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			Biosketch
			
			Work Experience- Research Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne (2022-2024)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, affiliated colleges of APJ Abdul Kalam University (2008-2011, 2016-2022)
- Program Analyst, Infosys Technologies Limited (2002-2006)
 
 Industry Internships- 
	Research Intern, Advanced Technology Group, NetApp, Bangalore (2013, 2015) 
 
 Education- PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2011-2016)
 Thesis: High-rate MSR codes, interior-point regenerating codes, and codes with hierarchical locality
 Advisor: P. Vijay Kumar
 
- M. Sc. (Eng.), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2006-2008)
 Thesis: Diversity-multiplexing gain tradeoff of cooperative multi-hop networks
 Advisor: P. Vijay Kumar
 
- B. Tech., College of Engineering Trivandrum (1998-2002)
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 
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			Research
			Current research interests- Coding for blockchain
- Coding for distributed learning
- Signal design for short-packet communication
- Quantum error correction
 
 Continued research interests- Coding theory and its applications
- Codes for distributed storage
 
 PublicationsPlease visit my Google scholar profile 
 Work adopted in practiceClay codes in Ceph distributed storage system. 
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			Teaching
			Jan 2025- EE5007 Linear algebra for engineers
 

 
	