Rajesh Sundaresan
Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Centre for Networked Intelligence
Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Sciences
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF)
Contact Information
Electrical Communication Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru 560012, India
Telephone (ECE office): +91 80 2293 2278
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
- While-light Imaging and Oral Cancer Screening (Ministry of Education, Biocon Foundation, Kotak-IISc AI ML Centre, Centre for Networked Intelligence)
- Infectious disease modelling and environmental surveillance - FMD (PSA's office, in collaboration with Artpark)
- COVID-19 response (omicron projections, incovid19.org, forecast hub, early warning system, vaccination optimisation, serosurveys, serosurvey designs, campus rakshak, campus rakshak UI, city-scale simulator, city-scale simulator UI, workplace readiness, transport modelling, Swabs2Labs)
(Centre for Networked Intelligence -- Cisco CSR, Hitachi, Google, NHM, DST, IoE-IISc and NSF)
- 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
- Forecast hub: COVID-19 response (IISc IoE, NSF)
- Campus Rakshak Simulator App (User Interface) (github link): COVID-19 response (DST and iHUB-DRISHTI)
- Campus Rakshak Simulator (github link): COVID-19 response (DST and iHUB-DRISHTI)
- City-scale epidemic simulator user interface (github link): COVID-19 response (Hitachi)
- City-scale epidemic simulator (github link): COVID-19 response (Cisco-IISc CNI)
- Vaccine allocation optimisation (github link) COVID-19 response (Google, SERB-MATRICS, NIH, NSF)
- Optimal design of serosurveys for disease burden estimation: COVID-19 response (Cisco-IISc CNI, Google, Hitachi, MATRICS, Wellcome DBT Trust, Strand)
- Design of serosurveys with multiple test kits: COVID-19 response (Cisco-IISc CNI, Google, Hitachi, MATRICS, Wellcome DBT Trust, Strand)
- Study of cohorting strategies in the Mumbai locals: COVID-19 response (Cisco-IISc CNI, Google, NIH, NSF)
- City-scale epidemic (toy) simulator interface: COVID-19 response (Cisco-IISc CNI, SAP)
- Workplace readiness calculator: COVID-19 response (Cisco-IISc CNI, KSDMA)
- WaterOpt: A software framework for optimisation of water distribution in a city (write to me for input files) (IMPRINT)
- Bheemboy: A webapp for managing course registrations
Publications
Videos/slides of some talks
- Mean-field interacting particle systems: Limit laws and large deviations, Sigmetrics/Performance 2022 Tutorial.
- Data-driven decision frameworks for COVID-19 response - A personal journey (68 min), COMSNETS 2022 Keynote talk.
- Statistical principles in the design of serosurveys (44 min), IASc Annual Meeting 2021.
- 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
- E2 202: Random Processes: Aug 2023, Aug 2024, Aug 2025 (jointly with Anurag Kumar)
- E2 201: Information Theory : Aug 2009, Aug 2010, Aug 2011, Jan 2025, Jan 2026
- BE 218: Computational Epidemiology : Jan 2022, Jan 2023 (jointly with Vijay Chandru), Jan 2024
- E0 259: Data Analytics : Aug 2015, Aug 2016, Aug 2017, Aug 2018, Aug 2019, Aug 2021, Summer 2022, (jointly with Ramesh Hariharan), Aug 2022, Summer 2023, Aug 2023, Aug 2024, Jan 2026 (jointly with Ramesh Hariharan and Vikram Srinivasan)
- E1 396: Topics in Stochastic Approximation Algorithms : Aug 2018, Aug 2019
- Machine Learning and Data Analytics (Centre for Continuing Education): Aug 2018 (jointly with P. S. Sastry and Shirish Shevade)
- E1 244: Detection and Estimation Theory : Jan 2012, Jan 2014, Jan 2015
- E1 254: Game Theory : Aug 2013
- 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
- Janaky Murthy (PhD candidate)
- Tejashree S (PhD candidate)
- Shedsale Aakash Sunil (PhD candidate)
- Tarun Kumar Sahu (PhD candidate)
- Akhil Krishna R (PhD candidate)
- Lakshmi Hansda (PhD candidate)
- S. Sowmya (PhD candidate)
- Sreeshma Shiv UK (PhD candidate)
- T R Sudharsan (MTech (AI) candidate)
Staff
- Varsha Jaisimha
- Rakshi Sharma
- Bithika Chatterjee
Biography
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Qualcomm Inc.
Visiting Faculty, Summer of 2007
Senior Staff Engineer / Manager, 2005
Technical Meetings
- Travel Grants Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2024.
- Steering Committee, Asian Engineering Deans Summit, Bengaluru, 2024.
- General Co-Chair, 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems \& NETworkS (COMSNETS 2024), Bengaluru, 2024
- Steering Committee, Asian Engineering Deans Summit, Hong Kong, 2023.
- TPC Member, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2021
- TPC Member, 12th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2021
- TPC Member, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2020
- TPC Member, 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2020
- 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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