Work Experience

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow (Sep 2022 - Present)
  Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Palakkad
  
• Assistant Professor (Jul 2021 - Aug 2022)
  IIIT Bangalore
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2019 - Jun 2021)
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
  Supervisor: Prof. Ashish Khisti
  
• Research Associate (May 2019 - Oct 2019)
  Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore
  Supervisor: Prof. P. Vijay Kumar

Education

• Ph.D. (Jul 2014 - May 2019)
  Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore
  Thesis: On Streaming Codes, Regenerating Codes and Locality-Aided Decoding
  Supervisor: Prof. P. Vijay Kumar
  
• M.E. Telecommunications (Jul 2011 - Jul 2013)
  Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore
  Thesis: Coding for Distributed Storage
  Supervisor: Prof. P. Vijay Kumar
  
• B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (Jul 2007 - May 2011)
  Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri Campus
  Thesis: Fractal Image Compression
  Supervisors: Prof. Karthi Balasubramanian and Prof. Nithin Nagaraj

Research Area:

• Low-latency communications
• Distributed learning
• Distributed storage