Abhishek Sinha Resume

Contact Dept. of Electrical Engg., IIT Madras abhishek.sinha@ee.iitm.ac.in

Address Office: ESB-212A, abhishek.sinha.iisc@gmail.com
Chennai, TN 600036,
India https://home.iitm.ac.in/abhishek.sinha/

Title Assistant Professor Nov 2018 - Present

Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Madras

Education
• Doctor of Philosophy
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), September 2012 - June 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Prof. Eytan Modiano
Committee: Eytan Modiano, Leandros Tassiulas, David Gamarnik
Cumulative GPA : 5.0 out of 5.0

• Master Of Telecommunication Engineering

Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE),
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India August 2010 - August 2012
Advisor: Prof. Anurag Kumar
Cumulative GPA : 7.6 out of 8.0

• Bachelor Of Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering

Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETCE),
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India August 2006 - July 2010
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Swagatam Das
Cumulative GPA : 9.36 out of 10.0

Work
Experience • Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Senior Engineer, Wireless R&D

• Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ June 2016 - August 2016

Summer Intern,
Fixed Networks and Mathematics of Networks

• Microsoft, Redmond, WA June 2014 - August 2014

Summer Intern,
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research

Research
Interests • Networking and Communication: Queueing Theory, Network Control, Information Theory,
Wireless Communication.
• Learning, Optimization, and Decision Theory: Convex Optimization, Markov Decision
Processes, Applied Probability.
Publications

Journal Pre-prints/ Under Review

1. J. Zhang, A. Sinha, J. Llorca, A. Tulino, E. Modiano, “Optimal Control of Distributed
Computing Networks with Mixed-Cast Traffic Flows”, Under review in IEEE
Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

Journal Papers
1. A. Sinha, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Networks with
Point-to-Multipoint Transmissions”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
September 2019.
2. I. Kadota, A. Sinha, E. Modiano, “Scheduling Algorithms for Optimizing Age of
Information in Wireless Networks with Throughput Constraints”, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, May 2019.
3. I. Kadota, A. Sinha, E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, R. Singh, E. Modinao, “Scheduling Policies for
Minimizing Age of Information in Broadcast Wireless Networks”, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, September 2018.
4. A. Sinha, L. Tassiulas, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Net-
works with Dynamic Topology”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

5. A. Sinha, E. Modiano, “Optimal Control for Generalized Network Flow Prob-

lems”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, pp 1-14, issue 99, Dec 2017.

6. A. Sinha, G. Paschos, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Multi-hop Broadcast Al-

gorithms”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25.5 (2017): 3088-3101.

7. A. Sinha, P. Mani, J. Liu, A. Flavel, D. Maltz, “Distributed Load Management Algo-

rithms in Anycast-based CDNs”, Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2017.

8. A. Sinha, G. Paschos, C.P. Li, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Multihop Broad-

cast on Directed Acyclic Wireless Networks”, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, no. 99, pp. 1-15, 2017.

9. A. Chattopadhyay, A. Sinha, M. Coupechoux, A. Kumar, “Deploy-As-You-Go Wireless

Relay Placement: An Optimal Sequential Decision Approach using the Multi-
Relay Channel Model”, IEEE Transactions On Mobile Computing, 2017.

10. A. Sinha, A. Chattopadhyay, K.P. Naveen, P. Mondal, M. Coupechoux, A. Kumar, “Opti-

mal sequential wireless relay placement on a random lattice path”, Ad Hoc
Networks, Elsevier, vol. 21, pp. 1-17, 2014.

11. A. Sinha, S. Das, B.K. Panigrahi, “A Linear State-Space Analysis of the Migration
Model in an Island Biogeography System”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man
and Cybernetics Part-A, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 331-337, 2011.

Refereed Conference Papers

1. A. Srivastava, A. Sinha, K. Jagannathan, On Minimizing the Maximum Age-of-Information
For Wireless Erasure Channels, Proceedings of RAWNET 2019, Avignon, France.

2. A. Sinha, M. Andrews, P. Ananth, Scheduling Algorithms for 5G Networks with

Mid-haul Capacity Constraints, Proceedings of WiOpt 2019, Avignon, France.

3. A. Sinha, E. Modiano, Network Utility Maximization with Heterogeneous Traffic

Flows, Proceedings of WiOpt 2018, Shanghai, China.
 4. I. Kadota, A. Sinha, E. Modiano, “Optimizing Age of Information in Wireless Net-
works with Throughput Constraints”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Hon-
olulu, HI, USA (Best Paper Award).

5. J. Zhang, A. Sinha, J. Llorca, A. Tulino, E. Modiano, “Optimal Control of Distributed

Computing Networks with Mixed-Cast Traffic Flows”, Proceedings of IEEE INFO-
COM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.

