SPiN Lab Directory

Faculty


Dr. Ketan Rajawat

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
ACES-307
Email: ketan@iitk.ac.in


Students


Nutalapati Mohan Krishna

Education: B.Tech (GMR Institute of technology, Rajam)
Batch: 2014-present
Area of Interest: Robotics, SLAM, Trajectory Optimization, Non-convex Optimization, Online Learning
E-Mail ID: nmohank@iitk.ac.in


Atanu Samanta

Education: M.E (BESU, Shibpur), B.Tech (WBUT, Kolkata)
Batch: 2015-present
Area of Interest: Behavioral signal processing, Affect analysis using visual cues, Modeling affective gestures, Machine learning
E-Mail ID: samanta@iitk.ac.in


Hrusikesha Pradhan

Education:M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.Tech (SOA University,Bhubaneswar)
Batch: 2016-present
Area of Interest: Robust Optimization, Online Non-parametric Function Learning, Gaussian processes regression, Precoder Design, Distributed Optimization
E-Mail ID: hpradhan@iitk.ac.in


Yogesh Darmwal

Education: M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.Tech (K E C Dwarahat, Uttarakhand)
Batch: 2016-present
Area of Interest: Optimization over manifolds, Algorithm design, Theoretical machine learning, Statistical learning theory, Information theory
E-Mail ID: yogeshd@iitk.ac.in


Zeeshan Akhtar

Education: M.Tech (AMU, Aligarh), B.Tech (Integral University Lucknow)
Batch: 2016-present
Area of Interest: Convex Optimization, Wireless Communications, Statistical signal processing
E-Mail ID: zeeshan@iitk.ac.in


Panchajanya Sanyal

Education: M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.Tech (MAKAUT, West Bengal)
Batch: 2016-present
Area of Interest: Convex Optimization, Machine Learning,
E-Mail ID: sanyal@iitk.ac.in


Basil M. Idrees

Education: M.Tech (AMU, Aligarh), B.Tech (AMU, Aligarh)
Batch: 2017-present
Area of Interest: Stochastic Non-Convex Optimization, ML Algorithms, Wireless Communication
E-Mail ID: basilmi@iitk.ac.in


Shivangi Dubey

Education: M.Tech (LNMIIT Jaipur), B.Tech (U.I.E.T., Kanpur)
Batch: 2017-present
Area of Interest: Convex optimization in signal processing
E-Mail ID: shivad@iitk.ac.in


Lavish Arora

Batch: 2019-present
Education: B.Tech (IIT, Kanpur), MS (IIT Kanpur)
Area of Interest: Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Multi sensor Calibration
E-Mail ID: lavi@iitk.ac.in


Abhishek Kumar Shukla

Batch: 2020-present
Education: B.Tech (MJPRU, Bareilly), MS (MANIT, Bhopal)
Area of Interest: Convex optimization in signal processing
E-Mail ID: abhisheks20@iitk.ac.in


Lavish Arora

Batch: 2015-2019
Education: B.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Area of Interest:Wireless Communications, Estimation and Detection, Signal Processing
E-Mail ID: lavi@iitk.ac.in


Harsh Vardhan

Batch: 2017-present
Education: B.Tech (RGPV, Bhopal)
Area of Interest:MIMO, RADAR
E-Mail ID: vharsh@iitk.ac.in


Abhinav Tripathi

Education: B.Tech (IIT Kanpur)
Area of Interest: Visual SLAM, Feature Detectors and Descriptors
E-Mail ID:abhinavt@iitk.ac.in


Anand Mehrotra

Education: B.Tech (KNIT, Sultanpur)
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID: manand@iitk.ac.in


Ayushi Parwar

Education: B.Tech (SGSITS Indore, Madhya Pradesh)
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID: ayuship@iitk.ac.in , ayushiparwar001@gmail.com


Himanshi Sharma

Education: B.Tech (SKIT,Jaipur)
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization, IoT applications
E-Mail ID: himshi.iitk@gmail.com, himshi@iitk.ac.in


Pranjali Jain

Education: B.Tech(JEC, Jabalpur)
Area of Interest: Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID: prajain@iitk.ac.in


Shivani Agarwal

Education: B.Tech (RBS Engineering College, Agra)
Area of Interest:Stochastic and Online Optimization, Machine Learning, wireless communication, Optimization for signal processing and communication.
E-Mail ID:shivagr@iitk.ac.in


Shubhanshu Khandelwal

Education: B.Tech (IIT Kanpur)
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID:shubhke@iitk.ac.in


Yogesh Maurya

Education: B.Tech (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat)
Area of Interest:Optimization Techniques, Wireless Technologies.
E-Mail ID: ymourya@iitk.ac.in, yogeshmaurya94@gmail.com


Abhishek Chakraborty

Education: B.Tech (KGEC, WB)
Thesis Title:Online Asynchronous Function Learning over Distributed Networks
Area of Interest: Convex Optimization, Machine Learning, Functional Learning, Distributed functional Optimization
E-Mail ID:chakrabortyabhishek1994@gmail.com
Current Designation: Member of technical staff (MTS SW2), NetApp


Bhargav Ganguly

Education: B.Tech (IIT Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Compressed Online Multi-class Kernel Bandit Learning
Area of Interest:Machine Learning, Convex optimization techniques
E-Mail ID: gangulyb15@gmail.com
Current Designation:Quantitative Research Analyst, JPMorgan Chase & Co.


Megha.P.R

Education: B.Tech(Govt. Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakad, Kerala)
Thesis Title:Quantized Distributed First Order Algorithms and Generalized Convergence Analysis
Area of Interest: Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID: meghapr27@gmail.com
Current Designation:Associate Engineer, Airbus


Prafulla Kumar Pandey

Education: B.Tech (BIET,Jhansi)
Thesis Title:A LoRaWAN based IoT setup for water quality monitoring
Area of Interest:Optimization Techniques in various applications
E-Mail ID:prafulla.ec@gmail.com
Current Designation:DRDO


Ritika Gaur

Education: B.Tech (HBTI Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Distributed ADMM for Constrained Non-Convex Problems
Area of Interest:Optimization in networks and communication
E-Mail ID: ritikag@iitk.ac.in
Current Designation:


Sai Aditya Chundi

Education: B.Tech (IIT Madras)
Thesis Title:A Communication Architecture for UAV swarms
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID: saiaditya.chundi@gmail.com
Current Designation: Engineer, Qualcomm


Shibil K

Education: B.Tech (NIT Calicut)
Thesis Title:Getting the most out of EV Parking: A Scalable RL-based Approach.
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication
E-Mail ID: shibilkarad@gmail.com
Current Designation:Engineer, Qualcomm


Arpit Chitransh

Education: B.Tech (Jaypee University of Information Technology)
Thesis Title:Collusion Resistant Regret Minimization in Second-Price Auctions
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in SPCOM
E-Mail ID: arpitchitransh28@gmail.com
Current Designation:Engineer, Qualcomm


Ashish Sharma

Education: B.Tech
Thesis Title:Asynchronous Successive Convex Optimization With Application To Communication Systems
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in SPCOM
E-Mail ID: Ashishsharma201112@gmail.com
Current Designation: Graphic Hardware Engineer, Intel


Lijanshu Sinha

Education: B.Tech (Techno India, WBUT, Kolkata)
Thesis Title: Primal Dual Method of Multipliers for Large-Scale Problems
Area of Interest:Wireless Communication, Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communication.
E-Mail ID: sinhalijanshu04@gmail.com
Current Designation:Core Digital Design Engineer, Intel


M.Sai Krishna

Education: B.Tech(GRIET,Hyderabad)
Thesis Title: Accelerated Stochastic Successive Convex Optimization
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in SPCOM
E-Mail ID: sai.krishna13594@gmail.com
Current Designation:Pre-Si Verification Engineer, Intel


Salony Mittal

Education: B.tech (Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar)
Thesis Title: Gradient Tracking for Time-varying Problems
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in signal processing and communication
E-Mail ID: salonymittal94@gmail.com
Current Designation: CNS Officer, Airport Authority of India


Akshay Kumar

Education: B.Tech(Dual)
Thesis Title: Stochastic optimization for SLAM Kumar
Area of Interest:Mobile robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
E-Mail ID: akshakr@iitk.ac.in


Imran Mohammed

Education: B.Tech(Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies)
Thesis Title: Power System-State Estimation for Delayed and Lost Measurements
Area of Interest:Power systems state estimation, Optimal state estimation
E-Mail ID:imran.mohammed@students.mq.edu.au
Current Designation: MRES student, Macquarie University


Uttkarsha Bhatt

Education: B.Tech (Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Uttarakhand)
Thesis Title: Online Variational Bayesian Principal Component Filtering
Area of Interest: Signal Processing in Communication
E-Mail ID:uttkarshabhatt@gmail.com
Current Designation: SOC Design Engineer, Intel India


Vishakha Bargotra

Education: B.Tech(Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K )
Thesis Title:Comparing Stationary Signals on Graphs
Area of Interest:Computer Networks, Wireless Communication
E-Mail ID: vish2698319@yahoo.com
Current Designation: Edison Engineer, GE Transportation India


