ABOUT ME
I'm a fifth year PhD student working under Dr. Edward Knightly at Rice University. My research interests are in the areas of mobile and wireless networks with a focus on protocol design and performance evaluation coupled with at-scale field trials.
Currently I'm working on Multi-user MIMO. My expertise in MU-MIMO includes knowledge of 802.11 standards (including but not limited to 802.11ac/ax), MAC protocol design and analysis, implementation of relevant modules for ns3 and hands on experience on software defined radio platforms such as WARP. I also have a good understanding of cross-layer protocol design (PHY/MAC/IP layers), PHY techniques (including but not limited to OFDM, OFDMA, MIMO, CDMA, full duplex and interference calcellation) and TCP/IP.
During my undergrad, I have had a truly unique privilege of working on state-of-the-art research projects in a wide variety of areas including antenna design, signal processing and underwater acoustic communications.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Rice University (2014 - present)
Research Assistant at Rice Networks Group
Research focus: Multi-antenna systems, traffic dynamics, MAC protocol design, performance evaluation
2014 - present
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Rice University)
Area of study: Wireless Networks
Advisor: Dr. Edward Knightly
Facebook (Sept 16 - Dec 16)
Intern
Focus: Data analysis, system architecture design and
evaluation, Massive MIMO
2010 - 2014
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (IIT Patna)
2014 - 2016
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Rice University)
Core: Systems Breadth: Computer Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Edward Knightly
Indian Institute of Technology Patna (2013 - 2014)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research focus: RF systems, antenna theory, microstrip patch antenna
Apple Inc. (May 18 - Aug 18)
Intern
Research focus: Hardware design, PHY testing and analysis tool design