Rajesh Sundaresan

Contact Information

Research Interests

• Decision theory, communication, computation, and control over networks, cyber-social systems, and, more recently, data-driven decision frameworks for public health responses.
  

Recent and Ongoing Projects

• COVID-19 response (City-scale simulator, workplace readiness, transmit modelling, serosurveys, Swabs2Labs, serosurvey designs, Campus Rakshak, City-scale simulator UI) (Centre for Networked Intelligence -- Cisco CSR, Hitachi, Google, NHM, DST)
• Industrial Internet of Things for Energy Efficiency (UAY and TCS)
• EQWATER: Intelligent Water Supply Network Monitoring and Control for EQuitable Distribution of WATER within a Mega city (IMPRINT)
• Information Design for Socio-Technical Systems (DST)
• Metastability phenomena in algorithms and engineered systems (IFCAM)
• Unlocking data for people-centric transportation (Hitachi)

Software

• Optimal design of serosurveys for disease burden estimation: COVID-19 response
• Study of cohorting strategies in the Mumbai locals: COVID-19 response
• City-scale epidemic simulator (github link): COVID-19 response
• City-scale epidemic (toy) simulator interface: COVID-19 response
• Workplace readiness calculator: COVID-19 response
• WaterOpt: A software framework for optimisation of water distribution in a city (write to me for input files)
• Bheemboy: A webapp for managing course registrations

Publications

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Videos/slides of some talks

• Optimal design of serosurveys for disease-burden estimation (55 min), Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology talk, 25 February 2020.
• Cohorting strategies for targeted isolation of asymptomatic spreaders of COVID-19 (1.5 min)
• Karnataka's COVID-19 serosurvey Part 1 Summary, methods, results (Siva Athreya) Part 2 Optimal design (Rajesh Sundaresan)
• Agent-based simulators for the study of COVID-19 spread (95 min), ICTS Colloquium, 09 June 2020.
• A city-scale epidemic simulator and its use in unlocking the lockdown (72 min), IISER Mohali Webinar, 19 May 2020.
• COVID-19 Epidemic: Unlocking the lockdown -- Agent-based simulation platform for intervention studies (25 min), ISRC Online Symposium on Covid-19, 09 May 2020.
• The four levels of the fixed-point analysis (65 mins), Seminar at the Centre for Networked Intelligence, 12 March 2020. (YouTube)
• Learning to detect an odd Markov arm (33 min), BITS Seminar, TIFR Mumbai, 06 January 2020.
• Reputation based information design for inducing pro-social behaviour (60 min), Summer Research Programme on Dynamics of Complex Systems, ICTS, 26 June 2019.
• The M.Tech. (AI) programme at IISc (8 min), EECS Symposium, 13 March 2019.
• 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, Aug 2021 (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
  

Alumni

Biography

• Indian Institute of Science
  Professor

• Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru Centre
  Visiting Faculty, February - July 2021.

• Strand Life Sciences
  Visiting Faculty, August 2020 - January 2021.

• 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
  

Technical Meetings

• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2019)
  
• 17th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2019
  
• ACM Mobihoc 2019
  
• International conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2018)
  
• 2018 International Symposium on Cyber-Physical Systems, 11-13 July 2018
  
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2018)
  
• 16th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2018
  
• National Conference on Communications (NCC 2018)
  
• 10th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2018)
  
• Workshop on Research to Impact, 13-14 November 2017
  
• 2017 International Symposium on Cyber-Physical Systems, 19-21 July 2017
  
• 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2017
  
• National Conference on Communications (NCC 2017)
  
• International conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2016)
  
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2016)
  
• 14th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2016
  
• JTG/IEEE Information Theory Society Summer School and Workshop, June 2016
  
• Workshop on Game Theory and Mechanism Design, January 2016
  
• Advanced Training in Mathematics Workshop on Applied Probability, January 2016
  
• JTG/IEEE Information Theory Society Summer School and Workshop, July 2015
  
• 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2015
  
• IISc/Microsoft Research Summer School on Wireless Networking 2014
  
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2014)
  
• 12th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2014
  
• Workshops on New Avenues for Network Models and Social Networks, January 2014
  
• National Conference on Communications (NCC 2014)
  
• Joint Telematics Group Summer School 2013
  
• 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2013
  
• Thematic programme on Probability: theory and applications
  
• International conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2012)
  
• National Conference on Communications (NCC 2012)
  
• Joint Telematics Group Summer School 2012
  
• 10th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2012
  
• 9th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2011
  
• Thematic programme on Mathematics of Networks
  
• Joint Telematics Group Summer School 2011
  
• National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011)
  
• ICM Satellite Meeting on Probability and Stochastics 2010
  
• Joint Telematics Group Summer School 2010
  
• International conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2010)
  
• Lectures on Probability and Stochastics IV
  
• Joint Telematics Group Summer School 2009
  
• Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development (WISARD 2009)
  
• Managing Complexity in a Distributed World (MCDES 2008)
  
• Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development (WISARD 2008)
  
• Workshop on Cognitive Radio 2007
  

Other items and information

• The M.Tech. (Online) programme
  
• The M.Tech. (AI) programme
  
• Young Researchers Meetings and useful information for prospective faculty
  
• Information for prospective faculty at ECE
  
• An older information site for new faculty