[15 Dec. 2022]: Delivered a talk titled “New Modulation Waveforms for Delay and Time-scale Spread Wideband Channels” to the OTFS SIG. The video recording is available on YouTube. Slides here.

[13 Dec. 2022]: Geethu Joseph won the IEEE SPS Best PhD Dissertation Award! Congratulations, Geethu! Her thesis: pdf Video presentation.

[02 Dec. 2022]: Arunkumar K. P successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations, Arun! Here is his Thesis.

[21 Nov. 2022]: Chandra R. Murthy is elevated as an IEEE Fellow! Here is the list of newly elevated fellows. My lab members brought me this beautiful cake, here is a photo. Rahul Vaze sketched this picture to mark the occasion. Thank you, Rahul!

[16 Nov. 2022]: L. Yashvanth won the IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant to present his accepted paper at Globecom 2022: L. Yashvanth and Chandra R. Murthy, Cascaded Channel Estimation for Distributed IRS Aided mmWave Massive MIMO Systems, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022. Congratulations, Yashvanth!

[08 Nov. 2022]: Chandra R. Murthy has elected to the IEEE SPS SAM TC. [The website will be updated to include new members in Jan. 2023.]

[20 Sep. 2022]: Our book chapter on Sparsity-aware Bayesian inference is available for free for a limited period of time, click here. Reference: Geethu Joseph, Saurabh Khanna, Chandra R. Murthy, Ranjitha Prasad, Sai Subramanyam Thoota, Sparsity-aware Bayesian inference and its applications, Handbook of Statistics, Elsevier, 2022.

[08 Jul. 2022]: Our paper on ODSS is listed in the IEEE ComSoc's best reading list in the area of Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) and Delay Doppler Signal Processing for June 2022 (click on Topic: Alternative Time-Frequency Transformation-based Modulation.) The paper is: Arunkumar K. P. and C. R. Murthy, Orthogonal Delay Scale Space Modulation: A New Technique for Wideband Time-Varying Channels, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 2625-2638, Jun. 2022.

[05 Jul. 2022]: Arunkumar K. P.'s paper won the best student paper award at SPAWC 2022. The paper is: Arunkumar K. P., Chandra R. Murthy, and P. Muralikrishna, Variable Bandwidth Multicarrier Communications: A New Waveform for the Delay-Scale Channel, 23rd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Oulu, Finland, July 2022. video. Chirag Ramesh accepted the award on Arun's behalf: Photo 1, Photo 2. Congratulations Arun!

[23 Jun. 2022]: Yashvanth's proposal titled Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Opportunistic Multi-user Communication won the “super-winner” in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022! Linkedin post. Congratulations Yashvanth!

[27 Jan. 2022]: Along with Geethu Joseph, I will be offering a tutorial titled “From Control Theory to Compressed Sensing” at the European Control Conference, London, UK, 12-15 July 2022.

[21 Jul. 2021]: Lekshmi Ramesh's paper in ISIT 2021 won the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award! The paper is: Lekshmi Ramesh, Chandra R. Murthy, Himanshu Tyagi, Multiple Support Recovery Using Very Few Measurements Per Sample, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021. Click here for the full paper. Video.

[25 Jun. 2021]: Yashvanth's proposal titled Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Opportunistic Multi-user Communication won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2021! Congratulations Yashvanth!

[12 Jun. 2021]: A complete set of video lectures and class notes for the Compressed Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing course I offered in the Jan. 2021 term is available here.

[31 May 2021]: A complete set of video lectures and class notes for the Matrix Theory course I offered in Fall 2020 is available on the NPTEL website and locally here.

[30 Apr. 2021]: Video recording of a talk titled modulo compressed sensing at the ECE Shannon Day is available on YouTube; slides.

[12 Feb. 2021]: A video recording of my talk titled “Irregular Repetition Slotted Aloha for Massive Machine-type Communications” at the ECE Webinar Series: here and here.

[09 Dec. 2020]: Two of our tutorial proposals were accepted for presentation at ICASSP 2021 (presenter names in alphabetical order):

[11 Nov. 2020]: Our submission titled “Learned Chester” to the ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge on site specific-channel estimation with hybrid mmWave MIMO systems ITU-ML5G-PS-025 won the 3rd place! This was joint work between Sai Thoota, Sameera Bharadwaja and Chandra Murthy at the Dept. of ECE, IISc Bangalore, and Rakesh Mundlamuri, Christo Thomas and Marios Kountouris at Eurecom, France. Here is the slack announcement. Here is a short description of our solution video,pdf. This solution won the “popular vote” in the grand final!” Thank you to all those who supported us!

