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Speakers

Gerhard Kramer

Gerhard Kramer is Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Chair of Communications Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and the Dr. sc. techn. degree from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was with Endora Tech AG in Basel, Switzerland, and from 2000 to 2008 he was with the Math Center at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. He joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. He joined TUM in 2010.

Gerhard Kramer's research interests are primarily in information theory and communications theory, with applications to wireless, copper, and optical fiber networks. He is an IEEE Fellow and served as the 2013 President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2015.

Adrish Banerjee

Adrish received his Bachelors degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Masters and Ph.D. degree from University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been a visiting faculty to National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan and Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. Under Erasmus-Mundus program he was a visiting faculty in Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is a recipient of Microsoft Research India young faculty award, Institute of Engineers India young engineer award, and IETE-Prof. Sreenivasan Memorial Award-2016. His research interests are in the physical layer aspects of wireless communications, particularly error control coding, cognitive radio and green communications.

Rakesh K Bansal

RK Bansal got his B.Tech. with distinction from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1978 , MS and PhD from University of Connecticut , Storrs in 1983 and 1987 , respectively. All his degrees are in Electrical Engineering. After spending a year at University of Virginia, he joined Electrical Engineering faculty at IIT Kanpur. Currently , he is a Professor. His research interests center around Universal Compression , Change Detection Problem in Sequential framework and Robustness. A novel attempt to address the problem of change detection is also made using a universal compression algorithm as an entropy estimator. He has introduced number of graduate courses covering martingales and ergodic theory, stochastic integral, large deviation theory, sequential analysis and change detection, robust methods in testing and estimation and universal compression. Broadly he teaches courses covering probability and information theory.

Sibi Raj B Pillai

Sibi Raj B Pillai is an associate professor at the electrical engineering department of IIT Bombay, where he joined as an assistant professor in 2009. He obtained his doctoral degree in computer science and communications from EPFL Switzerland in 2007. He was a research fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2007 to 2009. His research interests are in network information theory, communication theory, cross layer scheduling and resource allocation. He was won the Australian early career researcher award in 2009 for excellence in communication theory.