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Abhishek Gupta


Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Class of 1986 Young Faculty Fellow
Editor, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

ACES305C, EE, IIT Kanpur

gkrabhi[AT]iitk.ac.in

(0512) 259-2001



 

Bio: Dr. Abhishek Gupta

Dr. Abhishek K. Gupta received his B.Tech.- M.Tech dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010 and PhD degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He heads the modern wireless networks group at IITK. His research is in the area of stochastic geometry and modern communication systems, including 5G, mmWave, THz, vehicular, and molecular communication.
He was recipient of IEI young engineer award (electronics and telecommunication discipline) by Institute of Engineers (India) in 2021, Class of 1986 young faculty fellowship by IIT Kanpur in 2022, IEEE wireless communication letters exemplary reviewer award in 2016, GE-FS leadership award by General Electric Foundation and Institute of International Education in 2009 and IITK academic excellence award for four consecutive years (2006-2009). He is author of the books, An introduction to stochastic geometry (Springer Morgan-Claypool, 2022), Numerical methods using MATLAB (Springer Apress, 2014), and MATLAB by examples (Finch, 2010). Before joining IITK, he was working as Sr. standards engineer at Samsung Research America in Dallas, TX, USA. In the past, he has worked in Applied Microelectronics Circuit Corporation (Pune), Futurewei Technologies (NJ) and Nokia Networks (IL).

 

Research Opportunities

  • Current Openings: I am looking for motivated Masters and PhD students to work with me on the following problems: 1. Machine Learning in Communications 2. Analysis of Molecular communication, 3. Simulation framework for 5G systems and other interesting problems in wireless systems/communication theory. 4. Stochastic geometry 5. THz communications 6. Implementation of communication systems using USRPs.
  • Project Opportunities for IITK UG Students: I am looking for motivated BTech students to work with me on in the area of Machine learning applications in communications, Implementation of communication system using USRPs, and Simulation framework for 5G systems. Interested students can contact me by email for an appointment.

 

News

  • [Workshop Chair] Aug 2023, I am organizing the Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN) at Wiopt 2023 to be held at Singapore. Register today for interesting talks.
  • [Grant Award] June 2023. Received Qualcomm 6G University research award for research in THz communcitions.
  • [Awards-students] June 2023. Nithin V Sabu received Outstanding Thesis Award for his PhD thesis at IITK convocation 2023. Congratulations Nithin.
  • [Awards-students] June 2023. Wasif J Hussain received Dr Vijay K Varma Talent award for his MTech thesis at IITK convocation 2023. Congratulations Wasif.
  • [Awards-students] April 2023: Kaushledra received ICC Conference travel grant to attend IEEE ICC 2023 at Rome. Congratulations Kaushlendra.
  • [Awards-students] April 2023 Saurabh received ISIT Student travel grant to attend ISIT 2023 at Taipei. Congratulations Saurabh.
  • [Awards-students] March 2023: MTech student Kushagra received Ansys MTech fellowship to conduct research in 5G. Congratulations Kushagra.
  • [Submitted] June 2023. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications Shuchi Tripathi, Abhishek K. Gupta, SaiDhiraj Amuru, ''On the Coverage of Cognitive mmWave Networks with Directional Sensing and Communications,'' ArXiv: 2306.01652, , , June 2023 (Link)
  • [Submitted] March 2023. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications Vikrant Malik, Gourab Ghatak, A. K. Gupta, Sanket S. Kalamkar, ''On the Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in the Presence of Blockages,'' ArXiv: 2303.07311, , , March 2023 (Link)
  • [Editor] April 2023. Abhishek Gupta has been invited to join the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions of Wireless communications as Editor. (TWC Editorial Board)
  • [Paper] April 2023. Paper accepted at IEEE ISIT, June 2023, Taiwan. Saurabh Kumar Gupta, A. K. Gupta, ''Characterizing Acceptance in Post-Selection One-Shot Quantum Hypothesis Testing,'' in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023 (Link)
  • [Paper] March. 2023. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. K. Pandey, K R Perumalla, A. K. Gupta, Harpreet S Dhillon, ''Fundamentals of Vehicular Communication Networks with Vehicle Platoons,'' IEEE Transcations on Wireless Communications, , , Early Access 2023 (Link)
  • [Submitted] Feb 2023. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications K. Pandey, A. K. Gupta, Harpreet S Dhillon, Kanaka R Perumalla, ''Properties of A Random Bipartite Geometric Associator Graph Inspired by Vehicular Networks,'' Entropy, , , April 2023 (Link)
  • [Grant] Jan 2023. Received SERB research grant on under MATRICS (Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support) on Impact of the spatio-temporal profile of a random environmental process on its sensing : An information relevance perspective.
  • [Awards-students] Jan. 2023. Shuchi received COMNETS Association PhD fellowship for QuarterOct Dec 2022. Congratulations Shuchi.
  • [Paper] Jan 2023. Paper accepted at IEEE ICC, May 2023, Rome, Italy. K. Pandey, A. K. Gupta and K R Perumalla, , ''Vehicular Communication Networks with Platooned Vehicles: Modeling and Analysis,'' in Proc. IEEE ICC, Rome Italy, May 2023 (Link)
  • [Paper] Jan 2023. Paper accepted at IEEE ICC, May 2023, Rome, Italy. K. Pandey, Aman Pandey, A. K. Gupta and Harpreet S Dhillon, '' Coverage Analysis of a THz Cellular Network in the Presence of Scatterers,'' in Proc. IEEE ICC, Rome Italy, May 2023 (Link)
  • [Paper] Jan 2023. Paper accepted at NCC, Feb. 2023, Guwahati India. Rangesh P. K. Pandey, A. K. Gupta, ''On the Performance of Communication in a Vehicular Network with Platooned Traffic,'' in Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), Guwahati, India, Feb 2023 (Link)
  • [Paper] Dec. 2022. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communications. Nithin V S , A. K. Gupta, N Varsney and A Jindal, ''Channel Characterization and Performance of a 3-D Molecular Communication System with Multiple Fully-Absorbing Receivers,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 71 (2), pp. 714-727, Feb. 2023 (Link)
  • [Award] Oct 2022. Received IEI Young Engineer Award 2021 for Electronics and Telecommunications from the Institution of Engineers (India). (Details)
  • [Short Course] 12th- 14th Dec 2022. A short course on 5G and Beyond: What is next? Register today to reserve a seat at Event Website.
  • [Paper] July 2022. Paper accepted at ACM Nanocom, Oct 2022, Barcelona, Spain. Nithin V S and A. K. Gupta, ''On the Target Detection Performance of a Molecular Communication Network with Multiple Mobile Nanomachines,'' in Proc. ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication Nanocom 2022 (Accepted, Not presented), Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2022 (Link)
  • [Paper] July 2022. Paper accepted at ACM Nanocom, Oct 2022, Barcelona, Spain. Lakshay Tyagi, A. K. Gupta and Nithin V S , ''Analysis of A Molecular Ad Hoc Network with Passive Receivers,'' in Proc. ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication Nanocom 2022 (Accepted, Not presented), Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2022 (Link)
  • [Invited Talk] July 2022. Invited talk at CNI, IISc, Bangalore, July 2022.
  • [Awards-students] June 2022. Vikrant Malik received Samares Kar Memorial Gold Medal for his BTech project at IITK convocation 2022. Congratulations Vikrant.
  • [Paper-J] June 2022. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. Afaq A Lone, A. K. Gupta, Harpreet S Dhillon, Somya Sharma, ''Coverage and Rate in MIMO Cellular Networks with Location-Aware Transmission Rank Selection,'' IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, 11(10), pp. 2026-2030, Oct. 2022 (Link)
  • [Submitted] June 2022. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications K. Pandey, K R Perumalla, A. K. Gupta, Harpreet S Dhillon, ''Fundamentals of Vehicular Communication Networks with Vehicle Platoons,'' IEEE Transcations on Wireless Communications, , , Early Access 2023 (Link)
  • [Paper] May 2022. Paper accepted at SPCOM, July 2022, IISc Bangalore. Sagnik Bhattacharya and A. K. Gupta, ''Deep Learning for THz Channel Estimation and Beamforming Prediction via Sub-6GHz Channel,'' in Proc. SPCOM 2022, IISc Bangalore, July 2022 (Link)
  • [Invited/Conf Talk] May 2022. Invited talk at NCC, May 2022, IITB India. ''Diversity Combining in a Single-Input-Multiple-Output Molecular Communication System,'' at NCC (Invited Talk), IIT Bombay, May 2022 (Video Link)
  • [Invited Talk] May 2022. Invited talk at NITR, May 2022.
