Faculty

SPCRC has 10 faculty members. Meet the people who make SPCRC a great place to work !

Faculty at SPCRC

SPCRC has 10 faculty members. All the faculty members are highly experienced and hold great expertise in their respective field of research.

Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Professor, Centre Head

Area: Image processing, Medical image analysis, Biological vision

  • Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
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K. R. Sarma

Prof. K. R. Sarma

Professor Emeritus

Area: Communication, Instrumentation and displays

  • Ph.D. (Cornell University)
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Sachin Chaudhari

Dr. Sachin Chaudhari

Associate Professor

Area: Next-generation wireless communication systems (5G), Internet of Things (IoT), Cognitive Radios

  • Ph.D. (Aalto University, Finland)
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Santosh Nannuru

Dr. Santosh Nannuru

Assistant Professor

Area: Signal Processing, Localization and Tracking, Compressive Sensing


  • Ph.D. (McGill University, Canada)
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Prasad Krishnan

Dr. Prasad Krishnan

Assistant Professor

Area: Coding theory for high throughput system, Group Testing, Error Correcting Codes for DNA storage, Coded Caching

Lalitha Vadlamani

Dr. Lalitha Vadlamani

Associate Professor

Area: Coding Theory, Information Theory, Signal Processing, Distributed Storage Systems

Arti Yardi

Arti Yardi

Assistant Professor

Area: Covert communication and security, Applications of machine learning in communication systems, Error correcting codes with focus on cyclic and LDPC codes.

Praful Mankar

Dr. Praful Mankar

Assistant Professor

Area: Next-generation wireless networks, Internet-of-things (IoT), Age-of-Information (AoI), Stochastic Geometry, Queueing Theory.


Gowtham Kurri

Dr. Gowtham R. Kurri

Assistant Professor

Area: Information-Theoretic Privacy, Machine Learning, Secure Multi-Party Computation



Saikiran Bulusu

Dr. Saikiran Bulusu

Assistant Professor

Area: Federated Learning, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Robust Statistics, Deep Learning, Compressed Sensing, Group Testing

  • Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
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Anil Kumar Vuppala

Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala

Associate Professor

Area: Speech Processing in Wireless Environment, Speech Recognition, Speaker Recognition