Network Seminar Series

An overview of entropy-regularized optimal transport and Schrödinger bridges

Prof. Soumik Pal, University of Washington, Seattle

Consensus in the weighted voter model with noise-free and noisy observations

Prof. Ayalvadi Ganesh, University of Bristol

Dynamic networks and stochastic approximation: the fundamental role of mathematics

Prof. Shankar Bhamidi, University of North Carolina

Efficient Repair of Reed-Solomon Codes and Tamo-Barg Codes

Prof. Lalitha Vadlamani, IIIT Hyderabad

Interventional Causal Representation Learning

Prof. Ali Tajer, RPI, Troy, NY, USA

Design and Analysis of Low Complexity Techniques for IRS-Aided Wireless Communications

Yashvanth L, PhD Student, ECE Department, IISc Bangalore

Need for Speed: Minimizing the impact of Bufferbloat

Prof. Mohit P. Tahiliani, Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal

Differentially Private Release of Spatio-Temporal Data Statistics

Dr. V. Arvind Rameshwar, Research Fellow, Indian Urban Data Exchange

Understanding Performance of Internet Video using Network Measurement Data

Efficiently Serving Large Language Models

Dr. Ashish Panwar, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India

Load Balancing under Data Locality: Extending Mean-Field Framework to Constrained Large-Scale Systems.

EdgeRIC: Empowering AI-based Real Time Intelligent Control, Optimization and Security in NextG Networks

Prof. Dinesh Bharadia, Associate Professor, ECE Department, University of California San Diego

Risk-Sensitive Bandits: Arm Mixtures Optimality and Regret-Efficient Algorithms

Dr. Arpan Mukherjee, Postdoctoral researcher, Imperial College London

Flipped Huber: A new additive noise mechanism for differential privacy

Locality Sensitive Hashing in Fourier Frequency Domain for Soft Set Containment Search

Abir De, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

Schema Generation for Querying a Data Lakehouse

Low Complexity Optimal Policies for Networked Control Systems

Sample-Efficient Constrained Reinforcement Learning with General Parameterized Policies

Dr. Washim Uddin Mondal, Asst. Professor, IIT Kanpur

Markov Chain Variance Estimation: A Stochastic Approximation Approach

Dr. Shubhada Agrawal, Postdoctoral researcher, CMU

Codes for (Un)Expected Loads

Prof. Emina Soljanin, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University.

Random Separating Hyperplane Theorem and Learning Polytopes

Prof. Amit Kumar, Faculty Member, IIT Delhi.

Online Learning for Hierarchical Inference

Prof. Sharayu Moharir, Assosiate Professor, EE Dept., IIT Bombay.

Leveraging WiFi for Robust and Resource-Efficient SLAM

Dr. Aditya Arun, Wireless systems engineer, Skydio

Learning in the Presence of Strategy

Prof. Ganesh Ghalme, IIT Hyderabad

A Designing Robust Algorithms for Data Streams that Might be Adversarially Generated

Prof. Amit Chakrabarti, Dartmouth College, USA.

Average Reward Markov Decision Process

Vaneet Aggarwal, Purdue University.

Binomial Line Cox Processes – Modeling Streets Across a City

Gourab Ghatak, Faculty at the EE Dept., IIT Delhi.

Discrimination, A One bit Sampling Perspective

Sibi Raj Pillai, Faculty at the EE Dept., IIT Bombay.

Towards Optimizing Storage Costs on the Cloud

Koyel Mukherjee, Senior Research Scientist in Adobe Research, Bangalore

Guaranteed performance analysis of networks with bandwidth-sharing schedulers

Need for Sovereign Compute

Prof. Manu Awasthi, Computer Science at Ashoka University

The Capacity of Causal Adversarial Channels

Prof. Sidharth Jaggi, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Adaptive Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms for Markovian and i.i.d Rewards

Prof. Arghyadip Roy, Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Guwahati

Towards an Open Mobile Networking Ecosystem

Prof. Mahesh K. Marina, School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh

Tight Bounds for General Computation in Noisy Broadcast Networks

Quickest Fault Detection over Lossy Networks for Industrial Machinery

Large-Scale Study of User Behaviour, Expectations and Engagement with Android Permissions

Sai Teja Peddinti , Staff Research Scientist in the Privacy Research group at Google

Streaming Codes for Three-Node Relay Networks With Burst Erasures

Prof. Nikhil Krishnan, Assistant Professor, IIT Palakkad

Between Promise and Reality: Navigating the Landscape of Indic Language LLMs Amidst Hyperbole and Hope

Provably Robust DPO: Aligning Language Models with Noisy Feedback

Sayak Ray Chowdhury, postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, India

A decentralised algorithm for minimizing multi-agent congestion cost on a network

Prof. Nandyala Hemachandra, IIT Bombay

Online Age-of-Information Scheduling

Kumar Saurav, PhD student at TIFR Mumbai

Power Allocation for Generalized Gaussian MAC

Prof. Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan, IIT Madras

Min LQG games and collective discrete choice problems

Prof. Roland Malhamé, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Learning while bidding in Vickrey Auctions with acquisition rate and targeting constraints

Ravi Mazumdar, Professor, University of Waterloo

Trade-offs between Security and Privacy in Linear Dynamical Systems

Prof. Vaibhav Katewa, IISc

Cracking Software Engineering interview for fresh grads

Ashish Sharma, IISc

TTL Model for an LRU-Based Similarity Caching Policy

Dr. Sara Alouf, INRIA

PhD Research: Elements of Excellence

Prof. Ness B. Shroff, Ohio State University