Dr. Nujoom Sageer Karat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. He received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Calicut in 2012 and completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore in 2020. He later worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay until September 2021, following which he served as an INSPIRE Faculty at NIT Calicut before joining the institute as a full-time faculty member.
Prior to his doctoral research, he gained industry experience as an Engineer at Renesas Mobile India Private Limited and Broadcom India.
His research interests lie broadly in information theory, coding theory, and modern communication systems, with a specific focus on coded caching and content delivery, index coding, and index coding for NOMA, communication efficiency in federated learning, private information retrieval, and coded distributed computation. His work is centered on developing communication-efficient algorithms and coding frameworks for emerging distributed and intelligent networked systems.