Kartik Venkat

Hi, I am Kartik, a Ph.D candidate in the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University, where I am affiliated with the Information Systems Laboratory. I am lucky to have Prof. Tsachy Weissman as my advisor.

I also had the fortune of interacting with the late Prof. Thomas Cover, who was also my co-advisor. Here is a link to the memorial website, where many former colleagues and students have shared memories of their interactions with Tom.

Before joining Stanford, I studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Here is a link to my Resume

Research Interests

• Information and Estimation Theory

• Stochastic Processes

• Wireless Communications

Publications

• Pointwise Relations between Information and Estimation in the Poisson Channel
  Jiantao Jiao, Kartik Venkat and Tsachy Weissman, to be presented at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, 2013.

• Information, Estimation, and Lookahead in the Gaussian Channel
  Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman, Yair Carmon and Shlomo Shamai, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
  

  • The Role of Lookahead in Estimation under Gaussian Noise, to be presented at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, 2013.

  • On Information, Estimation and Lookahead, appeared in Proceedings of the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 2012.

• Pointwise Relations between Information and Estimation in Gaussian Noise
  Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp. 6264-6281, October 2012.
  A shorter version appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2012
  Received the ISIT Student Paper Award: announcements at IT Society website, CSoI News, EE Stanford.

• Joint Source-Channel Coding of one Random Variable over the Poisson Channel
  Albert No, Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman
  Appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2012.

• Reference Based Genome Compression
  B. G. Chern, I. Ochoa, A. Manolakos, A. No., K. Venkat, T. Weissman
  Presented at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, EPFL, Sep 2012.

• Stabilising Stochastic Linear Plants via Erroneous Channels
  Girish N. Nair, Kartik Venkat
  Appeared in Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, July 2010.

Education

• Ph.D. Candiate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Present

• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2012

• B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, June 2010

Courses

Information Theory (A,B), Theory of Probability (A,B,C), Universal Schemes in Information Theory, Network Information Theory, Statistical Signal Processing, Inference, Estimation and Information Processing, Wireless Communications, Principles of Cooperation in Wireless Networks, Stochastic Systems, Mathematical Finance

Some Past Projects

• Resource Allocation in Cooperative Communications, Bachelor's Thesis, IIT Kanpur, 2010.

• Compressed Sensing in UWB Systems, Term Paper in a course on Wireless Systems, IIT Kanpur, 2010.

• Analysis of fMRI Data, Cognitive Sciences course project, IIT Kanpur, 2009.

• Application of Network Coding in TCP, course project, IIT Kanpur, 2009.