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. More broadly, I am interested in understanding fundamental limitations to network information transmission and representation.

Our recent work has included reliable communication over combinatorial network models (polymatroidal graphs and submodular flows) that well motivate near optimal communication schemes in wireless networks.

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

I have taught ECE 361 (Fundamentals of Digital Communication) over the past several spring semesters (most recently in Spring 2012).
In the past I have also taught ECE 313 (probability and statistics for engineering students) and ECE 563 (information theory).
For Fall 2012 I am teaching ECE 559PV (Fundamentals of Wireless Communication).

Students and Postdocs

Current

Quan Geng, Peter Kairouz, Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan.

Former PhD students and Postdocs


Aleksandar Jovicic (Qualcomm Technologies),
Sreeram Kannan (postdoc at UC Berkeley),
Tie Liu (Associate Professor at Texas A&M),
Vinod Prabhakaran (Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research),
Adnan Raja (postdoc at Stanford University),
Saurabha Tavildar (Qualcomm Technologies),
Aaron Wagner (Associate Professor at Cornell University)
Hua Wang (Qualcomm Technologies)


Former 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.