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Abhishek K Gupta
PhD (University of Texas, Austin)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Research Interest
Wireless communications,
5G/6G Technologies including mmWave, THz, RIS, vehicular communication,
Quantum communications, Molecular Communications
Stochastic geometry, Probability theory
Office
Office: ACES 305C,
Department of Electrical Engineering (ACES building).
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur- 208016
UP.India
Research Area
Mobile/Wireless, Computer Networks
Research Areas for Specialization in Signal Processing, Communications and Networks
Specialization
Wireless communications, 5G/6G Technologies including mmWave, THz, RIS, vehicular, and molecular communication, Quantum communications, Stochastic geometry.
Education
Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016
B.Tech. - M.Tech. dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010
Previous Work Experience
Sn Standards Engineer, Samsung Research America Richardson, Dallas
Research fellow, Nokia Networks
Selected Publications
2025 Exploring Mitochondrial Dynamics And Localization Under Cellular Stress: A Comprehensive Insight
S Agarwal, Karuppusamy K, Abhishek K. Gupta, Journal of Biosciences, 50, 23, 2025, 10.1007/s12038-025-00514-6
2024 On the Target Detection Performance of a Molecular Communication Network with Multiple Mobile Nanomachines
Nithin Sabu and A K Gupta, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, 23(3), pp. 524-536, July 2024, 10.1109/TNB.2024.3399188
2024 On the Coverage of Cognitive mmWave Networks with Directional Sensing and Communications,
Shuchi Tripathi, Abhishek K. Gupta, S. Amuru, IEEE Transactions of Wireless Communications, 23(10), pp 14215-231, June 2024, 10.1109/TWC.2024.3410382
2023 Fundamentals of Vehicular Communication Networks with Vehicle Platoons
K Pandey, K R Perumalla, Abhishek K. Gupta, H. S. Dhillon, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 8634-8649, Dec. 2023
2023 Book: An Introduction to on Cellular Network Analysis Using Stochastic Geometry,
Jeffrey Andrews, Abhishek Gupta, Ahmad Alammouri, Harpreet Dhillon, Publisher: Morgan ClayPool, US, 2023
Short preprint available at arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03183
2021 Book Chapter: Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Spectrum for 6G Wireless
Shuchi Tripathi, Nithin V S , Abhishek. K. Gupta and Harpreet S Dhillon
Book: 6G Mobile Wireless Networks, (Publisher: Springer). 2021
preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10267
2016 Modeling and Analyzing Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems
Jeffrey G. Andrews, Tianyang Bai, Mandar N. Kulkarni, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Abhishek K. Gupta, Robert W. Heath Jr, submitted to IEEE Trans. Commun., arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04283
2016 Gains of Restricted Secondary Licensing in Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems
Abhishek. K. Gupta, Ahmed. Alkhateeb, Jeffrey G. Andrews, and Robert W. Heath Jr, submitted to IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00205
2016 On the Feasibility of Sharing Spectrum Licenses in mmWave Cellular Systems
Abhishek K. Gupta, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Robert W. Heath, Jr., to appear in IEEE Trans. Commun., arXiv preprint arXiv::1512.01290
2015 Are We Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Wireless Network Densification?
Jeffrey G. Andrews, Xinchen Zhang, Gregory D. Durgin, Abhishek K. Gupta, arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00413
2015 SINR and Throughput Scaling in Ultradense Urban Cellular Networks
Abhishek K. Gupta, Xinchen Zhang, Jeffrey Andrews, IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 605-608, Dec. 2015
Awards & Fellowships
2023 Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Wireless Communications
2021-22 IEI Young Engineer Award, Institute of Engineers (India),
General Electric (GE)-FS Leadership Award by General Electric Foundation and Institute of International Education in 2009
IITK Academic Excellence Award for four consecutive years (2006-2009).
Research Group
Modern Wireless Networks Group
Website: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~gkrabhi/group/
Professional Experience
Sr. Standards Engineer, Samsung Research America, Dallas
Applied Microelectronics Circuit Corporation, Pune, FutureWei Technologies, Inc., NJ, USA, and Nokia Networks, IL, USA.
Ongoing Project
Intelligent Spectrum Innovation, UK ESPRC (Joint Indo-UK project) 
Performance of THz networks in presence of scatterers and blockages, Qualcomm 6G University Research Award
Administrative Responsibilities at IIT Kanpur
Department Post Graduate Committee (DPGC) Convener, Electrical Engineering
PhD Supervision
Nithin Sabu
Area: Molecular Communications. Thesis title: Modeling and analysis of diffusion-limited molecular communication systems with multiple transmitters and absorbing receivers Awarded PhD Outstanding Thesis Award in IITK convocation 2023
Kaushlendra Pandey
Area: Vehicular Communications Title: Design and analysis of vehicular networks with platooning