Ravi Tandon
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- (520) 621-2434
- Electrical & Computer Engr, Rm. 359
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- tandonr@arizona.edu
Biography
Ravi Tandon is the Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of ECE at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the University of Arizona in Fall 2015, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech with positions in the Bradley Department of ECE, Hume Center for National Security and Technology and at the Discovery Analytics Center in the Department of Computer Science.
He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he was a post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University.
He is a recipient of the 2018 Keysight Early Career Professor Award, NSF CAREER Award in 2017, and a Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2011. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. His current research interests include information theory and its applications to wireless networks, communications, security and privacy, machine learning and data mining.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States
- Capacity Bounds for Multi-User Channels with Feedback, Relaying and Cooperation
- B.S. Electrical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2020 - Ongoing)
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2015 - 2020)
- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia (2012 - 2015)
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (2010 - 2012)
Awards
- Keysight Early Career Professor Award
- Fall 2018
- Keysight Technologies, Spring 2018
- IEEE Senior Member
- IEEE, Fall 2017
- NSF CAREER Award
- National Science Foundation, Spring 2017
- Best Paper Award IEEE GLOBECOM Conference
- IEEE, Fall 2011
Interests
Research
Information and Coding Theory,Security and Privacy in Machine Learning,Communication Efficient Distributed Machine Learning,Wireless Communications and Signal processing,Private Information Retrieval
Teaching
Information theory, wireless communications, signal processing, wireless security (cybersecurity), digital communications, estimation and detection theory
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Dissertation
APPL 920 (Fall 2024) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2024) -
Probablty+Rndm Prcs Engr
ECE 503 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
MATH 920 (Spring 2024) -
Information Theory
ECE 636 (Spring 2024) -
Information Theory
MATH 636 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2023) -
Dissertation
MATH 920 (Fall 2023) -
Independent Study
ECE 599 (Fall 2023) -
Probablty+Rndm Prcs Engr
ECE 503 (Fall 2023) -
Research
ECE 900 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Adv Tpc:Electrical Engr
ECE 696B (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
MATH 920 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2022) -
Dissertation
MATH 920 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2022) -
Independent Study
ECE 699 (Spring 2022) -
Information Theory
ECE 636 (Spring 2022) -
Information Theory
MATH 636 (Spring 2022) -
Research
MATH 900 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2021) -
Independent Study
ECE 699 (Fall 2021) -
Probablty+Rndm Prcs Engr
ECE 503 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Adv Tpc:Electrical Engr
ECE 696B (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
ECE 699 (Spring 2021) -
Introduction to Communications
ECE 340A (Spring 2021) -
Research
ECE 900 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2020) -
Probablty+Rndm Prcs Engr
ECE 503 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2020) -
Information Theory
ECE 636 (Spring 2020) -
Information Theory
MATH 636 (Spring 2020) -
Adv Tpc:Electrical Engr
ECE 696B (Fall 2019) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2019) -
Research
ECE 900 (Fall 2019) -
Thesis
ECE 910 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2018) -
Introduction to Communications
ECE 340A (Fall 2018) -
Thesis
ECE 910 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2018) -
Information Theory
ECE 636 (Spring 2018) -
Information Theory
MATH 636 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2017) -
Probablty+Rndm Prcs Engr
ECE 503 (Fall 2017) -
Research
ECE 900 (Fall 2017) -
Thesis
ECE 910 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Adv Tpc:Electrical Engr
ECE 696B (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2016) -
Probablty+Rndm Prcs Engr
ECE 503 (Fall 2016) -
Research
ECE 900 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2016) -
Introduction to Communications
ECE 340A (Spring 2016) -
Research
ECE 900 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Tandon, R., & Sezgin, A. (2019). Interference Management: An information-theoretic perspective. In Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond, I. Maric, O. Simeone, H. V. Poor, Eds.. Cambridge University Press.
- Mukherjee, P., Tandon, R., & Ulukus, S. (2017). Physical Layer Security with Delayed, Hybrid and Alternating Channel State Knowledge. In Information Theoretic Approaches to Security & Privacy. Cambridge University Press.
Journals/Publications
- Attia, M. A., Kumar, D., & Tandon, R. (2020). The capacity of private information retrieval from uncoded storage constrained databases. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66(11), 6617--6634.
- Berian, A., Staab, K., Teku, N., Ditzler, G., Bose, T., & Tandon, R. (2020). Adversarial filters for secure modulation classification. arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06785.
- Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2020). Communication efficient federated learning over multiple access channels. arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08737.
- Jiang, B. o., Li, M., & Tandon, R. (2020). Local information privacy and its application to privacy-preserving data aggregation. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
- Mutangana, J., & Tandon, R. (2020). Topological Interference Management with Confidential Messages. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.14503.
- Peken, T., Adiga, S., Tandon, R., & Bose, T. (2020). Deep learning for svd and hybrid beamforming. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 19(10), 6621--6642.
- Xiao, X., Vasi'c, B., Tandon, R., & Lin, S. (2020). Designing finite alphabet iterative decoders of ldpc codes via recurrent quantized neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 68(7), 3963--3974.
- Zhang, W., Jiang, B. o., Li, M., Tandon, R., Liu, Q., & Li, H. (2020). Aggregation-based location privacy: An information theoretic approach. Computers & Security, 97, 101953.
- Attia, M., & Tandon, R. (2019). Near Optimal Coded Data Shuffling for distributed learning. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 7325-7349.
- Mutangana, J., & Tandon, R. (2019). Blind MIMO Cooperative Jamming: Secrecy via ISI Heterogeneity without CSIT. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 15, 447-461.
- Seif, M., Tandon, R., & Li, M. (2019). Secure Retrospective Interference Alignment. Entropy.
- Zhang, W., Tandon, R., Li, M., & Li, H. (2019). Online Location Trace Privacy: An Information Theoretic Approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 235-250.
- Azimi, S., Simeone, O., Sengupta, A., & Tandon, R. (2018). Online Edge Caching and Wireless Delivery in Fog-Aided Networks with Dynamic Content Popularity. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications (JSAC).More infoSpecial Issue on Caching, 36(6): 1189-1202, 2018.
- Jeon, Y., Lee, N., & Tandon, R. (2018). Degrees of Freedom and Achievable Rate of Wide-Band Multi-cell Multiple Access Channels with No CSIT. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1772-1786.More info66(4):1772-1786, April 2018.
- Padaki, A. V., Tandon, R., & Reed, J. H. (2018). Efficient Spectrum Access and Co-Existence with Receiver Nonlinearity: Frameworks and Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 6404-6418.
- Padaki, A. V., Tandon, R., & Reed, J. H. (2018). On Adjacent Channel Co-existence with Receiver Nonlinearity. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 7325-7349.More info17(7): 4922-4936,2018.
- Azimi, S. M., Simeone, O., & Tandon, R. (2017). Content Delivery in Fog-Aided Small-Cell Systems with Offline and Online Caching. Entropy, 19(7).More info(Special Issue on Network Information Theory).
- Kumar, A., Tandon, R., & Clancy, T. C. (2017). On the Latency and Energy Efficiency of Distributed Storage Systems. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 221-233.More info5(2)
- Mukherjee, P., Tandon, R., & Ulukus, S. (2017). Secure Degrees of Freedom Region of the Two-User MISO Broadcast Channel with Alternating CSIT. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
- Sengupta, A., & Tandon, R. (2017). Improved Approximation of Storage-Rate Tradeoff for Caching with Multiple Demands. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1940-1955.More info65(5)
- Sengupta, A., Tandon, R., & Simeone, O. (2017). Fog-Aided Wireless Networks for Content Delivery: Fundamental Latency Tradeoffs. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 6650-6678.More info63(10)
- Lashgari, S., Tandon, R., & Avestimehr, S. (2016). MISO Broadcast Channel with Hybrid CSIT: Beyond Two Users. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 62(12), 7056-7077.
- Tandon, R., Amuru, S., Clancy, T. C., & Buehrer, R. (2016). Towards Optimal Distributed Storage Systems with Exact Repair. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 62(6), 3477-3492.
- Kumar, A., Sengupta, A., Tandon, R., & Clancy, T. C. (2015). Dynamic Resource Allocation for Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in LTE Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 5232-5245.
- Perlaza, S., Tandon, R., Poor, H. V., Han, Z., Perlaza, S., Tandon, R., Poor, H. V., & Han, Z. (2015). Perfect Output Feedback in the Two-user decentralized Interference channel. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
- Quoc, L., Tandon, R., Motani, M., & Poor, H. V. (2015). Approximate Capacity region for the symmetric Gaussian Interference channel with Noisy Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 3737-3762.
- Sengupta, A., Tandon, R., & Clancy, T. C. (2015). Fundamental Limits of Caching with Secure Delivery. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 355-370.
- Shahriar, C., Pan, M. L., Lichtman, M., Clancy, T. C., McGwier, R., Tandon, R., Sodagari, S., & Reed, J. H. (2015). PHY-Layer Resiliency in OFDM: A Tutorial. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 292-314.
- Amuru, S., Tandon, R., Buehrer, R. M., & Clancy, T. C. (2014). Retroactive Anti-Jamming for MISO Broadcast Channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 3593-3619.
