Director, PNSI Lab
Prof. Shayan Srinivasa Garani
Prof. Shayan Srinivasa Garani received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, M.S. from the University of Florida – Gainesville and B.E. from Mysore University. Prof. Srinivasa has held senior engineering positions within Broadcom Corporation, ST Microelectronics and Western Digital. Prior to joining IISc, Prof. Srinivasa was leading various research activities, managing and directing research and external university research programs within Western Digital. He was the chairman for signal processing for the IDEMA-ASTC and a co-chair for the overall technological committee. He is the author of a book, several journal and conference publications, holds U.S patents in the area of data storage. Prof. Srinivasa is a senior member of the IEEE, OSA, the past chairman (2018 – 2020) for the IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee and the past chairman (2015 – 2018) for the Photonic Detection group within the Optical Society of America. He was awarded Prof. Satish Dhawan young engineers state award in the field of engineering sciences for the year 2018. His research interests include broad areas of applied mathematics, physical modeling, coding, signal processing and VLSI systems architecture for novel magnetic/optical recording channels, quantum information processing, neural nets and math modeling of complex systems.
CURRENT TEAM
GROUP PHOTOS
Post Doc. Fellows
Dr. Pavan Kumar
Dr. Pavan Kumar obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics and M.Sc. (Maths) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India in the years 2012 and 2014, respectively. He has also been conferred the degree of Ph.D. in Mathematics on the topic “Study of Some Classical and Quantum Error-Correcting Codes” for the year 2021 by Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Kumar worked as an Assistant Professor, from Sep-2022 to Jan-2023, in the Department of Mathematics, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He worked in the School of Mathematics and Statistics as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (PDRF) sponsored by the Institute of Eminence-University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana from Aug-2023 to Sep-2023. He joined the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India as a Research Associate-I on September 12, 2023.
Research Interests: Classical and quantum error-correcting codes, Classical-quantum cryptography and algorithms.
Dr. Ashutosh Singh
Dr. Ashutosh Singh completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna in May 2025. He obtained his B.Sc. in PMCA from SHUATS, Prayagraj, in 2016 and his M.Sc. in Mathematics from SLIET, Punjab, in 2019. Dr. Singh worked as an Assistant Professor at the School of Sciences, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India, from July 2024 to January 2025. He joined the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, as a Research Associate-II on May 13, 2025.
Research Interests: Algebraic Coding Theory, Quantum Error-correcting Codes.
Personal website: Link
Ph.D. Students
Suresh Kumar V obtained his B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering degree from UVCE Bengaluru in 2008. He is sponsored student from U R Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO.
Research Interests: Error-Control Coding Theory and Practice, Communication Systems, Software Defined Radios and Systems Engineering.
Email: sureshkumarv@iisc.ac.in
Shubham received his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli. He completed his Master of Technology (Research) in Aerospace Engineering at IISc, Bangalore. He is a sponsored student affiliated with both IISc and Samsung Semiconductor India Research.
Research Interests: Quantum Computing for Artificial Intelligence
Email: shubhampatil@iisc.ac.in
Karthik Bharadwaj G M
Karthik received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in 2022. He completed his B.E. from BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore (an affiliated Institution under VTU) and secured 2ndrank in the University in the ECE stream.
Research Interests: Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Error Correction Codes
Linkedin: Link
Email: karthikbgm@iisc.ac.in
Mrinmoy Karmakar
Mrinmoy Karmakar received his Bachelor of Science (Research) and Master of Science in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2023. He has been a KVPY fellow since 2018.
Research Interests: Quantum Error Correction Codes, Quantum Information Theory
Email: kmrinmoy@iisc.ac.in
Arun M
Arun completed his BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He completed his Master of Engineering in Signal Processing at IISc Bangalore. He later had brief research stints at Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, and Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON). He is also a part of the first initiative of India’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using the Giant Meterwave Radio.
Research Interests: Quantum Physics and Communication networks
Email: marun@iisc.ac.in
Sudhir Kumar Sahoo
Sudhir received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute Of Technology (IGIT), Sarang in 2016. He received his M.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2020. He has a worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in IIT Bhubaneswar (2020-2021).
