- Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, August 2019.
- Runner-up best paper award at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), June 2018, IISc Bangalore, India.
- Best paper award at the 23rd National Conference on Communications (NCC), March 2017, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
- Recipient of Dr. Jaykrishna Medal for outstanding M.Tech Graduate, IIT Roorkee, September 2013.
- Recipient of Deutsche Akademischer Austauch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship, 2012, to pursue Master's Thesis at Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham since September 2022.
- Post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Engineering, King's College London, working with Prof. Osvaldo Simeone from October 2019 to September 2022.
Education
- Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, August 2018, under the guidance of Prof. Ankur A. Kulkarni.
- Master's degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 2013. Completed Master's thesis at Fachgebiet Regelungssysteme group of TU Berlin, guided by Prof. Joerg Raisch.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Kerala, India, 2007.
Background
Research interests include quantum (and classical) machine learning, information theory, statistical learning theory, optimization, and game theory.
Miscellany
Currently hiring fully funded Ph.D. scholarships for UK home students (citizens or with settled status in the UK) to work on exciting projects in Quantum Machine Learning.