[21 Jul. 2020]: Geethu Joseph wins the SPCOM 2020 best doctoral dissertation award! An overview presentation about Geethu Joseph's PhD thesis on the role of sparsity in linear dynamical systems: here.

[12 Jul. 2020]: A video of Lekshmi Ramesh's presentation titled Joint Structure Recovery in High Dimensional Data Using Linear Sketches at the EECS Divisional Symposium 2020 is here.

[12 Jul. 2020]: A video of Sai Subramanyam Thoota's presentation on joint channel estimation and soft-symbol decoding in massive MIMO systems with low resolution ADCs at the EECS Divisional Symposium 2020 is here. A slightly longer version of the talk, presented at the AI/ML track of the IEEE 5G World Forum 2020, is available here.

[01 Jul. 2020]: A video of Chirag Ramesh's end-of-the-year presentation for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, on the performance of irregular repetition slotted Aloha with packet capture, multiple antenna receivers, channel estimation errors, and user activity detection: here.

[14 Jan. 2020]: A recent interview of Chandra Murthy appeared in the IEEE Inside Signal Processing Newsletter.

[09 Jun. 2019]: Chirag Ramesh wins the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for 2019. Congratulations Chirag!

[02 Nov. 2018]: SECOND IISc 5G seminar series (Speaker: Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University)

[27 Aug. 2018]: FIRST IISc 5G seminar series (Speaker: Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University):Slides.

[23 Jul. 2018]: Chandra Murthy wins the Prof. Satish Dhawan state award for engineers for the year 2017.

[19 Jun. 2018]: Saurabh Khanna successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Saurabh! Slides.

[20 May 2018]: I presented a tutorial at ICC 2018 titled “The surprising effectiveness of Bayesian methods for sparse signal recovery”. Slides.

[11 May 2018]: Mohit K. Sharma successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Mohit! Slides.

[16 Apr. 2018]: Lekshmi Ramesh's paper titled “Sparse support recovery via covariance estimation” won the student best paper award at ICASSP 2018! Congratulations Lekshmi! Certificate! pdf

[20 Apr. 2017]: Saurabh Khanna won the best presentation award in the signal processing session at the EECS Divisional Symposium held on Apr. 7-8, 2017 at the Faculty Hall, IISc! Certificate!

[28 Feb. 2017]: Proposal for a GIAN course: Wireless Protocols and Spectrum Regulation Policies for IoT.

[10 Dec. 2016]: My PhD thesis advisor was selected for this year's SPS Technical Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to array processing and sparsity-based signal processing! Congratulations Prof. Rao!

[05 Nov. 2016]: Chandra Murthy was re-elected to the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the years 2017-2019.

[30 Mar. 2016]: Ranjitha Prasad wins the The Seshagiri Kaikini Medal for the best PhD dissertation from the ECE Department for the years 2014-15. Congratulations Ranjitha!

[16 Mar. 2016]: Sireesha Madabhushi's nomination for the Cisco PhD Scholarship was successful! Congratulations Sireesha! Click here for a photo!

[18 Sep. 2015]: Geethu Joseph's nomination for the Intel India PhD Fellowships program was successful! Congratulations Geethu!

[26 June 2015]: Geethu Joseph wins the Prof. I S N Murthy medal for securing the highest GPA in ME Signal Processing. Congratulations Geethu!

[25 May 2015]: Abhay Sharma successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!

Slides from my recent tutorial on Bayesian methods for sparse signal recovery: click here.

[10 Mar 2015]: Ranjitha Prasad successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis!

[29 Jan. 2015]: Parthajit Mohapatra successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!

Video recording of Abhay Sharma's PhD colloquium: click here. Some notes:

[16 Jan. 2015]: Sanjeev G. successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!

The following paper from the SPC Lab won the NCC 2014 best paper award in the communications track:
R. Prasad and C. R. Murthy, “Joint Approximately Group Sparse Channel Estimation and Data Detection in MIMO-OFDM Systems Using Sparse Bayesian Learning”, Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Kanpur, Feb. 2014. pdf

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