About Me

I am a fifth year PhD candidate in the Wireless Communication and Sensornets Laboratory (WCSL) advised by Professor Upamanyu Madhow at University of California, Santa Barbara. My broad area of research interests include mmWave Wireless Communication Systems and Radar Signal Processing.

My research centers on developing robust and efficient short-range and long-range Line-of-Sight (LoS) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication systems. Lately, I have been expanding my focus into the area of Integrated Communication and Sensing, specifically working on self-calibrating, distributed MIMO radar networks designed for real-time detection and tracking of moving targets.

I am actively pursuing internship opportunities for Spring 2025 / Summer 2025, where I can apply my expertise in Line-of-Sight MIMO communication systems, signal processing for wireless links, machine learning, and mmWave radar systems. Particularly I am interested in tackling system-level challenges and exploring the intersection of machine learning with wireless communications.

Publications

L.Giridhar, U. Madhow and M. J. W. Rodwell, "Creating Spatial Degrees of Freedom for Long-range LoS MIMO using Reflect-arrays", IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication Conference (SPAWC), Lucca, Italy, Sept. 2024
L.Giridhar and U. Madhow, "Spatial Oversampling for Robust LoS MIMO” (under review for IEEE TWC)
L. Giridhar, M. E. Rasekh, A. D. Sezer and U. Madhow, "Adaptive Space-Time Equalization with Spatial Oversampling for Misaligned LoS MIMO,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Austin, TX, USA, Apr. 2022
L. Giridhar, A. D. Pillai, V. Guruvaiah, “A Novel Approach to OCR Using Image Recognition Based Classification for Ancient Tamil Inscriptions in Temples”, arXiv:1907.04917.

News

Sep 2024 : Attended Techcon 2024 at Austin TX, and presented our work on Spatial Oversampling for Robust LoS MIMO

Aug 2024 : Successfully completed my PhD Qualifier and advanced to candidacy!

July 2024 : Our work "Creating Spatial Degrees of Freedom for Long-range LoS MIMO using Reflect-arrays" has been accepted for publication at IEEE SPAWC 2024 conference in Lucca, Italy

June 2024 : Was a graduate student mentor for the Engineering Capstone project Percept this academic year!

Oct 2023 : Happy to be a featured in the SRC student spotlight this month!

Sep 2023 : Attended Techcon 2023 at Austin TX, and presented our work on using Reflect-arrays for Long-Range LoS MIMO Links

July 2023 : Happy to be featured in the 'Young Investigators' spotlight at the CUbiC Annual Review at Columbia University, NYC, this year!

Mar 2023 : Received my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a major in Wireless Communications!

Sep 2022 : Attended Techcon 2022 at Austin TX, and presented our work on using Spatial Oversampling for Misaligned LoS MIMO

June 2022 : Mentored the Engineering Capstone project Mimmo this academic year!

April 2022 : Presented our accepted work titled "Adaptive Space-Time Equalization with Spatial Oversampling for Misaligned LoS MIMO" at the IEEE WCNC conference at Austin, TX

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