A BHISHEK K UMAR G UPTA

2501 Lake Austin Blvd, Tx 78703

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E DUCATION
2012-P RESENT

2005-2010

PhD (CommNetS), Electrical and Computer Engineering

CPI 4.0/4.0
University of Texas at Austin
B.Tech MTech Dual Degree, Electical Engineering
CPI 9.6/10.0 (BT), 10.0/10.0 (MT)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

R ESEARCH
University of Texas at Austin
PhD Research
Supervisor: Prof Jeff Andrews & Prof Robert Heath

A UG 2012- P RESENT

MIMO HetNet modelling and Load Balancing: Analysis of a HetNet MIMO model using stochastic geometry,
its optimal association rule and load balancing
mmWave spectrum access Analysis of a HmmWave HetNet using stochastic geometry and spectrum sharing
and licensing
IIT Kanpur
MTech Research
M AY 2009- J UNE 2010
Supervisor:Prof Adrish Banerjee & Prof Ajit Chaturvedi Impact of Antenna Correlation on Multiuser MIMO
and Correlation Mode Selection based User Scheduling Algorithms
Derivation of closed form expressions for multiuser MIMO-MAC system in full and no correlation scenario.
Analytical Analysis of Antenna Correlation Beneficial impact at low SNR region in multiuser MIMO with proof.
Proposed 3 Schemes jointly named as Correlation Mode Selection based User Scheduling Algorithms Studied
4G mobile protocols (LTE and LTE-A) for possible application. Attended workshop of 4G Wireless and International Mobile Telecommunication Advanced (IMT-A) Evaluation Groups in July, 2009 held at CEWiT, IIT
Chennai (by Telecom Center of Excellence, India)

E XPERIENCE
Professional Experience
Applied Micro, Pune
Design Engineer II
A UG 2010-A PRIL 2012
Worked on designing of SATA 2.0 and USB 3.0 block on SOC level. Work involved integrating Synopsys AHSATA
core, designing the glue and support logic in Verilog.
Worked on Queue manager interface. Work involved improvement of the block design, bug fixes and its verification. Module works as block side interface for inter-block communication using queue management.
Worked on verification of complete chip. Work involved experience with System Verilog and Open Verification
Methodology (OVM), creating of test cases and debugging the issues.
Professional Internships
Futurewei (Huawei R& D), Bridgewater, NJ
Research Intern
M AY -A UGUST 14,M AY -A UG -2015
Work involved simulation environment development and performance analysis of active antenna system with
stochastic and ray tracing model and DIDO system.

Academic Internships
Cranfield University,UK
Guide: Dr Shaun A Forth
M AY 2008-J UNE 2008
Development of MAD package for Efficient Reverse mode Automatic Differentiation: Developed the MAD
package for revaluation of global tape in reverse mode AD. Succeeded to increase the performance by more
than 5 times in the sense of computation time.The package has been sold to TOMLAB Optimization.
Development of Gradient Enhanced PSO: Developed a new hybrid algorithm of optimization titled GEPSO on
the concepts of particle swarm optimization and gradient methods with automatic differentiation (now known
as GRASP). Tested the algorithm over 7 benchmark functions and confirmed fast convergence than PSO. Also
worked over application of PSO on collision avoidance problem of UAV.
IMMT (CSIR)
Guide: Prof B K Mishra
D ECEMBER 2007
Generation of Spiral Surface for Extraction Simulation of Particles:
Developed and implemented an
algorithm for generation of a uniform 3D spiral mesh for providing surface to a particle extraction simulation
based on DEM method.
Teaching Experience
ECE, UT Austin
Teaching Assistant
J AN 2015-M AY 2015, A UGUST 2012-M AY 2013
Worked as Teaching Assistant under Prof S. Sanghavi for Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes Course
in Fall 2012 and Prof R. Flake for Introduction to Automatic Control Course in Spring 2013 in ECE, UT-Austin
Hewlet Packard Education Services
Instructor, MATLAB
M AY 2009-J UNE 2012
Worked as instructor for MATLAB at HPES. The work involved designing the course, the full organization of the
course, teaching as an instructor along with managing the resources for it.Conducted the following technical
sessions on MATLAB as instructor
June 2012, Introduction to Numerical Analysis using MATLAB Noida (India), 6 days
July 2011, Tools in MATLAB: Signal Proc. & Communications BBDNITM, Lucknow
June 2011, Engineering in MATLAB: Tools and Simulink JSS Noida, 11 days course
June 2010 & May 2009, Control Systems in MATLAB BIT Meerut, 7days
July 2010, Control and Power systems in MATLAB SRIT Jabalpur, 11 days
Invited Speaker, Talks and courses in MATLAB
Given following invited talks and short courses in MATLAB at various prestigious engineering colleges in India:
March 2011, Engineering in MATLAB 3 days Course at HBTI Kanpur
April 2010, Talk: Introduction to MATLAB and Its Application in Electrical at Integral University, Lucknow
April 2010, Talk: Introduction to MATLAB for Mechanical Students, at HBTI Kanpur
March 2010, Talk: MATLAB for Mechanical Engineers, At Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow
EE IIT Kanpur
Teaching Assistant
J ULY 2009-M AY 2010
Worked as Teaching Assistant for one year under Prof Adrish Banerjee in Department of Electrical Engineering
at IIT Kanpur for Cryptography Course and Summer Workshops.
Instructor
Advanced Courses in MATLAB
M AY 2009 AND N OV 2009
Organized and taught two advanced courses in MATLAB at IIT Kanpur. The work involved full teaching responsibility, homework assignments and complete organization of course.

