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Alumni
Graduates of the NeWS Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Nine PhD students and thirty M.Tech students have completed their degrees under my supervision. Positions listed are the most recent ones I am aware of; if yours has changed, write to me and I will update it. Current students are on the homepage.
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PhD alumni
Nine graduates, 2016 to 2024.
| Name | Period | Thesis | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Vanlin Sathya | 2011–2016 | On improving data rates of users in LTE HetNets | Director of Research and Solutions Innovation, Celona. Inc, USA |
| Dr. Anil Kumar Rangisetti | 2012–2017 | Software-defined approaches for management of mobility, load and energy in wireless networks | Faculty, IIITDM Kurnool |
| Dr. Mukesh Kumar Giluka | 2011–2018 | MAC layer enhancements to support IoT traffic in wireless networks | Faculty, JNU New Delhi |
| Dr. Thomas Valerrian Pasca | 2013–2019 | Traffic steering in radio-level integration of LTE and Wi-Fi networks | Research Engineer, Qualcomm, USA |
| Dr. Anand M. Baswade | 2014–2019 | Coexistence schemes in LTE-U/Wi-Fi for efficient use of unlicensed spectrum | Faculty, IIT Bhilai |
| Dr. Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli | 2017–2022 | Towards Ensuring Performance Isolation in NFV-based Systems | Faculty, NIT Warangal |
| Dr. Veerendra Kumar Gautam | 2018–2024 | Efficient Task Offloading in 5G NR V2X: A Case Study of High Definition (HD) Map | Post-doc, University of Padova, Italy |
| Dr. Maruthi Seshidhar Inukonda | 2018–2024 | Privacy-Preserving Forensics Enabled Networked Computing Environment at Scale | Scientific Officer, Centre for Cryptography and Cybersecurity at IIT Hyderabad |
| Dr. Suresh Kumar Amalapuram | 2019–2024 | Continual Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems: Addressing Concept Drift in Network Traffic | Faculty, IIT Ropar |
M.Tech alumni
Thirty graduates, 2013 to 2025, listed by year of completion.
| Name | Graduated | Thesis topic |
|---|---|---|
| Aiswarya P | 2013 | Signalling congestion control for M2M communications in 4G LTE networks |
| Niranjan Rathod | 2013 | Efficient handover scheme for LTE networks |
| Naveen Kamath | 2014 | IP flow mobility based offload in LTE–Wi-Fi interworking |
| Nitish Rajoria | 2014 | Lightweight signalling for small M2M data transmissions in LTE/LTE-A |
| Ramaraju C | 2015 | Cloud radio access network for LTE |
| Srikant Manas Kala | 2015 | Interference mitigation in wireless mesh networks |
| Hatim Lokhandwala | 2016 | Mobile social networking in proximity |
| Prashant Sharma | 2016 | Flow mobility in converged wireless networks and IoT |
| Deepa Martolia | 2016 | Muting of base stations in LTE HetNets |
| Charania Navroz Firoz | 2017 | Addressing and routing for green IoT |
| Amogh P C | 2017 | Cloud-native solutions for orchestration in LTE |
| Debashisha Mishra | 2017 | Dynamic resource management of cloud-native control units in 5G RANs |
| Sumanta Patro | 2017 | Modelling and analysis of tightly coupled LTE–Wi-Fi networks |
| Vamshi Kiran B. T. | 2019 | Orchestration and network slicing in 5G |
| Tarun Patidar | 2019 | Video delivery over tightly coupled LTE–Wi-Fi networks |
| Madhura Adeppady | 2020 | DNS/IPv6 for IoT security |
| Madhukar Mishra | 2020 | Anomaly detection in wireless networks |
| Anshika Chourasia | 2021 | Vehicular communication networks |
| Ujjwal Pawar | 2021 | Energy efficiency in Cloud RAN |
| Srinivas N | 2021 | Network security |
| Aditya Kumar Singh | 2022 | Energy efficiency in Cloud RAN |
| Keval Malde | 2022 | Energy efficiency in Cloud RAN |
| Arun Kant Dubey | 2023 | Vehicular communication networks |
| Anwesha Kar | 2024 | Vehicular communication networks |
| Suranjan Daw | 2024 | Vehicular communication networks |
| Priyanka Nagireddy | 2025 | Vehicular communication networks |
| Priyanka Narang | 2025 | Security of HPC systems |
| Patel Heetkumar Dilipbhai | 2025 | Federated learning for malware detection |
| Pramod Hembrom | 2025 | 5G security |
| Ashutosh Rajput | 2025 | 5G security |
| Saumay Lunawat | 2026 | 5G security |
| Mohit Patil | 2026 | Network security |
| Somya Jain | 2025 | Open RAN |
Funding sources for these theses included MoE and MHRD assistantships and the CPS, CCRAN, M2Smart, NASSCOM and Intel sponsored projects.