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Speakers

Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham

Arun Kumar Chair Professor
EE Department
IIT Kanpur
Qualcomm Innovation Fellow (2018-2019, 2022-2023)
PK Kelkar Fellow (2012-2015, 2015-2018)

Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Kanpur, where he holds the Arun Kumar Chair Professorship. He received his Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. From April '07 to May '09 he was employed as a senior wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego, California, where he was a part of the Qualcomm CDMA technologies (QCT) division. His research interests are in the area of next generation wireless networks and machine learning, with a special emphasis on signal processing, AI/ ML applications in various 5G/ 6G technologies.

His research articles have been published extensively in leading international IEEE journals and conferences. He has successfully conducted several Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and cutting-edge Schools on various topics such as MIMO OFDM Wireless Systems, Probability and Random Processes, Signals and Systems, Principles of Communication Systems, Optimization, Machine Learning, which have been widely attended and appreciated. He has been recognized with several awards described below.

List of Awards of Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham

  • CAL(IT)2 fellowship at the University of California San Diego
  • Upendra Patel Achievement Award at Qualcomm
  • P.K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship-I (2012-2015)
  • P.K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship-I (2015-2018)
  • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF)-2018
  • Arun Kumar Chair (2019-2022, 2022-Present)
  • IITK Excellence in Teaching Award (2019)
  • IITK Distinguished Teacher Award (2024)

Prof. Suraj Srivastava

Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Ex Qualcomm, Samsung, Broadcom

Prof. Suraj Srivastava received the M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2022. He was previously employed as a Staff-I systems design engineer with Broadcom Research India, and as a lead engineer with Samsung Research India. He also worked as a senior lead engineer in Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore . His research interests include applications of Sparse Signal Processing in 5G Wireless Systems, mmWave and Tera-Hertz Communication, Optimization and Machine Learning. He was awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships (QIF) in years 2018 and 2022. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. More information about him can be found at https://sites.google.com/iitj.ac.in/profsurajsrivastava/home


Distinguished Guest Speakers

Aditya Kanade

Senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research India

Aditya Kanade is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research India. He is interested in all aspects of building trustworthy, scalable and intelligent systems. His current focus is to build language models and AI agents to transform how we build and use software. Before joining Microsoft Research, he was a full professor at the Indian Institute of Science (2009-2022). He also spent two years as a staff visiting researcher at Google Brain (2018-2020). He did postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania and PhD at IIT Bombay. His work has received ACM best paper and test-of-time awards.
More information about him can be found here Aditya Kanade



Dr. Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

Quantum Innovation Center Lead, IBM Quantum

Dr. Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy is the Quantum Innovation Center Lead for India at IBM Quantum, where he manages quantum research and business partnerships in the region. His research in quantum computing, cryptography and blockchain has resulted in about 20 peer-reviewed publications and 14 patents with around 1100 citations now.
He has received a best paper finalist award at ACM CCS, IBM internal awards like Outstanding Technical Accomplishments, Technical Collaboration Achievement and One IBM I/SA Growth Award respectively for his research, significant contributions to open-source and India market growth respectively. He has also served as the Technical Assistant to the Director of the IBM India lab and CTO, IBM ISA. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Quantum Information) from the University of Waterloo, a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy.
More information can be found here Dr. Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy