Samar

I am currently with the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi.

Contact
Tel: +91-1905-267-107
Email: name AT iitmandi dot ac dot in

To Prospective Students

I am always interested in working with motivated students who have strong mathematical reasoning skills and an interest in one or more of the following: information theory, wireless communications, optimization, computer networks, and algorithms. If interested, then contact me with your detailed CV and a write-up (no more than two pages) on a research problem/area of your interest, clearly mentioning why it is important, what work/results already exist, and how do you think you can contribute to it. While preparing your write-up, remember the following quote:

He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general education and culture. -Julia Norton McCorkle

Research Areas

Information Theory, Wireless Communications and Networks, Computational and Communication Complexity

Research Interests

Relay networks, Secure Communication and Computation, Distributed compression and computation

Publications

Research Students

Ph.D.

  • Shubhrajyoti Mohapatra, 2023 - ongoing.
  • Mohd. Saif Ali Khan, 2021 - ongoing.
  • Akshay S. Vidhate, Jointly with Dr. Pradeep Kumar, 2020 - ongoing.
  • Monika Sharma, Jointly with Prof. Bharat S. Rajpurohit, 2015 - 2021.
  • Archana Sharma, Jointly with Prof. Bharat S. Rajpurohit, 2014 - 2021.
  • Ajay Bhardwaj, 2013 - 2019.

M.S.(research)

  • Anika Shrivastava, 2022 - ongoing.
  • Govind Rajendran, 2021 - ongoing.
  • Ritwik Ghoshal, 2021 - ongoing.
  • Tulika Agrawal, 2013 - 2017.

Teaching

  • Signals, Information, and Learning (Mathematical Foundations of Data Science) (Fall 2018)
  • CS208: Mathematical Foundations of CS (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
  • CS304: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (Fall 2015, Fall 2017)
  • CS513: Discrete Mathematics (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
  • DS401: Optimization for Data Science (Spring 2022)
  • EE304: Communication Theory (Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
  • EE503: Advanced Communication Theory (Fall 2013, Spring 2017, Fall 2018)
  • EE517: Wireless Communications and Networking (Spring 2016, Spring 2020)
  • EE518: Information Theory (Spring 2021)
  • EE530: Applied Optimization (Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
  • EE531: Estimation and Detection Theory (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
  • EE605: Information Theory (Fall 2012)
  • EE609: Network Information Theory (Spring 2013)
  • IC260: Signals and Systems (Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
  • HS528: Information Technology and Development (Fall 2022)
  • MA651: Optimization Techniques (Spring 2014)
  • PH511: Mathematical Physics (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019)
  • PH521: Electromagnetic Theory (Spring 2017, Spring 2018)

Academic Background

  • Ph.D. Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 2009

  • M.Sc.Engg. Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 2001

  • M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1998

  • B.Sc.(Honors) Physics, University of Delhi, 1996
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