RESEARCH STUDENTS
(a) Ph.D. Thesis Completed
1. A. A. Zain, "An Algebraic Approach to MDS and Dual Group Codes over Finite Abelian Groups",
(Ph.D.Thesis, E.E.Department, I.I.T.Delhi, 1996),
(Faculty, Eden University, Yemen).

2. J. Bali, "BCM using Two-Level Group Codes over Dihedral and Cicyclic Groups"
(Ph.D. Thesis, E.E.Department, I.I.T.Delhi, 1998),
(Member, Technical Staff, Lucent-Technologies, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey).

3. L. Venkata Subramaniam, "On Codes over Asymmetric PSK and Multidimensional Uniform Signal Sets",
(Ph.D. Thesis, Center for Applied Research in Electronics, I.I.T.Delhi, 1999). (Co-supervisor: Prof. R.Bahl).
(Member, Technical Staff, IBM India Research Centre, New Delhi).

4. Bikash Kumar Dey, "Codes Closed under arbitrary abelian group of permutations,"
(Ph.D. Thesis; Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, 2003.)
(Assistant Professor, EE Department, IIT Bombay.)
(Recipient of the Best Thesis Award (The Alumni Medal + Cash Prize) (2003-04))

5. Md. Zafar Ali Khan, "Single-symbol and Double-Symbol Decodable STBCs from Designs,"
(Ph.D. Thesis; Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, 2003.)
(Assistant Professor, EE Department, IIT Hyderabad.)
(Recipient of the INAE Young Engineer Award (2006))

6. V. Shashidhar, "High-Rate and Information-Lossless Space-Time Block Codes from Crossed-Product Algebras,"
(Ph.D. Thesis; Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, 2004.)
(Senior Design Engineer, Beceem Communications Inc., Bangalore.)
(Recipient of the INAE Young Engineer Award (2007))

7. G.Viswanath, "Elias Bound for Euclidean Space Codes and On Codes Close to the Generalized Singleton Bound,"
(Ph.D. Thesis: Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, 2004)
(System Architect, Samsung Software Operations, Bangalore.)

8. U.Sripati,"Space-Time Block Codes for MIMO Fading Channels from Codes over Finite Fields,"
(Ph.D. Thesis: Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, 2004)
(Faculty, National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, Karnataka.)

9. Kiran T., "Coding for Multi-Antenna Wireless Systems and Wireless Relay Networks ,"
(Ph.D. Thesis: Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, Nov., 2006)
(Broadcom India Private Ltd., Bangalore)
(Recipient of the Best Thesis Award (The Seshagiri Kaikini Medal + Cash Prize) (2007-08))

10. G. Susinder Rajan , " Low Decoding Complexity Space-Time Block Codes for Point to Point MIMO Systems and Relay Networks ,"
(Ph.D. Thesis: Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, November 2008.)
(Atheros Communications, Chennei, India)
(Recipient of the Best Thesis Award (The Seshagiri Kaikini Medal + Cash Prize) (2008-10))

11. Smarajit Das, "Low-PAPR, Low-delay, High-rate space-time block codes from orthogonal designs, "
(Ph.D. Thesis: Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, March 2009.)
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

12. J. Harshan , "Coding for Wireless Relay Networks and Multiple Access Channels,"
(Ph.D. Thesis: Electrical Communication Engg. Deptt., IISc, Bangalore, February, 2010.)
(Beceem Communications Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore)
(Recipient of the Best Thesis Award (The Seshagiri Kaikini Medal + Cash Prize) (2010-11))

Ph.D. Thesis (In Progress)

1. Pavan Srinath (Low Complexity Space-Time Codes)
2. Prasad Krishnan (Network Error Correcting Codes)
3. G. Jithamithra (Space-Time Coding)
4. Pranab Basu (Network Coding)
5. Srishti Shukla (Network Coding) (IMI candidate)
6. Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan (Algebraic Space-Time Coding)
7. G. D. Raghava
8. G. Abhinav (Recipient of IEEE WCNC 2011 Best Academic Paper Award)
9. Srikant B. Pai
10. T.M. Vijayvaradharaj


(b) M.Sc.(Engg) Thesis (Completed)
1. V. Shashidhar, Optimal 4-,8- and 16-State Across-the-Subchannels TCM for DMT Systems,
(Co-suprevisor: V.U.Reddy), Feb.2000.
2. Sheetal K. Mehta, On the dimension and exceptional subspaces of SSRS codes, Feb.2001.
3. T. Kiran, Codes over Galois Rings closed under certain monomials, Jan.2002.
4. Kaustuvmani Manji, Characterization of OFDM codes in Transform Domain, Jan.2003.
(Senior Research Engineer, CDOT, Bangalore.)
5. Anantha Narayan, Full-diversity Space-Time Trellis Codes for Arbitrary number of antennas and state complexity, Jan. 2004.
(Member, Technical Staff, Insilica Semiconductors India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. )
6. Naveen Despande, Constellation Constrained Capacity for Two-User Broadcast Channels, September 2009.
7. Hari Dilip Kumar, On the Fourier Transform Approach to Quantum Error Control, July 2010.

M.Sc.(Engg) Thesis (In progress)
1. Swaroop D.