Proceedings Publications
- Tandon, R., Bose, T., Ditzler, G., Staab, K., & Berian, A. A. (2021, 11). Adversarial Filters for Secure Modulation Classification. In Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
- Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2020). Mac aware quantization for distributed gradient descent. In GLOBECOM 2020-2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference.
- Dieu, M. J., & Tandon, R. (2020). On Secure Topological Interference Management for Half-rate-feasible Networks. In ICC 2020-2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
- Peken, T., Tandon, R., & Bose, T. (2020). Unsupervised mmWave beamforming via autoencoders. In ICC 2020-2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
- Samy, I., Attia, M. A., Tandon, R., & Lazos, L. (2020). Latent-variable private information retrieval. In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
- Seif, M., Tandon, R., & Li, M. (2020). Wireless federated learning with local differential privacy. In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
- Zhao, T., Jiang, B. o., Li, M., & Tandon, R. (2020). Regret Analysis of Stochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problem with Clustered Information Feedback. In 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
- Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2019, August). On the Upload versus Download Cost for Secure and Private Matrix Multiplication. In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Sweden, August, 2019..More infoW. Chang and R. Tandon,
- Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2019, Spring). Random Sampling for Distributed Coded Matrix Multiplication. In IEEE ICASSP, 2019.
- Jiang, B., Li, M., & Tandon, R. (2019, Spring). Localized Information Privacy with Bounded Prior. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019..
- Lazos, L., Tandon, R., & Samy, I. (2019, Spring 2020). On the Capacity of Leaky Private Information Retrieval. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE ISIT), 1-6.
- Mutangana, J., & Tandon, R. (2019, July). Interference Channels with Confidential Messages: Leveraging OFDM Transmission to Scale up Secure Degrees of Freedom with No CSIT. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, July 2019..
- Samy, I., Tandon, R., & Lazos, L. (2019, July). On the Capacity of Leaky Private Information Retrieval. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, July 2019..
- Seif, M., & Tandon, R. (2019, August). Context Aware Laplacian Mechanism for Local Information Privacy. In IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Sweden, August, 2019..
- Xiao, X., Vasic, B. V., Tandon, R., & Lin, S. (2019, December). Finite alphabet iterative decoding of LDPC codes with coarsely quantized neural networks. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Hawaii, December, 2019.
- Adiga, S., Attia, M., Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2018, Spring). On the Tradeoff between Mode Collapse and Sample Quality in Generative Adversarial networks. In IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP).
- Attia, M., & Tandon, R. (2018, Spring). Approximately optimal Distributed data shuffling. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018.
- Attia, M., Kumar, D., & Tandon, R. (2018, Spring). The capacity of Uncoded storage constrained PIR. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
- Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2018, Spring). On the Capacity of Secure Distributed FFT. In IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP).
- Chang, W., & Tandon, R. (2018, Spring). On the Capacity of Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication. In IEEE GLOBECOM, 2018.
- Jiang, B., Li, M., & Tandon, R. (2018, Spring). Context-Aware Data Aggregation with Localized Information Privacy. In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).
- Peken, T., Tandon, R., & Bose, T. (2018, Spring). Non-Gaussian Signal Detection: How much can massive MIMO help. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO.
- Seif, M., Tandon, R., & Li, M. (2018, Spring). On the Secure Degrees of Freedom of 2 × 2 × 2 Multi-Hop Network with Untrusted Relays. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018.
- Seif, M., Tandon, R., & Li, M. (2018, Spring). On the Secure degrees of freedom of the K-user interference channel with delayed CSIT. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018.
- Tandon, R., Lazos, L., & Ghose, N. (2018, Spring 2018). Secure Device Bootstrapping without Secrets Resistant to Signal Manipulation Attacks. In Proceedings of the Security and Privacy Symposium (Oakland, S&P), 1-15.
- Tandon, R., Wahid, M. A., Almoualem, F., & Kumar, D. (2018, Spring). PIR from Storage Constrained Databases Coded Caching meets PIR. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018.
- Adegbija, T., & Tandon, R. (2017, July). Coding for efficient caching in multicore embedded systems. In International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI).
- Attia, M. A., & Tandon, R. (2017, May). On the Secure Degrees-of-Freedom of Partially Connected Networks with no CSIT. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2017 Communication Theory Symposium.
- Azimi, S., Simeone, O., Sengupta, A., & Tandon, R. (2017, June). Online Edge Caching in Fog-Aided Wireless Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
- Azimi, S., Simeone, O., Sengupta, A., & Tandon, R. (2017, June). Online Edge Caching in Fog-aided Wireless Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany.
