Electrical Engineering

Andrew Thangaraj

PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2003.

B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998

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andrew@ee.iitm.ac.in

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Andrew Thangaraj received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2003. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the GTL-CNRS Telecom lab at Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France from August 2003 to May 2004. From June 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, where he is currently a professor. From Jan 2012 to Jan 2018, he served as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
From July 2018 to July 2022, he served as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Since Oct 2011, he has been serving as NPTEL coordinator at IIT Madras. He has played a key role in initiating and running NPTEL online courses and certification. He is currently a National MOOCs Coordinator for NPTEL in the SWAYAM project of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Since May 2020, he has been serving as Coordinator for the BS (Data Science) Program at IIT Madras. Since Oct 2022, he has been serving as Associate Chair for the Centre for Outreach and Digital Education (CODE) at IIT Madras.

Andrew Thangaraj's research interests are in the broad areas of information theory, error-control coding and information-theoretic aspects of cryptography.

Previous Courses

EE5120: Applied Linear Algebra Jul-Nov '21, '20, '19.
EE634/EE5143: Information Theory Jan-May '05, '09, '10, Jul-Nov '12, Jan-May '23.
EE5142: Introduction to Information Theory and Coding Jul-Nov '18, '16, '15.
EE5162: Topics in Information Theory Jan-May '18.
EE512, EE5160: Error Control Coding Jan-May '21, '08, '07, '06, Jul-Nov '04,'11.
EE5161: Modern Coding Theory Jan-May '16, '12, Jul-Nov '14, '13.
EE6143: Advanced Topics in Communications Jan-May '22, '17, '15.
EE515: Math Methods in Signal Processing Jul-Nov '07.
EE511: Communication Theory Jul-Nov '05, '06.
EE3110: Probability Foundations for EE Jul-Nov '22.
EE419/EE4140: Digital Communications Jul-Nov '17, 09, '08.
EC3201: Communication Systems Jan-May '14, '13.
EE356: Analog Communication Systems Jan-May '10, '11.
EE471: Advanced Communications Lab Jul-Nov '08, '09.

Aravind, V.R., Sarvepalli, P.K., Thangaraj, A., "Lifting Constructions of PDAs for Coded Caching With Linear Subpacketization," (2022) IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70 (12), pp. 7817-7829.
Thangaraj, A., Kramer, G., Böcherer, G. "Capacity bounds for discrete-time, amplitude-constrained, additive white Gaussian noise channels," (2017) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 63 (7), art. no. 7894270, pp. 4172-4182.
Kashyap, N., Thangaraj, A. "The treewidth of MDS and reed-muller codes," (2012) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 58 (7), art. no. 6174471, pp. 4837-4847.
Thangaraj, A., Dihidar, S., Calderbank, A.R., McLaughlin, S.W., Merolla, J.-M. "Applications of LDPC codes to the wiretap channel," (2007) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 53 (8), pp. 2933-2945.

Patents

Advanced forward error correction, Granted Patent, United States Patent 6842873, Filed in 2005.