Addepalli Mohana Giridhar

Education: B.Tech (GMR Institute of Technology, A.P.)
Thesis Title:Sequential Change Detection in Distributed Systems using Non Parametric Algorithms
Area of Interest:Wireless Communications, Estimation and Detection, Signal Processing
E-Mail ID: giridhar@iitk.ac.in


Md Atibuddin

Education: B.Tech (Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata)
Thesis Title:Doubly Robust Smoothing of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Area of Interest: Filtering and Smoothing of Non-Linear Dynamic systems
E-Mail ID: atib@iitk.ac.in


Paban Sarma

Education: B.Tech (Tezpur University, Assam)
Thesis Title:Dynamic Convex Optimization and Tracking
Area of Interest:Convex Optimization in signal processing and communication
E-Mail ID: pabans@iitk.ac.in


Palash Katiyar

Education: B.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Content Migration and Placement in Data Storage Networks
Area of Interest:Communication in Distributed Networks
E-Mail ID: katipala@iitk.ac.in, katiyar.palash@gmail.com


Pawan Kumar Barnwal

Education: B.Tech (Malaviya National Institute of Technology(MNIT), Jaipur)
Thesis Title:Biased Flow-size Distribution Estimation
Area of Interest: Computer Network and optimization , Wireless Communication
E-Mail ID:pbarnwal@iitk.ac.in


Praneeth Bobba

Education: B.Tech (JNTUK University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram)
Thesis Title:Wide Area State Estimation Under Communication Delays and Losses
Area of Interest:Applications of Optimization, Inferential Statistics and Machine Learning
E-Mail ID: prbobba@iitk.ac.in


Sandeep Gudla

Education: B.Tech & PUC (Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (APIIIT - Nuzvid), A.P)
Thesis Title:Non-Convex Optimization via Stochastic ADMM
Area of Interest:stochastic and distributed optimization algorithms and applications
E-Mail ID: sandeepgudla64@gmail.com


Aniket Gargelwar

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Spatio-Temporal Spectrum Hole Detection with Multiple Primary Users
Area of Interest:
E-Mail ID:
Current Designation: Design Engineer II, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation


Boda Mohan

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Online Tracking Of Low Rank Matrices From Partial Observations
Area of Interest:Signal Processing, Wireless communications and Computer Networks
E-Mail ID: mohannaikece33@gmail.com
Current Designation: Application Developer at Oracle India, Hyderabad


Narasimha Reddy Aeddula

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Localization enhancement of wireless sensor networks
Area of Interest:Localization of WSN, Convex Optimization, Data Warehousing
E-Mail ID: narasimhareddy1207@gmail.com
Current Designation: Member Technical Staff-2, NetApp India Pvt Ltd.


P V Aditya Prasad

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur), B.Tech (Sir Crr college of Eng.,AP.)
Thesis Title:Battery Management Through Real Time Pricing
Area of Interest:Numerical optimization and data mining
E-Mail ID: adityaprasad.123@gmail.com
Current Designation: Application Developer, Oracle Corporation Ltd., Hyderabad


Pradyumn Singh

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Calibration and mapping for soot monitoring
Area of Interest:Machine learning
E-Mail ID: pradyumns3@gmail.com
Current Designation: Data Scientist, Deloitte US Consulting


Prasad Alatkar

Education: M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.E (SKN college of engineering, Pune)
Thesis Title:Learning Dynamical Processes Over Graph Via SSDL
Area of Interest:convex optimization, wireless communication
E-Mail ID: prasad.alatkar.2016@iitkalumni.org
Current Designation: Engineer, MST, Qualcomm


Rahul Jain

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Distributed cooperative localization via ADMM
Area of Interest:Localization of WSN, Convex Optimization, Data Warehousing
E-Mail ID: rahuljain2104@gmail.com
Current Designation: Engineer, Numerify.com


Rajeev Kumar

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Channel Tracking and Estimation Transmit Beamforming With Frugal Feedback using KF And Quantized-KF
Area of Interest:
E-Mail ID:rajeev2k6@gmail.com
Current Designation:Lecturer, MNNIT Allahabad


Sumit Kumar

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur), B.Tech (Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow)
Thesis Title:Optimal Encoder Design & Sensor Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Network
Area of Interest:Wireless Sensor Networks
E-Mail ID: smka1186@yahoo.co.in
Current Designation: Member Technical Staff-2, NetApp India Pvt Ltd.


