Biography

Purbesh Mitra is a PhD student at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland, working under the supervision of Prof. Sennur Ulukus. Purbesh's broad research area is information theory and machine learning for goal oriented 6G communications. He has worked on communication for distributed learning and inference, information freshness, and optimization in large networks. He has developed scalable schemes for improving timeliness of gossip networks in different distributed learning settings with communication and computational overheads.

Purbesh completed his undergraduate studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. After that, he received his master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, with specialization in Communication Engineering. His master's thesis was about MIMO wireless communications systems under non-Gaussian noise, supervised by Prof. Manav Bhatnagar.