Faculty

SPCRC has 9 faculty members. Meet the people who make SPCRC a great place to work !

Faculty at SPCRC

SPCRC has 9 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

Assistant 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



Anil Kumar Vuppala

Dr. Anil Kumar Vuppala

Associate Professor

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

Syed Azeemuddin

Dr. Azeemuddin Syed

Associate Professor

Area: RFIC design, optical devices using ring lasers, micro/nano electronics and integrated photonics

  • Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University)
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