Bio / CV

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2015
  GPA: 7.9/8.0
  Advisor: Prof. P. Vijay Kumar
  Thesis: Coding Schemes for Distributed Subspace Computation, Distributed Storage and Local Correctability
• M.E. (Signal Processing), Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2005
  GPA: 7.6/8.0
  Advisor: Prof. K. V. S. Hari
  Thesis: Subspace based Direction of Arrival Estimation in Impulsive Noise using Fractional Lower Order Statistics
• B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2003
  GPA: 9.0/10.0

Work Experience

• Visiting Professor, August 2024–December 2024
  ECE Department, Indian Institute of Science, India
• Visiting Scientist, January 2024–May 2024
  Simons Institute for Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, USA
• Visiting Researcher, April 2022–May 2022
  Purdue University, USA
  Host: Prof. Vaneet Aggarwal
• Visiting Researcher, May 2016–July 2016
  University of Cambridge, UK
  Host: Prof. Ramji Venkataramanan
• Conexant Systems India Private Limited, Noida, Sept 2006 - July 2008
  Project: Baseband System Design for MOCA (Multimedia Over Coaxial Alliance) chip
• Qualcomm India Private Limited, Hyderabad, Jan 2006 - Aug 2006
  Project: Development of Signal Processing Algorithms for Qualcomm's DSP platforms
• Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, Bangalore, Aug 2005 - Dec 2005
  Project: Predictive Trend Monitoring and Diagnostics of Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) in aircrafts

Honours

• Co-author of Best paper award (Runner-Up) in National Conference on Communications (NCC) 2019
• Second Best Runner-Up for poster presentation in Microsoft TechVista 2015
• Recipient of TCS Research Scholarship 2011
• Best Demo award at WISARD 2010 for "SmartDetect: An Efficient WSN Implementation for Intrusion Detection"
• Prof ISN Murthy Medal for best M.E. student in Signal Processing 2005
• All India Rank 1 in GATE (ECE) 2003
• Gold Medal for ECE department topper, Osmania University 2003
• Student Paper Sponsorship to present "Wavelets for Integrity Monitoring" at ION-GPS 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Pratibha Scholarship awarded by Government of Andhra Pradesh 1999
• National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship 1997