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Affiliation

Graduate Student

Communications Group

Coordinated Science Laboratory

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisors:

Venugopal. Veeravalli

Angelia Nedich

Address: 108 C.S.L.,

               1308, West Main St.,
Urbana, IL, 61801,
                U.S.A

Mail Id: sram.srin[AT]gmail.com

Biography

I received my B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering, both in 2006, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. I am currently a graduate at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I was a student-researcher at the Mathematics Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in the summer of 2005 and a summer intern at ITC (Indian arm of British American Tobacco) in the summer of 2004. I was a teaching assistant, at I.I.T. Bombay, for a course on statistical signal analysis in Fall 2005 and a course on communication networks in Spring 2006. I have also been awarded the Vodafone fellowship for the year 2007-2008.

My research interests are broadly in the areas of optimization and data regression in the context of distributed networks. Please see my publications for specific interests.

I have graduated! Here is a link to my thesis. My new email id is sram.srin@gmail.com.

A recording of my talk at CSL SC. This covers some of my research.

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Publications (copyright policy)

Book chapters

BC1. S. Sundhar Ram, V. V. Veeravalli and A. Nedic, “Distributed and Recursive Estimation”, Sensor Networks: When Theory meets Practice, Springer

Journals

J5. S. Sundhar Ram, A Nedic and V. V. Veeravalli, "Distributed Stochastic Subgradient Algorithm for Convex Optimization", to appear in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

J.4. S. Sundhar Ram, A. Nedic and V. V. Veeravalli, "Incremental Stochastic Subgradient Algorithm for Convex Optimization", SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol 20, No 2, pp. 691-717, 2009

J.3. S. Sundhar Ram, V. V. Veeravalli and A. Nedic, “Distributed and Recursive Parameter Estimation in Parametrized Linear State-Space Models”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

J.2.  Pallavi Manohar, S. Sundhar Ram and D. Manjunath, "Path Coverage by a Sensor Field : The Non Homogeneous Case", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol 5, No. 2, March 2009.

J.1. Sundhar Ram, Srikanth.K.Iyer, D.Manjunath and D.Yogeshwaran, “On the Path Coverage Properties of Random Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol 6, No. 5, May 2007.

Selected Conferences

C.4. S. Sundhar Ram, A Nedic and V. V. Veeravalli, “Asynchronous Gossip Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2009

C3. S. Sundhar Ram, V. V. Veeravalli and A. Nedic, “Distributed Non-Autonomous Power Control through Distributed Convex Optimization”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2009

C.2. S. Sundhar Ram and V.V.Veeravalli, "Localization and Intensity Tracking of a Diffusing Point Source using Sensor Networks", In. Proc.  IEEE Globecom, Nov 2007.

C.1. S. Sundhar Ram and D. Manjunath, “Parametric Estimation of a Boolean Random Field”, In Proc. IEEE ICASSP, April 2007.

Thesis

1. S. Sundhar Ram, "Coverage and Data Fusion Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks", Masters Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, July 2006.

Non-technical

N.1. A cricketing renaissance: The effect of T20 on the game of cricket, ESPN’s Cricinfo.

N.2. Better than Duckworth-Lewis:  An improvement to the Duckworth-Lewis rain rule, ESPN’s Cricinfo.

N.3. Smart dust networks that perform complex tasks : Popular science article on smart dust networks, Hindu ---Indian National daily since 1878

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• Last updated on 05/15/2009