Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Post-Doctoral Associate
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Cornell University

Visiting Post-Doc
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
 University of California, Berkeley
264 Cory Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94707

Email: pv45 AT cornell DOT edu
Brief Biography

I am a visiting Post-Doc at the University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Venkat Anantharam. I received my B.Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2002, and my M.S and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering in 2005 and 2007 respectively from Cornell University under the advice of Prof. Lang Tong.

My post-doctoral research has primarily focused on the information-theoretic approach to anonymity in wireless communication, ad-hoc networking and more recently, peer-review. This research is supported by a National Science Foundation grant. My doctoral research was in the area of wireless sensor networks, specifically on distributed multiple access communication and statistical inference in large networks. Two publications that resulted from my doctoral research received the 2005 Leonard G. Abraham Prize and a 2006 IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award.

Curriculum Vitae: html, pdf

Selected Publications (Full list can be found here.)

Journal and Preprints
  • "Anonymous Networking amidst Eavesdroppers" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He and L. Tong
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Security, Vol. 54, No 6, pp. 2770-2784, June 2008.

  • "Towards an Analytical Approach to Anonymous Wireless Networking" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He, L. Tong and S. Wicker
    IEEE Communications Magazine: Special Issue on Security in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Vol. 46, No 2, pp. 140-146, Feb. 2008.

  • "Quantization for Maximin ARE in Distributed Estimation" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong and A. Swami
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, Issue 7, pp. 3596-3605, July 2007.

  • "Sensor Networks with Mobile Access Points: Optimal Random Access and Coding" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, S. Adireddy and L. Tong
    IEEE Journal for Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 22, Issue 6, pp. 1058-1068, Aug. 2004.


 Conference Proceedings
  • "Anonymity under Light Traffic using a Network of Mixes" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and V. Anantharam
    47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2008.

  • "Incentivizing Anonymous 'Peer-to-Peer' Reviews" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and A. Sahai
    47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2008.

  • "On the Anonymity of Chaum Mixes" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and V. Anantharam
    2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

  • "Anonymous Networking with Minimum Latency in Multihop Networks" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and L. Tong
    2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2008.

  • "Minimax Quantization for Distributed Maximum Likelihood Estimation" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong and A. Swami
    2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

  • "Score-Function Quantization for Distributed Estimation" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong and A. Swami
    40th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.


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