Research Interests: Quantum information theory
Email: sudhirsahoo@iisc.ac.in
Linkedin: Link
Abhi Kumar Sharma
Abhi received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from GLA University Mathura in 2021. He worked at VVDN Technologies for 3 months.
Research Interests: Quantum Information and Communication
Linkedin: Link
Email: abhisharma@iisc.ac.in
Master’s Students
Prajjwal Saxena
Prajjwal is currently pursuing his M.Tech in Quantum Technology at IISc with a focus on quantum algorithms, error correction, and scientific computing. He holds an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Delhi and a B.Sc. in Physics (Hons) from Aligarh Muslim University. Prior to joining IISc, he completed a Post M.Sc. Diploma in Radiological Physics at BARC, where he trained in radiation safety and dosimetry.
Research Interests: Quantum linear system solvers, block encoding of sparse matrices, and their generalization to qudits.
LinkedIn: Link
GitHub: Link
Email: prajjwals@iisc.ac.in | prajjwalsaxena18@gmail.com
Bachelor’s Students
Sankalp Patel
Sankalp received Bachelor of Science (Research) degree in June 2023 and has been a KVPY fellow since 2019.
Thesis: Quantum Machine Learning
Email: sankalppatel@iisc.ac.in
Research Assistants
Rashmi Prakash
Rashmi received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PES University Bangalore in 2017. She is currently working as a research assistant in PNSIL.
Email: rashmip@iisc.ac.in
Alumni Post-doc
Dr. Shikha Patel
Dr Shikha Patel completed her Ph.D from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna in June 2023. She completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Allahabad in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She is interested in linear error-correcting (skew cyclic, skew constacyclic, skew polycyclic) codes over finite commutative and non-commutative rings, quantum codes from classical codes, codes over mixed alphabets, etc. She joined the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, as an IoE-Postdoctoral Fellow on September 01, 2023. Soon after her tenure at IISc, she joined the ETIS Lab, CNRS, Paris, France, as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bhopal.
Dr. Vidya Sagar
Dr. Vidya Sagar completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in November 2023. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from St. Xavier’s College Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, in 2016 and his M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, in 2018. He joined the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, as an IoE-Postdoctoral Fellow on December 28, 2023.
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China.
Personal Website: Link
Alumni (Doctorates)
Dr. Amrutha Machireddy
Amrutha graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in March 2022.
First job after graduation: Research Scientist at Intel Labs.
Thesis: Learning Non-linear Mappings from Data with Applications to Priority-based Clustering, Prediction, and Detection.
Email: amrutha@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Dr. Arijit Mondal
Arijit graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in March 2022. He also got his M.E. degree in Microelectronic systems from IISc Bangalore in June 2014.
First job after graduation: Post-doc with Prof. Keshab Parhi’s group (UMN).
He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Kharagpur in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering.
Thesis: Efficient Hardware Architectures for Error Correcting Codes Applicable to Data Storage.
Email: arijit@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Dr. Priya J. Nadkarni
Priya graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in February 2021. She was awarded with the Tag Corporation Medal for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation.
First job after graduation: Quantum error correction researcher at Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Canada.
Thesis: Entanglement-assisted Additive Qudit Stabilizer Codes
Email: priya@alum.iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Dr. Shounak Roy
Shounak graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in December 2019.
First job after graduation: Member of technical staff at NetApp.
Thesis: Two Dimensional Algebraic Linear Error Correcting Codes
Email: shounak@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Dr. Ankur Raina
Ankur graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in November 2019.
First job after graduation: Postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Arizona. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at IISER Bhopal Link.
Weblink: Link
Thesis: Protocols for quantum information processing on graph states.
Email: ankur@iiserb.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Dr. Prayag Gowgi
Prayag graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in January 2019.
First Job after graduation: Senior research engineer at Ericsson.
Thesis: Spatio-temporal memories: Theory and Algorithms.
Email: prayag@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Dr. Chaitanya Kumar Matcha
Chaitanya graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in July 2018. He was awarded with the Tag Corporation Medal for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation.
First job after graduation: Staff engineer at Qualcomm.