P UBLICATIONS
Books
2014
2010

Numerical Methods in MATLAB

Abhishek Kr Gupta, Apress (Springer)
MATLAB By Examples
Abhishek Kr Gupta, Finch Publications

Book Chapter
2012 An AD-Enabled Optimization Toolbox in LabVIEW
Abhishek Kr Gupta and Shaun A Forth, Lecture Notes in Recent Advances In Algorithmic Differentiation,
Also published at International Conference on Automatic Differentiation-AD2012, Fort Collins (CO)
Journal
2014 Downlink Multi-Antenna Hetrogenerous Cellular Network with Load Balancing
Abhishek Kr. Gupta, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Sriram Vishwanath, Jeffrey G. Andrews, IEEE Trans in Communication, 62(11), pp 4052-4067, 2014
Conferences
2015 Distributed Self Localization of Sensors with Poisson Deployment using Extended Kalman Filter
Abhishek Kr. Gupta, Somsubhra Barik, Harris Vikalo, WCNC, New Orleans
2014

Downlink Coverage Probability in MIMO Hetnets with Flexible Cell Selection

Abhishek Kr. Gupta, Harpreet S. Dhillon, Sriram Vishwanath, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Globecom, Austin

2013

SNR Wall for Generalized Energy Detection Under Noise Uncertainty in Cognitive Radio
Sanket Kalamkar, Adrish Banerjee, Abhishek Kr Gupta, Published in Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2013

2011

Development of ANN River Flow Model using Particle Swarm Optimization

Ravikumar Ganti and Abhishek Kr Gupta, Published at National Conference on Hydraulics and Water
Resources-2011, Surat (India) and in Journal of Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH)

2008

Avoidance of Threat Zone by UAV for Automated Navigation

Arpit Gupta, Abhishek Kr Gupta, Cosmin Bocaniala, Venkat VS Sastry, Published at IEEE International
conference, INDICON-2008, Kanpur (India)

2008

LVAD package: Implementation of Forward Mode Automatic Differentiation in LabVIEW using

Operator Overloading
Abhishek Kr Gupta and Amrit Agrahari, Published in the proceeding-VI Mantra 2008,National Instruments

AWARDS AND A CHIEVMENTS

GEFS Leadership Award
2009-2010
Awarded the prestigious GE Foundation Leadership Award by General Electric (GE) Foundation and Institute of
International Education (I.I.E.) for academic year 2009-2010 for excellence in academics and future potential.
Attended Energy to Innovate workshop in Bangalore
Academic Excellence Award
2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Awarded Academic Excellence Award consecutively four years by IIT Kanpur for securing high SPI (semester
performance index).
Dharam Hinduja Scholarship
2003-2010
Selected for Dharam Hinduja Scholarship on the basis of interview and position in merit in high-school (2003).
NLSTSE
2004, 2005
1st in Kanpur at National Level Science Talent Search Examination 2004 and 2005 Conducted by Unified Coun-

cil, Chennai in two consecutive year 2004 and 2005

S OFTWARE SKILLS
T ECHNICAL
L ANGUAGES
D OCUMENT W RITING
G RAPHICS / A NIMATION
P LATFORMS

MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, LabVIEW, QuestaSim, PSPICE, MicroCap, Protel,

Verdi
Android SDK, Verilog, System Verilog, C/C++, JAVA, HTML/PHP/ASP/MySQL,
MATLAB, ITPP, Perl
LATEX, MicroSoft Office
3Ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, OpenGL
Linux (Shell Scripting in CSH), Windows XP/7

R ELEVANT C OURSES
UT -A USTIN

IIT K ANPUR

Wireless
Communication,
Advanced
Telecomm.
Networks (Stochastic Geometry)
Probability and Stochastic Processes, Advanced Probability
Digital Signal Processing Representation and
Analysis of Random Signal, Probability and
Statistics,Digital Image Processing Signal,
System and Networks,
Analog and Digital VLSI Circuits, Microelectronics Digital Electronics & Microprocessor
Technology

Game Theory, Estimation Theory

Statistical Modelling, Large Scale Optimization, Randomized Algorithm

Wireless Communications, Communication
systems, Introduction to Computing, RFID
And Wireless Sensors,
Information and Coding Theory, Labs Electronics and Microprocessor Control System,
Electromagnetic Theory

E XTRA -C URRICULAR A CTIVITIES AND P OSITION OF R ESPONSIBILITY

Reviewer for various conferences such as VTC, ICC, ISIT, NCC
Member, Committee for Social Responsibility (CSR), Applied Micro Pvt Ltd, Pune
Interested in Website Development and Management (PHP/MySQL), Designed Web Portal for Kanpur Parivartan
Forum, a social initiative at Kanpur, Head of Web-Team for SPICMACAY-IIT Kanpur Chapter (2009-2010),
Mentor and Member, Evaluation Committee, IITK EE Summer Camp 2010
Mentor, IITK EE Summer Camp 2009 (project: Implementing image processing operations in MATLAB.
Volunteer, Prayas, a social group at IIT Kanpur involved in teaching poor children.
Interested in Animation and Computer Graphics, won couple of prizes in college level animation contests
Got second prize in Analogic: on the spot analog circuit designing contest at Techkriti 2008, inter colligate
technical festival of IITK.
Coordinator, Dance Events, inter colligate cultural festival