Pramod Viswanath's Home Page

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I am a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Coordinates:
118 Coordinated Sciences Laboratory
1308 West Main Street
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801.
phone: +1 217 244 8999
Fax: +1 217 244 1642
E-mail: pramodv at illinois dot edu
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Research

My area of research is Wireless Communication Networks. My main research interests are in understanding fundamental limitations to reliable wireless communication and to leverage this understanding into engineering solutions for wireless networks. An important component of my research is to take a system view of wireless communication by a joint consideration of networking and medium access issues with the underlying time-varying wireless channel.

More broadly, I am interested in understanding fundamental limitations to network information transmission and representation. Some of our recent research resolves decades-long open problems in optimal network information compression.

My publications provide a finer look at the nature of my research interests and the engineering scope of contributions.

Publications

A complete list of my archival papers is available here.

Talks

Some of my recent talks are here.

Teaching

For Fall 2001 and 2002, I taught ECE 361 Communications II.
For Spring 2003, I taught ECE 210 Introduction to Analog Signal Processing.
For Spring 2002, Fall 2003, 2005 and 2006, I taught a new course: ECE 559 Wireless Communications. .
For Spring 2004, 2005 and 2006, I taught ECE 459 Communications I.
For Fall 2004, I taught ECE 563 Information Theory.

Students and Postdocs

(Current) Quan Geng, Sreeram Kannan, Adnan Raja
(Alumni) Postdoctoral researchers: Vinod Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Aaron Wagner (Cornell)
PhD students: Aleksandar Jovicic (Qualcomm Technologies), Tie Liu (Texas A&M), Saurabha Tavildar (Qualcomm Technologies), Hua Wang (Qualcomm Technologies)
M.S. students: Sanket Dusad, Sahand Ahmad, Nilesh Khude, Rui Wu

Brief Biography

Pramod Viswanath received the PhD degree in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. He was a member of technical staff at Flarion Technologies until August 2001 before joining the ECE department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a recipient of the Xerox Award for Faculty Research from the College of Engineering at UIUC (2010), the Eliahu Jury Award from the EECS department of UC Berkeley (2000), the Bernard Friedman Award from the Mathematics department of UC Berkeley (2000), and the NSF CAREER Award (2003). He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for the period 2006-2008.