  • [Paper-J] May 2021. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communication. Saurabh Kumar Gupta, Vikrant Malik, A. K. Gupta and J. G. Andrews, ''Impact of Blocking Correlation on the Performance of mmWave Cellular Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70(7), pp. 4925-4939, July 2022 (Link)
  • [Award] April 2022. Received Class of 1986 Young faculty fellowship for 2022-2025. (Details)
  • [Paper] April 2022. Paper accepted at IEEE ICC, May 2022, Seoul, South Korea. Nithin V S , A. K. Gupta, Neeraj Varshney, Anshuman Jindal, ''Impact of Multiple Fully-Absorbing Receivers in Molecular Communications,'' in Proc. IEEE ICC Workshop- 6G-eHealth-Sec, Seoul South Korea, May 2022 (Link)
  • [Paper-J] Dec. 2021. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communication. Kanchan Chaurasia, Reena Sahu, Shuchi Tripathi and A. K. Gupta, ''Coverage Analysis of Broadcast Networks with Users Having Heterogeneous Content/Advertisement Preferences,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70(3), pp. 2057-2071, March 2022 (Link)
  • [Awards-students] Dec 2021. P. K. Raju, an MTech from our group, received Vijay Varma Talent Award 2021 for the MTech thesi3 work on vehicular communciation at IITK convocation 2021. Congratulations, Raju.
  • [Awards-students] Dec. 2021. Sandeep Routray received Samares Kar Memorial Gold Medal for his BTech project at IITK convocation 2021. Congratulations Sandeep.
  • [Submitted] Dec. 2021. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. Afaq A Lone, A. K. Gupta, Harpreet S Dhillon, Somya Sharma, ''Coverage and Rate in MIMO Cellular Networks with Location-Aware Transmission Rank Selection,'' IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, 11(10), pp. 2026-2030, Oct. 2022 (Link)
  • [Submitted] Dec. 2021. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Transactions on Communications. Nithin V S , A. K. Gupta, N Varsney and A Jindal, ''Channel Characterization and Performance of a 3-D Molecular Communication System with Multiple Fully-Absorbing Receivers,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 71 (2), pp. 714-727, Feb. 2023 (Link)
  • [Submitted] Dec. 2021. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Transactions on Communications. Saurabh Kumar Gupta, Vikrant Malik, A. K. Gupta and J. G. Andrews, ''Impact of Blocking Correlation on the Performance of mmWave Cellular Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70(7), pp. 4925-4939, July 2022 (Link)
  • [Conf Talk] Nov 2021. Talk at ASILOMAR, Nov 2021, Pacific Grove, USA. ''Coverage Analysis of Cognitive mmWave Networks with Directional Sensing,'' at ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2021 (Video Link)
  • [Paper-J] Sept 2021. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communication. Nithin V S , N. Varsney and A. K. Gupta, ''On the Performance of the Primary and Secondary Links in a 3-D Underlay Cognitive Molecular Communication,'' IEEE Trans. Communications, 69(12), pp. 8028-8041 , Dec. 2021 (Link)
  • [Conf Talk] Sept. 2021. Talk at IEEE PIMRC, Sep 2021, Helsinki, Findland ''Where to Deploy Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in the Presence of Blockages?,'' at IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 2021 (Video Link)
  • [Paper] July 2021. Paper accepted at ASILOMAR, Nov 2021, Pacific Grove, USA. Shuchi Tripathi, A. K. Gupta and SaiDhiraj Amuru, ''Coverage Analysis of Cognitive mmWave Networks with Directional Sensing,'' in Proc. ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2021 (Link)
  • [Awards-Students] July 2021. Nithin Sabu, a PhD student from our research group, was a finalist in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, India (Details). Congratulations Nithin.
  • [Paper-J] July 2021. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Communication Letters. A. K. Gupta, Reena Sahu, Kanchan Chaurasia and Shuchi Tripathi, ''On the Analysis of a Cellular Network with Macro-diversity using Stochastic Geometry,'' IEEE Communication Letters, 25(10), pp. 3244-3248 , July. 2021 (Link)
  • [Paper] June 2021. Paper accepted at PIMRC, Sept 2021, Helsinki, Findland. Gourab Ghatak, Vikrant Malik, Sanket S. Kalamkar, and A. K. Gupta, ''Where to Deploy Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in the Presence of Blockages?,'' in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 2021 (Link)
  • [Awards-students] May 2021. RISE@IITK ranked 14 among 30 teams in IEEE ICASSP SPCUP 2021. Congratulations.
  • [Paper] April 2021. Paper accepted at ICC, June 2021, Montreal Canada. Reena Sahu, Kanchan Chaurasia, and A. K. Gupta, ''On the Coverage of Broadcast Networks with Multiple Transmitters and Heterogeneous Users,'' in Proc. IEEE ICC Workshop (Emerging6G-Com), Montreal Canada, June 2021 (Link)
  • [Chapter] April 2020. Book chapter on mmWave and THz for 6G: Shuchi Tripathi, Nithin V S , A. K. Gupta and Harpreet S Dhillon, ''Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Spectrum for 6G Wireless,'' in 6G Mobile Wireless Networks, Springer. 2021 (Link)
  • [Submitted] Feb. 2021. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Transactions on Communications. Nithin V S , N. Varsney and A. K. Gupta, ''On the Performance of the Primary and Secondary Links in a 3-D Underlay Cognitive Molecular Communication,'' IEEE Trans. Communications, 69(12), pp. 8028-8041 , Dec. 2021 (Link)
  • [Submitted] Jan 2021. Journal paper submitted at IEEE Transactions on Communications. Kanchan Chaurasia, Reena Sahu, Shuchi Tripathi and A. K. Gupta, ''Coverage Analysis of Broadcast Networks with Users Having Heterogeneous Content/Advertisement Preferences,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70(3), pp. 2057-2071, March 2022 (Link)
  • [Paper-J] Jan 2021. Journal paper accepted at Statistics and Probability Letters. K. Pandey and A. K. Gupta, ''kth Distance Distributions for Generalized Gauss-Poisson Process in Rn,'' Statistics and Probability Letters, 172,pp 109048 , May 2021 (Link)
  • [Paper-J] Jan 2021. Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing. Deepak Singh Kalhan, A. S. Bedi, A. Koppel, K. Rajawat, H. Hassani, A. K. Gupta, and A. Banerjee, ''Dynamic Online Learning via Frank-Wolfe Algorithm,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69 pp 932-947, Jan 2021 (Link)
  • [Awards-Students] Dec 2020. Saurabh Gupta, a PhD student from our research group, has been selected for the prestigious Prime minister research fellowship (PMRF). Congratulations Saurabh.
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About

