Ravi Tandon

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

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