Thesis: Signal Processing and Coding for Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording
Email: chaitanya@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Alumni – Masters’
Kartik Sharma
Kartik graduated with an M.S.(Research) degree in Physics in June 2024 from IISc and he has been a KVPY fellow since 2019. He is currently pursuing PhD in EE at UCLA.
Thesis: Quantum-Enhanced Viterbi Decoding.
Email: kartiksharma@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Mihir Jain
Mihir graduated with an M.S.(Research) degree in Physics in June 2023 from IISc and he has been a KVPY fellow since 2018.
Research Interests: Quantum Computing and Machine Learning.
Final Thesis Title– Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks
Email: mihirjain@iisc.ac.in
Samarth Kashyap
Samarth graduated with an M.S. (Research) degree from Physics, IISc Bangalore in June 2023. and he has been a KVPY fellow since 2018.
Research Interests: Quantum Computing and Machine Learning
Final Thesis Title: Quantum Convolutional Neural Network Architecture.
Email: samarthk@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Anil Y
Anil graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2022.
First job after graduation: Senior SoC Verification Engineer at Intel Labs.
Email: anily@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Divita Shri
Divita graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2022.
First job after graduation: Digital Design Engineer at Texas Instruments.
Email: divitashri@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Kamal Bhatt
Kamal graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2022.
First job after graduation: Verification Engineer at Texas Instruments.
Email: kamalbhatt@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Sharath Lohith Tirumala
Sharath graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2022.
First job after graduation: Senior Hardware engineer at Samsung Semiconductors (SSIR).
Email: sharathl@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Jitta Nischala
Jitta graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2022.
First job after graduation: SOC Design Engineer at Intel.
Email: jittan@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Jitendra Kumar
Jitendra graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2021.
Thesis: Hardware architecture for the implementation of Gaussian elimination.
Email: jitendrakuma@iisc.ac.in
Srilakshmi
Srilakshmi is a sponsored student from DRDO. She graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in July 2020.
Thesis: Hardware implementation of EZW encoder and decoder for imaging applications.
Email: srilakshmia@iisc.ac.in
Nimisha Chinnu Jose
Nimisha graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2019.
First job after graduation: Hardware engineer at NVIDIA.
Thesis: An optimized BCH decoder design architecture for adaptive M-ary recording channels.
Email: nimishajose@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Arvindhan G
Arvindhan graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2019.
First job after graduation: Hardware engineer at NVIDIA.
Thesis: An optimized BCH decoder design architecture for adaptive M-ary recording channels.
Email: arvindhang@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Sebin Jose
Sebin graduated with an M.E. degree in Microelectronics from IISc Bangalore in June 2017.
First job after graduation: ASIC engineer at Juniper Networks.
Thesis: Asynchronous implementations of soft output viterbi detector.
Email: sebinjt@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Anil George
Anil is an ISRO sponsored student. He graduated with an M.E. degree in Microelectronics from IISc Bangalore in June 2017 .
Thesis: Algorithms and design architecture for timing recovery in data storage channels.
Email: anilgeorge1986@gmail.com
Arnab Dey
Arnab graduated with an M.E. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2016.
First job after graduation: SoC Design Engineer at Intel.
Thesis: Asynchronous circuits for hard-decision and soft-decision viterbi detectors.
Email: arnabdey3990@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Maanu Palthiya
Maanu has graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2016.
First job after graduation: Junior Executive in Airport Authority of India (AAI).
Thesis: Base sadja, Melakarta raga identification, modeling and synthesis of Carnatic music gamakas.
Email: maanup12@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Suresh Alasatri
Suresh has graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2016. After graduation, joined as a Ph. D. student at City Univ. of Hong Kong.
Thesis: Base sadja, Melakarta raga identification, modeling and synthesis of Carnatic music gamakas.
Email: sureshalasatri@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Vamshi Krishna Yalamaddi
Vamshi has graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2016.
First job after graduation: Digital design engineer in NVIDIA technologies.
Thesis: Design architecture and implementation of high throughput and low latency RS decoder.