Dr. Abhishek K. Gupta received his B.Tech.- M.Tech dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010 and PhD degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He heads the modern wireless networks group at IITK. His research is in the area of stochastic geometry and modern communication systems, including 5G, mmWave, THz, vehicular, and molecular communication.
He was recipient of IEI young engineer award (electronics and telecommunication discipline) by Institute of Engineers (India) in 2021, Class of 1986 young faculty fellowship by IIT Kanpur in 2022, IEEE wireless communication letters exemplary reviewer award in 2016, GE-FS leadership award by General Electric Foundation and Institute of International Education in 2009 and IITK academic excellence award for four consecutive years (2006-2009). He is author of the books, An introduction to stochastic geometry (Springer Morgan-Claypool, 2022), Numerical methods using MATLAB (Springer Apress, 2014), and MATLAB by examples (Finch, 2010). Before joining IITK, he was working as Sr. standards engineer at Samsung Research America in Dallas, TX, USA. In the past, he has worked in Applied Microelectronics Circuit Corporation (Pune), Futurewei Technologies (NJ) and Nokia Networks (IL).


Awards/Achievements

  • Invited to join the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions of Wireless communications as Editor. (TWC Editorial Board) . March 2023-2024
  • Received Qualcomm 6G university research grant award. June 2023
  • Received Ansys Research grant, March 2023
  • IEI Young Engineer Award 2021 for Electronics and Telecommunications from the Institution of Engineers (India). (Details)
  • Class of 1986 Young Faculty fellowship. March 2022- Feb. 2025. (Details).
  • Commendation letter for teaching in 2020-2021 I Semester for EE621A Course
  • Commendation letter for teaching in 2017-2018 II Semester for EE698O Course
  • Start-up research grant award from SERB in Dec 2019
  • Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, 2016
  • GE Foundation Leadership Award by General Electric (GE) Foundation and Institute of International Education (I.I.E.) for academic year 2009-2010 for excellence in academics and future potential.
  • Academic Excellence Award, IITK, 2008-09
  • Academic Excellence Award, IITK, 2007-08
  • Academic Excellence Award, IITK, 2006-07
  • Academic Excellence Award, IITK, 2005-06
  • Dharam Hinduja Scholarship, 2003-2010

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
July 2017 - Current

He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.


Senior Standards Engineer, Samsung Research America, Dallas, USA
Oct 2016 - July 2017

Work involved 5G standardization, active participation in 3GPP standards meetings, performance evaluation of new technologies and innovation efforts.


Design Engineer, Applied Micro, Pune, India
Mar 2012 - Dec 2014

Work involved design and verification of multiple design blocks including SATA 2.0, USB 3.0 and Queue manager interface on SOC level using Verilog/System Verilog/OVM..


Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Texas at Austin
Aug 2012- Oct 2016

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
PhD Thesis: Association and spectrum sharing in cellular networks


Master of Technology (MTech), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2005 - 2010

Department of Electrical Engineering.
Master Thesis: Beneficial impact of antenna correlation


Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2005 - 2010

Department of Electrical Engineering