Yashvanth L.

I am a (direct) Ph.D. student at the Dept. of ECE, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. My advisor is Prof. Chandra R. Murthy. My current research focus is on intelligent reflecting surfaces aided communication systems.

Yashvanth obtained his B.Tech (Honors) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, and a minor degree in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Trichy, India in 2020. He is a recipient of the President's Gold medal of the institute in 2020 for his best academic performance. He was also a recipient of the DAAD-WISE fellowship in 2019 and carried out the bachelors research internship at Germany during summer 2019. Currently, he is with the dept of ECE, at IISc Bangalore, India, where he is a Ph.D. research scholar. His broad areas of research interests lie in signal processing and applications in communication systems. He is a recipient of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships in 2021 and 2022, and the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship, Govt. of India in 2022. For more details about his research, please visit on the following links here: CV, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, and ORCID pages.

My Primary interests lie in Statistical Signal Processing and Wireless Communication systems. My current research focus is on intelligent reflecting surfaces aided communication systems. Some of the problems on which I am working currently and had worked in the past include:

1. Effect of IRS on Out of Band Performance in Wireless Communications
2. Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) Assisted Opportunistic Communications
3. Channel Estimation for IRS Assisted mmWave Massive MIMO Systems
4. Phase Optimization for IRS Assisted OFDM Systems
5. Self Interference Cancellation in Full Duplex Wireless Communications
6. Parameter Estimations in Bistatic MIMO Radar Systems using time-frequency analysis

[J1] L. Yashvanth, and Chandra R. Murthy, Performance Analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Opportunistic Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IEEE TSP), vol. 71, pp. 2056-2070, March, 2023. IEEEXplore ArXiv pdf

[J2] Yashvanth Lakshminarasimhan, Roshaan Soundarapandian, and Palanisamy Ponnusamy, On the Role of Time-Frequency Analysis for Joint DOD-DOA Estimation for Bistatic MIMO Radars, Progress In Electromagnetics Research C (PIER C), Vol. 114, 233-246, Aug 2021. Paper pdf

[C1] L. Yashvanth and Chandra R. Murthy, Does an IRS Degrade Out-of-Band Performance?,” Proc. IEEE 24th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (IEEE SPAWC 2023), Shanghai, China, 2023, pp. 216-220. IEEEXplore Poster

[C2] L. Yashvanth, and Chandra R. Murthy, Comparative Study of IRS Assisted Opportunistic Communications over I.I.D. and LoS Channels, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023, pp. 1-5. Video IEEEXplore Poster

[C3] L. Yashvanth, and Chandra R. Murthy, Cascaded Channel Estimation for Distributed IRS Aided mmWave Massive MIMO Systems, Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2022), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2022, pp. 717-723. Video IEEEXplore

[C4] L. Yashvanth, Chandra R. Murthy and Deepak Battu, Binary Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Assisted OFDM Systems, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (IEEE SPCOM 2022), July 2022, Bangalore, India. pp. 1-5. Video IEEEXplore

[C5] L. Yashvanth, Dharanya V., Gopi E.S., Novel Method of Self-interference Cancelation in Full-Duplex Radios for 5G Wireless Technology Using Neural Networks, Proceedings of MDCWC2020, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 749, Springer. Singapore. May 2021. Video Paper pdf

[A1] L. Yashvanth, & Chandra R. Murthy, On the Impact of an IRS on the Out-of-Band Performance in Sub-6 GHz & mmWave Frequencies, August 2023. Submitted to IEEE Journal for possible publication. ArXiv pdf

1. During Ph.D: Matrix Theory, Random Processes, Linear and Non linear Optimization, Digital Communications, Wireless Communications, Detection and Estimation Theory, Information Theory, MIMO Signal Processing, Compressed Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing
2. During B.Tech: Digital Signal Processing, Communication Theory, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, DSP for Wireless Communications, Optical Communications, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Networks and Protocols

1. [PMRF Duty - 2022] Visiting Faculty. Undergraduate level course on Mathematics for Machine Learning, August - December 2022 term, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru. (Total hours spent: 60 hrs., 4 hours/week). Letter
2. Teaching Assistant. PG level advanced certification course on 5G Technologies with AI and Cloud, Cohort - 01, October 2022 - June 2023, CCE - IISc Bangalore & Talentsprint, Online. Instructors: Prof. Chandra R. Murthy, Prof. K. V. S. Hari, Mr. Sudhakar B., Dept. of ECE, IISc Bangalore. Link to the course (Total hours spent: 150 hrs)
3. Teaching Assistant. E2 212: Matrix Theory, Dept. of ECE, Indian Institute of Science, August - December 2023 term. Instructor: Prof. Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri, Dept. of ECE, IISc Bangalore.
4. [PMRF Duty - 2023] Teaching Assistant. NPTEL course: NOC23-EE100 - Applied Linear Algebra for Signal Processing, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning, July - October 2023. Instructor: Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham, IIT Kanpur. Recorded sessions on YouTube. See here for session notes. (Total hours spent: 26 hours). Certificate
5. [PMRF Duty - 2023] Instructor. A First Course in Optimization, October - November 2023, Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS). (Total hours spent: 24 hours). Certificate
6. [PMRF Duty - 2024] Teaching Assistant. NPTEL course: NOC24-EE36 - Principles of Signals and Systems, Jan - April 2024. Instructor: Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham, IIT Kanpur. Recorded sessions on YouTube. See here for session notes. (Total hours spent: 26 hours). Certificate

IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSOC)

• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
• IEEE Communication Letters
• IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing
• Elsevier Signal Processing
• Elsevier Digital Signal Processing

• IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Trondheim, Norway, 2022
• IEEE National Conference on Communications (NCC), Guwahati, India, 2023
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, 2024
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, USA, 2024
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, Singapore, 2024

1. Office: SPW204, Signal Processing for Communication Lab, Signal Processing Building, West Wing, Dept. of ECE, IISc.
2. Office phone: +91-80-2293-2464 extn. 23.
3. E-Mail: yashvanthl@iisc.ac.in/ yashvanthly98@gmail.com