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
Ph.D. Students
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
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
Email: abhisharma@iisc.ac.in
Ankita Nandi (Co-advised by Prof. Chetan Singh Thakur)
Ankita received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Meghalaya, in 2018. She did her M.Tech. from IIT Gandhinagar, in 2020.
Research Interests: Analog, Digital and Mixed-Signal VLSI design, Error Correction Coding, Approximate Computing.
Email: ankitanandi@iisc.ac.in
Amrutha Machireddy
Amrutha received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore in 2015.
Research Interests: Mathematical Biology, Non-linear signal processing and optimization, Neural networks.
Email: amrutha@iisc.ac.in
Arijit Mondal
Arijit received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication from NIT Durgapur in 2011 and M.E. degree in Microelectronic systems from IISc Bangalore in June 2014.
Research Interests: VLSI architectures for signal processing, Coding theory.
Email: arijit@iisc.ac.in
Master’s Students
Anil Y
Anil received his B.Tech. degree in ECE from NITK, Surathkal in 2019. He worked at Samsung Semiconductor India R&D, Bangalore between June 2019 and August 2020 in the SoC Design Verification team.
Email: anily@iisc.ac.in
Divita Shri
Divita received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata in 2020.
Email: divitashri@iisc.ac.in
Kamal Bhatt
Kamal received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National institute of technology Uttarakhand in 2018.
Email: kamalbhatt@iisc.ac.in
Sharath Lohith Tirumala
Sharath received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2019.
Email: sharathl@iisc.ac.in
Jitta Nischala
Nischala received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Warangal in 2019.
Email: jittan@iisc.ac.in
Bachelor’s Students
Samarth Kashyap
Samarth is currently a bachelor student at IISc and he has been a KVPY fellow since 2018.
Email: samarthk@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 – PhD
Dr. Priya J. Nadkarni
Priya graduated with a Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in February 2021.
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.
Thesis: Protocols for quantum information processing on graph states.
Email: ankur@iisc.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.
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’
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.
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
Praveen Jayakumar
Praveen graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Research) degree in June 2021.
Thesis: Design of quantum reed muller codes with applications towards multiparty entanglement distribution and error correction.
Email: jpraveen@iisc.ac.in
Former Industrial Research Collaborator
Sudarshan Onkar
Sudarshan had joined PNSIL as a resident scholar to collaborate on advanced research topics.
He is currently working in Analog Devices as a staff engineer.
Research interests: System Modelling, Sensor signal processing, Digital VLSI Design
Email: sudarshan.onkar@gmail.com
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
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.
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
Praveen Nandakumar
Praveen Nandakumar was working as a research assistant from October 2012 to May 2015. He is currently working as software engineer at Cisco.
Email: praveen.nandakumar7@gmail.com
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)