6. A. Sinha, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Networks with

Point-to-Multipoint Transmissions”, Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Sympo-
sium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, (MobiHoc) 2017, Chennai, India.

7. A. Sinha, E. Modiano, “Optimal Control for Generalized Network-Flow Prob-

lems”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA.

8. A. Sinha, L. Tassiulas, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Broadcast in Wireless Net-

works with Dynamic Topology”, Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium
on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, (MobiHoc) 2016, Paderborn, Germany (Best
Paper Award).

9. A. Sinha, G. Paschos, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Multi-hop Broadcast Algo-

rithms”, Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
and Computing, (MobiHoc) 2016, Paderborn, Germany.

10. A. Sinha, G. Paschos, C.P. Li, E. Modiano, “Throughput-Optimal Broadcast on Di-

rected Acyclic Graphs”, IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, PRC.

11. A. Sinha, P. Mani, J. Liu, A. Flavel, D. Maltz, “Distributed Load Management in

Anycast-based CDNs”, 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and
Computing (Allerton) 2015, Monticello, IL, USA.

12. A. Chattopadhyay, A. Sinha, M. Coupechoux, A. Kumar, “Optimal Capacity Relay Node

Placement in a Multi-hop Network on a Line”, 10th International Symposium on Mod-
eling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks,WiOpt 2012, Paderborn,
Germany.

Patents/IDFs
• “Physical Uplink Control Channel Reliability Enhancements”, A. Sinha et al., US
Patent application.
• “Uplink Control Channel Beam Switch Procedure”, A. Sinha et al., US Patent applica-
tion.
• “TCI Indication Procedure for UL Control”, Qualcomm IDF #182761IDF, March 2018.
Inventors: M.P.J. Wilson, S. Akkarakaran, T. Luo, Y. Zhou, X.F. Wang, W. Nam, A. Sinha.
• “PUCCH Reliability Enhancements”, Qualcomm IDF #182660IDF, March 2018. Inven-
tors: X.F. Wang, T. Luo, S. Akkarakaran, M.P.J. Wilson, Y. Zhou, W. Nam, A. Sinha, J.
Montojo.
• “Integrated Scheduler for Scheduling with X-Haul Capacity Constraints.”, M. An-
drews, P. Ananth, A. Sinha, Invention submission # 81991 at Nokia Bell Labs. US Patent
application serial no: 15/630,367.

Awards and
Honors • Recipient of a gift of 35K USD from Qualcomm, San Diego, in July 2019.
• Recipient of the Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.
• Recipient of the Best Paper Award in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium
on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM MobiHoc 2016, Paderborn, Germany.
• Recipient of Prof. Jnansaran Chatterjee Memorial Gold Medal and T.P. Saha Memorial Gold
Centered Silver Medal from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in the year 2010.
 • Recipient of Senior Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS) scholarship, 2007
(awarded to approximately 20 students annually among all branches of science and engineering
in the state of West Bengal, India).

Major Academic
Achievements • Secured All India Rank 2 (out of approximately 1,00,000 students) in the Graduate Aptitude
Test in Engineering (GATE) 2010, in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
• Ranked 2nd in the department (ETCE) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (in 2010).
• Secured All India Rank 16 in West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE 2006) in
the Engineering entrance test (out of approximately 80,000 students).
• Was offered ECE Distinguished Research Fellowship from UIUC.

Teaching
• Fall 2019, IIT Madras: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (EE 6180)
• Spring 2019, IIT Madras: Topics in Random Processes and Concentrations (EE 6112)

Academic Visits
• Yale Institute of Network Science Summer 2015
– Worked with Prof. Leandros Tassiulas on Throughput-Optimal Broadcasting in time-varying
networks.

Invited Talks ISI Kolkata (July 2019), JTG Summer School, IIT Madras (June 2019), Huawei Mathematical and
Algorithmic Research Lab, Paris (June 2019), IISc Bangalore (Jan 2018, Jan 2016), IIT Bombay (Jan
2018), IIT Kanpur (Jan 2018), IIT Kharagpur (Jan 2018), IIT Madras (Nov 2017), IIT Delhi (Nov
2017), Renaissance Technologies (Rentec, May 2017), Qualcomm Research (March 2017), UC San
Diego (Feb 2017), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Jan, 2017), Nokia Bell Labs (June 2016),
Yale Institute of Network Science (June 2015).

Professional/
Voluntary • Served as an anonymous reviewer for journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions
Services on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. on Mobile
Computing, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Performance Evaluation,
IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems.
• Served on the executive board of Sangam (the Indian student association at MIT) as the
webmaster during the academic year 2015-2016.
• Interested in recreational mathematics. Regular problem setter and problem solver in Brilliant
(https://brilliant.org/).