Brief Bio
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. (June 2020 - )
Senior Engineer, modem systems team, Qualcomm Inc., Bangalore. (April 2017 - May 2020)
Automation of log processing: An ML-based project that automates the process of detecting failure points during modem testing.
LTE Rel-16 features: Implementation of some LTE Rel-16 features such as the use of additional SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) symbols in an uplink subframe.
LTE uplink: Point of contact for LTE uplink related issues.
Internship, Nokia solutions and networks, Bangalore. (Feb 2016- May 2016)
NAICS feature: Implementation of NAICS (Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression) feature, introduced in LTE Rel-10.
Ph.D. (2012 - 7), Department of Electrical Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
M.E., Telecommunications (2010 - 2), Department of Electrical Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
B.E., Electronics and Communications Engineering (2006 - 10), Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai.
Advisor: Prof. PV Ramakrishna
Thesis: Outage Capacity Comparison Between STBC and V-BLAST in Wideband OFDM-MIMO Systems.
Higher Secondary, State Board of Tamilnadu (2005 - 6), Satchidananda Jothi Niketan, Kallar, Mettuppalayam.
Publications
Game Theory/ Mechanism Design/ Optimization
D. Thirumulanathan, R. Sundaresan, Y. Narahari, "Optimal Mechanism for Selling Two Items to a Single Buyer having Uniformly Distributed Valuations", In proceedings of the 12th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), 2016, pp. 174--187. [Book] [arXiv]
D. Thirumulanathan, H. Vinay, S. Bhashyam, R. Sundaresan, "Almost Budget Balanced Mechanisms with Scalar Bids For Allocation of a Divisible Good", European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), vol. 262, 2017, pp. 1196--1207. [doi] [arXiv]
D. Thirumulanathan, R. Sundaresan, Y. Narahari, "Optimal Mechanism for Selling Two Items to a Single Buyer having Uniformly Distributed Valuations", Journal of Mathematical Economics (JME), vol. 82, 2019, pp. 1--30. [doi][arXiv]
D. Thirumulanathan, R. Sundaresan, Y. Narahari, "On Optimal Mechanisms in the Two-Item One-Buyer Unit-Demand Setting", Journal of Mathematical Economics (JME), vol. 82, 2019, pp. 31--60. [doi][arXiv]
Machine Learning/ Wireless Communications
Vankayala, S.K., Kumar, S., Shenoy, K.G., Thirumulanathan D, Yoon, S. and Kommineni, I., "Neural Network Architecture for LLR Computation in 5G Systems and Related Business Aspects''. In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2021. [IEEE]
Vankayala, S.K., Kumar, S., Roy, I., Thirumulanathan D, Yoon, S. and Kanakaraj, S., "Radio Map Estimation Using a Generative Adversarial Network and Related Business Aspects". In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2021. [IEEE] (Won the best paper award).
Vankayala, S.K., Kumar, S., Thirumulanathan D, Yoon, S., Kommineni, I. and Lakshmi Narayana V.S. Ch., "Sparse Dense Neural Network Architecture for Turbo Decoding in Cloud Systems''. In Proceedings of 2021 IEEE conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS): International Workshop on 5G and Future Wireless Technology, 2021.
Vankayala, S.K., Kumar, S., Shah, V., Mathur, A., Thirumulanathan D, and Yoon, S., “Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Power Transmission in Cloud RAN Systems”. In proceedings of 2022 IEEE Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), 2022. [doi] [IEEE] (Won the best paper award).
Vankayala, S.K., Kumar, S., Thirumulanathan D, Mathur, A., Yoon, S., and Kommineni, I., “Deep-Learning Based Beam Selection Technique for 6G Millimeter Wave Communication”. In Proceedings of 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2022.
Events/ Talks
Gave a tutorial talk titled "Learning Optimal Auctions through Deep Neural Networks" during the Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Artificial Intelligence Symposium (Game-ARTS), 17-19 Jul 2024, held at IISc Bangalore. [Slides (p. 170--244)]
Gave a talk titled "KKT Reformulations for Single Leader and Multi-Follower Games" during the International Symposium on Applied Optimization and Game Theoretic Models for Decision Making, Jan 2024, held at ISI Delhi. [Slides]
Gave two talks titled “Relationship between optimal multi-item screening and optimal transport” and “Optimal Mechanisms for Selling Two Heterogeneous Items” during my stay as a visiting scientist at ISI Delhi, on 10-11 July 2023. [Slides - Talk 1] [Slides - Talk 2]
Gave a talk titled "Optimal Mechanisms in Two-item Setting for Constant Power Rate Distributions" during the International Symposium on Applied Optimization and Game Theoretic Models for Decision Making, Feb 2023, held at ISI Delhi. [Slides]
Gave a talk titled "Use of PDFs and CDFs in Auction Theory" during the QIP short term course on Frontier Areas of International Trade and Econometrics, Mar 2021, held at IIT Kanpur. [Slides]
Gave a talk titled "Optimization Theory and its Applications to Machine Learning" during the Workshop on Machine Learning and Applications, Feb 2021, held at NIT Surathkal. [Slides]
Gave a talk titled "Mechanism Design" during the Summer Research Program on Dynamics of Complex Systems, May 2019, held at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. [Slides]
Presented a poster titled “On Optimal Mechanisms in the Two-Item Single-Buyer Unit-Demand Setting” during the 13th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), December 2017, held at IISc Bangalore.
Presented a poster titled “Almost Budget Balanced Mechanisms With Scalar Bids For Allocation of a Divisible Good” during the 12th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), December 2016, held at Montreal, Canada.
Gave a talk titled “Optimal Mechanism for Selling Two Goods with Uniformly Distributed Valuations” during the Workshop on Static and Dynamic Mechanism Design, August 2015, held at ISI Delhi.
Presented a poster titled “Resource Allocation for Strategic Users Using Uncertain Convex Program” at IBM I-CARE, 2012, held at the IISc Bangalore.
Sponsored Projects
"Optimal Auction Mechanisms for Selling Multiple Heterogeneous Items in Static and Dynamic Settings", sponsored for Core Research Grant (CRG) by SERB. Working jointly with Dr. Swaprava Nath (IIT Bombay). Period: 2023 onwards.
“Optimal Auction Mechanisms for Selling Multiple Heterogeneous Items”, sponsored for initiation grant in IIT Kanpur. Period: 2022 onwards.
“Dynamic Algorithms for resource allocation among multiple agents”, sponsored by Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO. Worked jointly with Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan. Period: 2015-17.
“Network resource allocation in the presence of strategic users”, sponsored by the SERB and the DST. Worked jointly with Prof. Srikrishna Bhashyam and Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan. Period: 2011-14.