Nirmal V. Shende
Sr. Staff Engineer (Digital Signal Processing)
Marvell Technology, Inc.
Santa Clara, USA
I am currently with the SSD DSP Architecture group at Marvell Technology, Inc.
I received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering working with Prof. Aaron B. Wagner from Cornell University in 2019. I also earned an M.E. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2010 and a B.Tech degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India in 2008.
I am a co-recipient of the 2022 Information Theory Society Paper Award.
Research Work
DSP & ML Algorithms for NAND Flash Controller [P1]
Lossy Compression of Point Processes [J6,C8]
Quantum Property Estimation [C6,J5]
Role of Feedback in Discrete Memoryless Channels [J4, C5, C7]
Multi-user Poisson Channels [C4, J3]
Half-duplex or Full-duplex Communications: Comparison Analysis under Self-interference [C3, J2]
Throughput Analysis of Primary and Secondary Networks in a Shared IEEE 802.11 System [J1]
Patent:
[P1] Nirmal V. Shende, Nedeljko Varnica "Adaptive read recovery for NAND flash memory devices ", US 12,107,603 B1
Doctoral Thesis:
The Stochastic-Calculus Approach to Selected Topics in Information Theory
Journal:
[J6] Nirmal V. Shende, Aaron B. Wagner "Functional Covering of Point Processes ", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory 3 (4), 687-698, 2022
[J5] Jayadev Acharya, Ibrahim Issa, Nirmal V. Shende, Aaron B. Wagner, "Estimating Quantum Entropy", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory 1 (2), 454-468, 2020
[J4] Aaron B. Wagner, Nirmal V. Shende, and Yücel Altuğ, "A New Method for Employing Feedback to Improve Coding Performance", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 66 (11), 6660-6681, 2020
[J3] Nirmal V. Shende and Aaron B. Wagner, The Stochastic-Calculus Approach to Multi-Receiver Poisson Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , vol. 65, no. 8, Aug. 2019
[J2] Nirmal V. Shende, Ozgur Gurbuz, Elza Erkip,Half-Duplex or Full-Duplex Communications: Degrees of Freedom Analysis under Self-Interference, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, Feb. 2018
[J1] Santhosh Kumar, Nirmal Shende, Chandra R. Murthy, and Arun Ayyagari, "Throughput Analysis of Primary and Secondary Networks in a Shared IEEE 802.11 System", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1006-1017, March 2013
Conference:
[C8] Nirmal V. Shende and Aaron B. Wagner, "Functional Covering of Point Processes ," in ISIT, 2019
[C7] Nirmal V. Shende, Aaron B. Wagner, and Yücel Altuğ, "When Does Feedback Improve the Second-Order Coding Rate in Discrete Memoryless Channels?", in ISIT, 2018
[C6] Jayadev Acharya, Ibrahim Issa, Nirmal V. Shende, Aaron B. Wagner, "Measuring Quantum Entropy", in Conference on Quantum Information Processing, 2018, and ISIT 2019
[C5] Nirmal V. Shende and Aaron B. Wagner, "On Very Noisy Channels with Feedback", in Allerton, 2017
[C4] Nirmal V. Shende and Aaron B. Wagner, "The Stochastic-Calculus Approach to Multi-Receiver Poisson Channels," in ISIT, 2016
[C3] Nirmal Shende, Ozgur Gurbuz, Elza Erkip, "Half-duplex or full-duplex relaying: A capacity analysis under self-interference," in CISS, 2013
[C2] N. Shende and B. S. Rajan, "On the achievable rate of AWGN relay channel with finite input constellations," in NCC, 2012
[C1] M. Khandwawala, N. Shende and C. R. Murthy, "Cooperative change detection using physical layer fusion," in UKIWCWS, 2009
Teaching Experience:
I have been TA for
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (Spring-17, Cornell University)
Signals and Information (Spring-16, Cornell University)
Matrix Analysis (Fall-10, IISc)
Miscellaneous :
I have been reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Comm., IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, Int. Symp. on Info Theory, Nat. Conf. on Comm., Data Compr. Conf.
I am a member of the IEEE Information Theory Society
My Erdős number is 4