Surya Viswanadh Kandula

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Stochastic resource allocation in device to device communication
Area of Interest:Wireless Sensor Networks
E-Mail ID: viswanadh.534@gmail.com
Current Designation: Software engineer - 1, Fair Isaac corporation (FICO)


Gaurav Kapoor

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur),B.Tech(Punjab Technical University,Jalandhar)
Thesis Title:Dynamic Robust Spectrum Sensing and Malicious user Tracking in Cognitive Radio Network
Area of Interest:Spectrum Sensing in cognitive radio and Dynamic Spectrum Access.
E-Mail ID: gkapoor.ddn@gmail.com
Current Designation: Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Organization


Puneet Pandey

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Spatio-Temporal Opportunity Detction with Multiple Primary Users Area of Interest:
E-Mail ID:
Current Designation: Senior Software Engineer at Samsung R & D Institute India - Bangalore


Rahul Singh

Education: M.Tech (IIT Kanpur),B.E.(Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai)
Thesis Title:Linear Decentralized Tracking in Power-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
Area of Interest:Routing, L2-L3 Switching, Hardware and Software Virtualization, Data Center Technology, Mobile Communication and Optical Communication
E-Mail ID: rahul.rajesh.singh@gmail.com
Current Designation: Software Engineer II, Cisco System Inc, Bangalore


Raju Kumar

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Localization using Velocity Multidimensional Scaling (VMDS)
Area of Interest:Signal Processing , Networking, Wireless sensor networks and Computer programming
E-Mail ID: raaj0505@gmail.com
Current Designation: Software Analyst, Saggezza India Pvt. Ltd.


Ritesh Tyagi

Education: M.Tech (IIT, Kanpur)
Thesis Title:Distributed Asynchronous Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Area of Interest:
E-Mail ID:
Current Designation:


Vivek Tomar

Education: M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.Tech(Aligarh Muslim University)
Thesis Title:OFDM System in Aeronautical Channel
Area of Interest:Signal Processing and Wireless sensor networks
E-Mail ID: vivek.kr.tomar@gmail.com
Current Designation: Member Research Staff, Central Research Laboratory (BEL)


Sandeep Kumar

Education: Ph.D.(IIT Kanpur), M.Tech(IIT Kanpur), B.Tech (COER,Roorkee)
Batch: 2013-2017
Thesis Title: Non-Convex Optimization over Networks
Area of Interest: Parallel and distributed signal processing, optimization and learning over networks, localization and dynamic network monitoring
E-Mail ID: eesandeep@ust.hk
Current Designation: Assiatant Professor, EE, IIT Delhi (Past: Post Doc, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Amrit Singh Bedi

Education: Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur), M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.Tech (RBIEBT, Mohali)
Batch: 2013-2018
Thesis Title: Distributed and Online Learning with Stochastic Gradient Methods
Area of Interest: Stochastic algorithms for resource allocation in wireless networks, Demand side management in smart grid, Distributed optimization, Transceiver optimization in MIMO/OFDM systems.
E-Mail ID: amrit0714@gmail.com
Current Designation: Research Scientist with Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, MD, USA. (Past: Post Doc, Computational and Information Sciences(CISD), Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland, USA)


Javed Akhtar

Education: Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur), M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.E. (LNCT,Bhopal)
Batch: 2014-2019
Thesis Title: Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Transceiver Design and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
Area of Interest:Wireless Communications, Statistical Learning and Decision Theory, Convex Optimization
E-Mail ID: javeda2309@gmail.com
Current Designation: System Developer, Ericsson AB, Stockholm


Chirag Kumar

Education: Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur), M.Tech (YMCAUST, Faridabad), B.Tech (NCCE, Panipat)
Batch: 2012-2019
Thesis Title: Applications and Algorithms for Discriminatory Dictionary Learning
Area of Interest: Spectrum sensing, Machine Learning, Indoor Localization, Statistical Signal Processing
E-Mail ID: chiragarora35@gmail.com
Current Designation: Assistant Professor, The LNM IIT, Jaipur


Ruchi Tripathi

Education: Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur), M.Tech (JKIAPT, University of Allahabad), B.Tech (JKIAPT, University of Allahabad)
Batch: 2012-2019
Thesis Title: Dynamic Low Rank Matrix Completion
Area of Interest: AI/ML for communication, Matrix Completion, Network Latency Monitoring, Wireless Communication,Convex Optimization
E-Mail ID: ruchi@iitk.ac.in
Current Designation: Project Executive Officer, IIT Kanpur


Srujan Teja Thomdapu

Education: Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur), B.Tech (Vignan's Engineering College, Vadlamudi)
Batch: 2014-2022
Thesis Title: Constrained Stochastic Convex Optimization Problems and Applications
Area of Interest:Network Optimization in Video delivery, Optimization algorithms for resource allocation problems in networks, Convex Optimization techniques for signal processing and communication problems
E-Mail ID: srujant@iitk.ac.in
Current Designation: Associate Research Staff, V-Labs Bangalore