Rajesh Sundaresan
  Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
  Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems
  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.)
- Multiuser Diversity for Rotating Polarisation Systems (Hitachi)
- 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
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
Post-doctoral fellows
- Alexandre Reiffers-Masson
- S. Ramakrishnan
Project Staff
- Gaurav Bhandari
- Prakash Hiremath
- Bryan Robert
Biography
-
Qualcomm Inc.
Visiting Faculty, Summer of 2007
Senior Staff Engineer / Manager, 2005
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
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