K. R. Sahasranand's homepage - Teaching/Talks

K. R. Sahasranand's homepage

Teaching

Instructor at IIT Palakkad:
1. Foundations of Statistical Learning (DS5616): Jan-May 2026
2. Introduction to Optimization (DS2010): Aug-Dec 2025
3. Data Structures and Algorithms for Data Science (DS2030): Aug-Dec 2025 (jointly with Dr. Narayanan C. K.)
4. Foundations of Statistical Learning (DS5616): Jan-May 2025. Lecture notes.
5. Introduction to Programming (ID1110): Jan-May 2025 (jointly with Dr. Narayanan C. K., Dr. Sahely Bhadra, and Dr. Anand T. N. C.)
6. Introduction to Optimization (DS2010): Aug-Dec 2024 (jointly with Dr. Nikhil Krishnan)
Teaching Assistant at STCS, TIFR:
1. Probability (CSS.207.1): Aug-Sep 2024
Teaching Assistant at Télécom Paris:
1. Introduction to Probability and Statistics (MICAS 902): Aug 2022
2. Information Theory (ACCQ 202): Aug-Oct 2022
3. Information Theory (TP 42) – as part of Athens (Advanced Technology Higher Education Network/Socrates): Nov 2022
4. Coding Theory (ACCQ 204): Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Teaching Assistant at ECE, IISc:

Information Theory (E2 201): Aug-Dec 2018 and 2016
Random Processes (E2 202): Aug-Dec 2017
Detection and Estimation Theory (E1 244): Jan-Apr 2014

Talks and Lectures (excluding talks at conferences with proceedings)

"Predicting with Patterns: exploring the geometry of data", Department of CSE, Ahalia School of Engineering and Technology, Palakkad, Jul 2025.
"To purr or To bark? - metaphysical musings of a misunderstood muffin", Data Science Symposium, IIT Palakkad, Jan 2025.
"An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics" at Biosciences and Bioengineering (BSBE) department, IIT Bombay, Aug 2024. Slides.
"Inference and Communication under Limited Data Access" at Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, Apr 2024.
"Proofs from X" at STCS Student Seminar, TIFR, Mumbai, Mar 2024.
"Inference, Compression, and Communication under Limited Data Access" at IIT Palakkad, Feb 2024 (online) and Nov 2023, and at STCS, TIFR, Mumbai, Jun 2023 (online).
“When does feedback increase the capacity of queues?” at Information: Theory and Applications (ITA) workshop, San Diego, Feb 2023.
“Speech Enhancement: Then to Now” at ZLabs, Zoho Corp., Chennai, May 2022.
“Tech-talks”, a lecture series covering interesting ideas in information theory for researchers at National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, Nov-Dec 2021.
“Probability – theory and applications”, a refresher course for graduate students at IISc organized by IEEE/SIAM student chapter, Aug 2021 (online) and Aug 2017.
“Distributed correlation testing” at Student Research Seminar Series organized by the IEEE-IISc Communications Society, Bangalore, Oct 2021.
“Data compression”, towards a course in information theory, part of the online course curriculum for Centre for Networked Intelligence (CNI), IISc, Bangalore, Sep 2021.
“Fault-Aware Compression for High Sampling Rate Data Acquisition in Smart Grids”, poster at Joint Telematics Group (JTG)/IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Summer School on Signal Processing, Communications and Networks, IIT Madras, Jun 2019.
"Extra Samples can Reduce the Communication for Independence Testing" at ECE Student Seminar Series, IISc, Jun 2018.
“Spectrum Sensing under Electromagnetic Interference and Fading” at JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School on Signal Processing, Communications and Networks, IISc, Jul 2015.

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