- Bahrami, M., Attia, M. A., Tandon, R., & Vasic, B. V. (2017, October). Towards the Exact Rate-Memory Trade-off for Uncoded Caching with Secure Delivery. In 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
- Bahrami, M., Attia, M., Tandon, R., & Vasic, B. V. (2017, October). Towards the Exact Rate-Memory Trade-Off for Uncoded Caching with Secure Delivery. In 55th Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL.
- Chang, W., Tandon, R., & Simeone, O. (2017, November). Cache-aided content delivery in fog-RAN systems with topological information and no CSI. In 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, CA.
- Jeon, Y., Lee, N., & Tandon, R. (2017, June). On the Degrees of Freedom of Wide-Band Multi-cell Multiple Access Channels with no CSIT. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Germany.
- Mutangana, J., Kumar, D., & Tandon, R. (2017, November). MIMO Wiretap Channel with ISI Heterogeneity - Achieving Secure DoF with no CSI. In 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA.
- Mutangana, J., Tandon, R., & Lee, N. (2017, December). Blind Cooperative Jamming: Exploiting ISI Heterogeneity to Achieve Positive Secure DoF. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Singapore.
- Padaki, A., Tandon, R., & Reed, J. H. (2017, May). On Scalability and Interference Avoidance in Nonlinear Adjacent Channel Interference Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium).
- Peken, T., Tandon, R., & Bose, T. (2017, October). Map-reduce based Hybrid beamforming: trade-off between complexity and cost. In IEEE WInnComm 2017.
- Tandon, R. (2017, October). The Capacity of Cache Aided Private Information Retrieval. In 55th Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL.
- Tandon, R., Koh, J., Simeone, O., & Kang, J. (2017, March). Cloud-Aided Edge Caching with Wireless Multicast Fronthauling in Fog Radio Access Networks. In IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
- Attia, M., & Tandon, R. (2016, December). Information Theoretic Limits of Data Shuffling for Distributed Learning. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016.
- Attia, M., & Tandon, R. (2016, October 2016). On the Worst-case Communication Overhead for Distributed Data Shuffling. In Proceedings of Allerton 2016.
- Azimi, S., Simeone, O., & Tandon, R. (2016, December 2016). Fundamental Limits on Latency in Small-Cell Caching Systems: An Information-Theoretic Analysis. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom).
- Krishnan, S., Butler, P., Tandon, R., Leskovec, J., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2016, May). Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New Approaches to Forecasting Cascades. In ACM Web Science Conference.
- Sengupta, A., Tandon, R., & Clancy, T. (2016, November 2016). Layered Caching for Heterogeneous Storage. In 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
- Sengupta, A., Tandon, R., & Simeone, O. (2016, March). Cache Aided Wireless Networks: Tradeoffs between Storage and Latency. In Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ.
- Tandon, R., & Simeone, O. (2016, July). Cloud-Aided Wireless Networks with Edge Caching: Fundamental Latency Tradeoffs in Fog Radio Access Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
- Elyasi, M., Mohajer, S., & Tandon, R. (2015, June). Linear Exact Repair Rate Region of (k+1, k, k) distributed Storage Systems: a new approach. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong.
- Geng, C., Tandon, R., & Jafar, S. (2015, December). On the Symmetric 2-user Deterministic Interference Channel with Confidential Messages. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA.
- Khadivi, P., Tandon, R., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2015, June). Online Denoising of Discrete Noisy Data. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong.
- Khadivi, P., Tandon, R., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2015, September). Time series Forecasting via noisy channel reversal. In IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Boston MA.
- Lashgari, S., Tandon, R., & Avestimehr, S. (2015, June). A General Outer Bound for MISO Broadcast Channel with heterogenous CSIT. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong.
- Lashgari, S., Tandon, R., & Avestimehr, S. (2015, June). Three user MISO Broadcast Channel: How Much can CSIT Heterogeneity Help?. In IEEE International Conference on Communications, London, UK.
- Mohajer, S., & Tandon, R. (2015, June). New Bounds on the (n, k, d) Storage Systems with Exact Repair. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong.
- Mukherjee, M., Tandon, R., & Ulukus, S. (2015, June). Secrecy for MISO Broadcast Channels via Alternating CSIT. In IEEE International Conference on Communications, London, UK.
- Mukherjee, P., Tandon, R., & Ulukus, S. (2015, June). Secrecy for MISO Broadcast Channel with Heterogenous CSIT. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong.
- Ning, Y., Muthiah, S., Tandon, R., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2015, August). Uncovering News-Twitter reciprocity via Interaction Patterns. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social network Analysis and Mining, Paris.
- Sengupta, A., Tandon, R., & Clancy, T. C. (2015, June). Improved Approximation of Storage-Rate Tradeoff for Caching via New Outer Bounds. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong.