Rajesh Sundaresan

Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems
Centre for Networked Intelligence
Analysis and Probability Research Group
Office of International Relations

Contact Information

Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
Telephone: +91 80 2293 2658 (Alternate - ECE office: +91 80 2293 2278; RBCCPS office: +91 80 2293 3430)
FAX: +91 80 2360 0563

Research Interests

Communication, computation, and control over networks, decentralised algorithms over graphs and networks, network analytics, information geometry.

Recent and Ongoing Projects

Industrial Internet of Things for Energy Efficiency (UAY)
EQWATER: Intelligent Water Supply Network Monitoring and Control for EQuitable Distribution of WATER within a Mega city (IMPRINT)
E-SENSE: Sensing and Analytics for Energy-Aware Smart Campus (Robert Bosch Engineering India Pvt. Ltd.)
MIELES: Modernizing and Enhancing Indian E-Learning Educational Strategies (EU)
Learning algorithms for search in structured environments (DST)
Metastability phenomena in algorithms and engineered systems (IFCAM)

Publications

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Videos/slides of some talks

Application of BP for optimization in structured spaces NASIT 2018 tutorial, 21 May 2018 (Video 203 min)
Updated slides from the same tutorial at U-Michigan Ann Arbor, June 2018. (Slides)
A closer look at the classical fixed-point analysis of WLANs 17 May 2017. (Slides)
The Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method (50 min), 07 July 2016, CSA Undergraduate Summer School, Indian Institute of Science. (YouTube)
Learning to detect an oddball target (37 min), 01 March 2016, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France. (YouTube)
Mean-field limits in communication networks, and a closer look at the fixed-point method: 27-30 July 2015. (Slides)
Net Neutrality: International and Indian Perspectives (93 min): 24 May 2015, WiOpt 2015 at IIT Bombay. (YouTube)
Belief propagation for large scale optimisations on graphs (45 min, second half of video): 18 April 2014, Big Data Initiative, IISc. (YouTube)
Mean field approximations, Part 1 (90 min): 13 January 2014, CEFIPRA/IFCAM workshops 2014. (MPEG4)
Mean field approximations, Part 2 (100 min): 13 January 2014, CEFIPRA/IFCAM workshops 2014. (MPEG4)
Some results and challenges in applying active sequential hypothesis testing to a visual search problem (45 min): 22 February 2013, Workshop on Cognition and Control, University of Florida at Gainesville. (YouTube)
A glimpse of information theory (15 min): 03 March 2012, IISc Open Day (MPEG4).

Courses

Machine Learning and Data Analytics (Centre for Continuing Education): Aug 2018 (jointly with P. S. Sastry and Shirish Shevade)
E0 259: Data Analytics : Aug 2015, Aug 2016, Aug 2017, Aug 2018, Aug 2019 (jointly with Ramesh Hariharan)
E1 396: Topics in Stochastic Approximation Algorithms : Aug 2018, Aug 2019
E1 244: Detection and Estimation Theory : Jan 2012, Jan 2014, Jan 2015
E1 254: Game Theory : Aug 2013
E2 201: Information Theory : Aug 2009, Aug 2010, Aug 2011
E2 203: Wireless Communication : Jan 2007, Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 (jointly with Neelesh B. Mehta)
E0 376: Information Theory and Statistical Inference : Jan 2009 (jointly with Ambedkar Dukkipati)
E2 207: Information and Coding Theory 2 : Jan 2007 (jointly with P. Vijay Kumar)
E2 211: Digital Communication : Aug 2005
E2 301: Topics in Multiuser Communication : Jan 2006, Aug 2007, Aug 2008, Jan 2017

Research Group

Students

Nihesh Rathod
Chetan Kumar Kuraganti
P. N. Karthik
A. Y. Sarath
Krishna Chaythanya K V
Vishal Kushwaha

Project Staff

Gaurav Bhandari

Alumni

Biography

Indian Institute of Science
Professor

Toulouse Mathematics Institute , Universite Paul Sabatier
Visiting Faculty, October 2015.

Coordinated Science Laboratory , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Scholar, August 2012 - July 2013.

Qualcomm Inc.
Visiting Faculty, Summer of 2007
Senior Staff Engineer / Manager, 2005

Princeton University
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1999
M.A., Electrical Engineering, 1996

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B.Tech., EC, 1994