Email: vamshikrishna.yalamaddi@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Satyannarayana T. S. V
Satyannarayana has graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2016.
First job after graduation: MTS circuit design engineer in Rambus.
Thesis: Design architecture and implementation of high throughput and low latency RS decoder.
Email: tsv.satya93@gmail.com
Nithin Raveendran
Nithin graduated with an M.Sc. Engg. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in Jan. 2016. After graduation, Nithin joined as research scholar at the University of Arizona.
Thesis: A Modified Sum-Product Algorithm Over Graphs With Short Cycles.
Email: nithin@email.arizona.edu
Contact: LinkedIn
Saugata Datta
Saugata graduated with an M.E. degree in Microelectronics at IISc Bangalore in June 2015. He was awarded with the Institute gold medal for his outstanding performance in Masters.
First job after graduation: Analog design engineer at Texas instruments.
Thesis: Theory and design architecture of a low latency one and two dimensional soft output Viterbi detector for a seperable channel.
Email: saugata700@yahoo.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Brijesh P. Reddy
Brijesh graduated with an M.Tech. degree from DESE, IISc Bangalore in June 2014.
First job after graduation: Design Engineer at AMD in London, UK.
Thesis: Two-dimensional Timing Recovery using Phase-Locked Loops.
Email: brijeshpreddy@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Alumni – Bachelor’s
Aranya Chakraborty
Aranya graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Research) degree in June 2023 and has been a KVPY fellow since 2019.
Thesis: Quantum analogue of the classical Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for rank reduction of quantum operators.
Email: aranyac@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Kartik Sharma
Kartik graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Research) degree in June 2023 and has been a KVPY fellow since 2019.
Thesis: Quantum-Enhanced Viterbi Decoding.
Email: kartiksharma@iisc.ac.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Praveen Jayakumar
Praveen graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Research) degree in June 2021. After graduation, He joined as a Ph.D. student at the Univ. of Toronto in the Dept. of Chemistry, working in Quantum Information Sciences.
Thesis: Design of quantum reed muller codes with applications towards multiparty entanglement distribution and error correction.
Email: jpraveen@iisc.ac.in
Former Industrial Research Collaborators
Sudarshan Onkar
Sudarshan was a resident scholar to collaborate on advanced research topics.
He is currently working in NXP Semiconductors as a Design engineer.
Research interests: System Modelling, Sensor signal processing, Digital VLSI Design
Email: sudarshan.onkar@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Former Research Assistants
Harshitha Srinivas
Harshitha was working as a research assistant from August 2015 to August 2018.
Arathy B. Nair
Arathy was working as a research assistant from July 2017 to March 2018.
Email: arathybnair90@gmail.com
Tarun Khandelwal
Tarun Khandelwal was working as a J.R.F from June 2015 to July 2017. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D in data analytics for transportation at Robert Bosch Centre, IISc.
Email: tarunrkhandelwal@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Kaumudibikash Goswami
Kaumudi was working as a research assistant from October 2016 to April 2017. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D in quantum optics at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Email: : kaumudibikash@dese.iisc.ernet.in
Contact: LinkedIn
Varuni P.Rao
Varuni was working as a research assistant from February 2016 to August 2016.
Email: carnatic.varunirao@gmail.com
Eeshan Modak
Eeshan Modak was working as a research assistant from June 2014 to April 2016.
Email: :eeshan.bappi@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Praveen Nandakumar
Praveen Nandakumar was working as a research assistant from October 2012 to May 2015. He is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Dell EMC.
Email: : praveen.nandakumar7@gmail.com
Contact: LinkedIn
Interns
- Akash Bhakat (2021)
- Nipun Mahajan (2021)
- Maanav Seth (2021)
- Kushagra Bansal (2021)
- Arpit Behera (2020)
- Shikhar Singh (2019)
- Yaswant Rachumallu (2019)
- Kanan Gupta (2018)
- Sanghamitra Hota (2017)
- Bryan Robert (2017)
- Aditya Ramesh (2017)
- Aswathy Ashok (2016)
- Shreya Behera (2015)
- Neeraja Abhyankar (2015)
- Mounika Manukonda (2013)
- Gauri Jagatap (2013)