people/kurisummoottil-thomas-christo/publications

• C. K. Thomas, W. Saad, "Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Intent based Semantic Communication", Accepted to IEEE Globecom, Rio DeJaneiro, Brazil, December, 2022.

• C. K. Thomas and W. Saad, " Neuro-Symbolic Causal Reasoning Meets Signaling Game for Emergent Semantic Communications", available at  arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12040., 2022.

• C. K. Thomas and W. Saad, " Reliable Beamforming at Terahertz Bands: Are Causal Representations the Way Forward”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, Jun., 2023.

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