Gowtham R. Kurri
Signal Processing and Communications Research Center
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Email: gowtham.kurri@iiit.ac.in
Office Address: A2-203, Vindhya Building (A2 Block), IIIT Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Telangana-500032.
Office Address: A2-203, Vindhya Building (A2 Block), IIIT Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Telangana-500032.
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), associated with the Signal Processing and Communications Research Center (SPCRC).
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Arizona State University, USA, hosted by Dr. Oliver Kosut and Dr. Lalitha Sankar. I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India, under the guidance of Dr. Pranab Sen and Dr. Vinod M. Prabhakaran, respectively, in 2020. I graduated from IIIT Hyderabad, India, with a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2011.
From 2011 to 2012, I was an Associate Engineer with Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. From July to October 2019, I was a Research Intern with the Blockchain Technology Group at IBM Research, Bengaluru, India.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the areas of Statistical Machine Learning, Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and Network Information Theory.
Selected Awards
Graduated with a First Class with Distinction in M.S. at TIFR
TPC choice session at ISIT 2018 (top 6%)
Travel Fellowship from the Sarojini Damodaran Foundation to attend ISIT 2018, Vail, Colorado, USA
Appeared in Dean's List for Academic Excellence for Spring and Monsoon semesters, 2009, and Spring semester, 2011, at IIIT Hyderabad
Publications
Conference Papers
Maximal Guesswork Leakage (To appear | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Malhar A. Managoli, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2024
(alpha_D, alpha_G)-GANs: Addressing GAN Training Instabilities via Dual Objectives (arXiv | IEEEXplore)
Authors: Monica Welfert, Kyle Otstot, Gowtham R. Kurri, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop on New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning, 2023 (link )
An Alphabet of Leakage Measures (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Atefeh Gilani, Gowtham R. Kurri, Oliver Kosut, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2022.
A Variational Formula for Infinity-Renyi Divergence with Applications to Information Leakage (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Oliver Kosut, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022
alpha-GAN: Convergence and Estimation Guarantees (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Monica Welfert, Tyler Sypherd, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022
Realizing GANs via a Tunable Loss Function (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Tyler Sypherd, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2021
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Rigorous, Responsible, and Reliable Machine Learning, 2021 (link)
Evaluating Multiple Guesses by an Adversary via a Tunable Loss Function (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Oliver Kosut, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021
Multiple Access Channel Simulation (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Viswanathan Ramachandran, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021
Optimal Communication rates and Combinatorial Properties for Common Randomness Generation (To appear. Extended version at arXiv)
Authors: Yanjun Han, Kedar Tatwawadi, Gowtham R. Kurri, Zhengqing Zhou, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, Tsachy Weissman
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021
Secure Computation to Hide Functions of Inputs (IEEEXplore | Extended version at arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020
Coordination via Shared Randomness (IEEEXplore)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2019
The Role of Interaction and Common Randomness in Two-User Secure Computation (IEEEXplore)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Jithin Ravi, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018
Coordination Using Individually shared Randomness (IEEEXplore | Extended version at arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, Anand Sarwate
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018
Selected for presentation in TPC choice session (6% of all the accepted papers were selected for this).
Journal Papers
Addressing GAN Training Instabilities via Tunable Classification Losses (To appear | arXiv)
Authors: Monica Welfert*, Gowtham R. Kurri*, Kyle Otstot, Lalitha Sankar
*Equal contribution
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2024
Unifying Privacy Measures via Maximal (alpha, beta)-Leakage (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Atefeh Gilani, Gowtham R. Kurri, Oliver Kosut, Lalitha Sankar
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024
An Operational Approach to Information Leakage via Generalized Gain Functions (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Lalitha Sankar, Oliver Kosut
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024
Multiple Access Channel Simulation (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Gowtham R. Kurri, Viswanathan Ramachandran, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022
Optimal Communication rates and Combinatorial Properties for Common Randomness Generation (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Yanjun Han, Kedar Tatwawadi, Gowtham R. Kurri, Zhengqing Zhou, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, Tsachy Weissman
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 7723-7739, Oct. 2021
Coordination Through Shared Randomness (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Gowtham R. Kurri, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, Anand Sarwate
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 4948-4974, Aug. 2021
Interactive Secure Function Computation (IEEEXplore | arXiv)
Authors: Deepesh Data*, Gowtham R. Kurri*, Jithin Ravi, Vinod M. Prabhakaran
*Equal contribution
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 5492-5521, Sept. 2020
Professional Activities
Organizing Committee Member (Local Chair), JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School 2024
Organizing Committee Member, FSTTCS 2023
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
Reviewer for ISIT 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024; ITW 2019, 2021; NCC 2019; AAAI 2020; ICML Workshop on ITR3, 2021.
Member of the Student Organization Committee for International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), 2010, held in Hyderabad.