Viveck R Cadambe E-mail: viveck@engr.psu.edu Phone no : +1-814-867-4774 http://www.ee.psu.edu/viveck/ Current Employment Assistant Professor Researcher Aug 2014 - Current Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA. Previous Positions Postdoctoral Researcher Sep 2011 - Aug 2014 Held a joint postdoctoral position at: (i) Research Lab of Electronics (RLE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA USA and (ii) Department of Electrical Engineering, Boston University, Boston MA. Education University of California, Irvine September 2006 - September 2011 Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dissertation: Network Interference Management via Interference Alignment Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India August 2001 - July 2006 M.Tech in Electrical Engineering B.Tech in Electrical Engineering Research Interests Information and coding theory, wireless communications and networks, fault tolerant distributed storage, data center networks, distributed computing systems and theory. Industry Experience Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA June 2010 - Sep 2010 Summer Intern. Mindtree Consulting Ltd, Bangalore, India May 2004 - July 2004 Summer Intern. Teaching Experience Pennsylvania State University Aug-Dec 2014 Instructor for undergraduate course Communication Systems II Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sep-Dec 2013 Guest lecturer for undergraduate course in Digital Communications (4 lectures). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mar 2013 Guest lecturer for graduate course in Computer Networks (1 lecture). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sep-Dec 2012 Guest lecturer for undergraduate course in Digital Communications (2 lectures). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nov 2011 Guest lecturer for graduate course in Network Coding (2 lectures).
University of California, Irvine Jan 2011 - Mar 2011 Teaching assistant for undergraduate course on Engineering Probability. University of California, Irvine Jan 2010 - Mar 2010 Teaching assistant for undergraduate course on Signals and Systems. IIT Madras January 2006 - May 2006 Teaching assistant for undergraduate course in Digital Signal Processing. IIT Madras August 2005 - November 2005 Teaching assistant for undergraduate course on Principles Of Communications. Mentoring Co-supervising one Ph.D student and one undergraduate research project (UROP) at MIT. Previously supervised two summer UROPs and two high school students for their summer internship at MIT. Awards and Honors 2014 IEEE Ineternational Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) Best Paper Award. 2011 CPCC Best Dissertation Award at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UCI 2009 Information Theory Society Best Paper Award (Journal Paper 1.). 2008-09 UCI Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Best Paper Award (Journal Paper 1.). Awarded the Center for Pervasive Communication and Computing (CPCC) fellowship at UCI for the year 2007-08. Paper 15. among two papers nominated for the best paper award for the Communication Theory Symposium in IEEE ICC 2008. Professional Activities Member IEEE, Associate Editor for Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2014-current. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC),. Reviewer for NSF Panel in Communication and Information Foundations (CIF), 2013. Technical program committee (TPC) member of IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Conference (PIMRC) 2013 and Globecom Communication Theory Symposium 2014. Session Chair at IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals Systems and Computing, 2011, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, 2012, 2013 and IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2012. Journal Publications 1. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of the K user Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Aug. 2008, Vol. 54, No. 8,pages 3425-3441. (2009 Information Theory Society Best Paper Award)
2. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Interference Alignment on the Deterministic Channel and Application to Fully Connected Gaussian Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Jan. 2009, Vol. 55, No. 1, pages 269-274. 3. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks with Relays, Feedback, Co-operation and Full Duplex Operation, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2009, Vol. 55, No. 5, pages 2334-2344. 4. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Parallel Gaussian Interference Networks are Not Always Separable, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sep. 2009, Vol. 55, No. 9, pages 3983-3990. 5. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of Wireless X networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sep. 2009, Vol. 55, no. 9, pages 3893-3908. 6. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Chenwei Wang, Interference Alignment with Asymmetric Complex Signaling - Settling the Host-Madsen-Nosratinia Conjecture, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sep. 2010, Vol. 56, no. 9, pages 4552-4565. 7. Krishna S. Gomadam, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A Jafar, A Distributed Numerical Approach to Interference Alignment and Applications to Wireless Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, June 2011, Vol.57, No.6, pages 3309-3322. 8. Chiachi Huang, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A Jafar, On the Capacity and Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the X Channel, IEEE Transactions in Information Theory, Aug, 2012, Vol.58, No.8, pages 5130-5150, 9. Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Viveck R. Cadambe, Repair Optimal Erasure Codes through Hadamard Designs, IEEE Transactions on Information theory, May 2013 Vol.59, No.5, pages 3021-3037. 10. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Hamed Maleki, Kannan Ramchandran, Changho Suh, Asymptotic Interference Alignment for Optimal Repair of MDS Codes in Distributed Data Storage, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2013, Vol. 59, No. 5, pages 2974-2987 11. Hamed Maleki, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Index Coding: An Interference Alignment Perspective IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.60, No.9, pp.5402,5432, Sept. 2014 Unrefereed Publications 12. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Reflections on Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of the K User Interference Channel, IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2009, Pages 5-9. Preprints 13. Viveck R. Cadambe, Nancy A. Lynch, Muriel Medard, Peter Musial Coded Emulation of Atomic Shared Memory Architectures, draft availalbe on http://arxiv.org, also available as MIT CSAIL Technical Report, MIT-CSAIL-TR-2014-015 Conference Publications 14. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Can 100 Speakers talk for 30 minutes in each room within one hour and with zero interference to each others audience, Proceedings of the 45th Allerton Conference, Sep. 2007.
15. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks - What a difference delay makes?, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Oct. 2007. (Invited Paper). 16. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment on the Deterministic Channel and Application to Fully Connected AWGN Interference Networks, Information Theory Workshop, Porto, May 2008. 17. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and Spatial Degrees of Freedom of the K user Interference channel, Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2008. 18. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Duality and Stability Regions of Multi-Rate multiple access and Broadcast Networks, Proceedings of International Symposium of Information Theory, Jul. 2008. 19. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Wireless X networks, Proceedings of International Symposium of Information Theory, Jul. 2008. 20. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Can relays, feedback, co-operation and full-duplex operation increase the degrees of freedom of wireless networks, Proceedings of International Symposium of Information Theory, Jul. 2008. 21. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Multiple Access Outerbounds and the Inseparability of Parallel Gaussian Interference Channels, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2008. 22. Krishna S. Gomadam, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Approaching the Capacity of Wireless Networks through Distributed Interference Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2008. 23. Chiachi Huang, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the (Noisy) X Channel, Proceedings of 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Oct. 2008 (Invited Paper). 24. Chiachi Huang, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and the Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the X Channel, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul. 2009. 25. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, Capacity Region of a Class of Deterministic Z Channels, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul. 2009. 26. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Chenwei Wang Interference Alignment with Asymmetric Complex Signaling, Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Oct. 2009 (Invited Paper). 27. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment via Random Coding and Capacity of a Class of Deterministic Interference Channels, Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Oct. 2009. 28. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Unique Separability and Sum-Capacity of the MAC- Z-BC network, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium On Information Theory, June. 2010. 29. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Hamed Maleki Minimum Bandwidth for Regeneration of Failed Nodes in Distributed Storage, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Network Coding Workshop, June. 2010. 30. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Hamed Maleki Asymptotic Interference Alignment for Distributed Storage Applications, Proceedings of IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov, 2010. (Invited Paper)
31. Viveck R. Cadambe, Cheng Huang, Jin Li Permutation Codes: Optimal Codes for Repair of a Single Failed Node in MDS Code based Distributed Storage Systems., Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July 2011. 32. Dimitris Papailiopoulous, Alexandros Dimakis, Viveck R. Cadambe, Repair Optimal Erasure Codes through Hadamard Designs, Proceedings of the 49th Allerton Conference in Communications, Control and Computing, Sep, 2011. 33. Viveck R. Cadambe, Cheng Huang, Jin Li, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Polynomial Length MDS Codes with Optimal Repair in Distributed Storage Systems, 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computing, Nov, 2011. 34. Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar Tensor Product based Subspace Interference Alignment for Network Coding Applications, 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computing, Nov 2011. (Invited Paper). 35. Viveck R. Cadambe, Multi-Way Relay based Deterministic Broadcast with Side Information: Pair-wise Network Coding is Sum-Capacity Optimal, 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2012, Princeton, NJ (Invited Paper). 36. Hamed Maleki, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Index Coding: An Interference Alignment Perspective IEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2012, MIT. 37. Weifei Zeng, Viveck R. Cadambe, Muriel Medard, An Edge Reduction Lemma for Linear Network Coding and Application to Two-unicast Networks 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Sep., 2012. 38. Vasilis Ntranos, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bobak Nazer, Giuseppe Caire, Feedback Interference Alignment: Exact Alignment for Three Users in Two Time Slots accepted to appear in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2013. 39. Viveck R. Cadambe, Arya Mazumdar An Upper Bound On the Size of Locally Recoverable Codes, Proceedings of the IEEE Network Coding Symposium (Netcod), June, 2013. 40. Vasilis Ntranos, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bobak Nazer, Giuseppe Caire, Integer-forcing Interference Alignment, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July, 2013. 41. Weifei Zeng, Viveck R. Cadambe, Muriel Medard On the Tightness of the Generalized Network Sharing Bound for Two-Unicast-Z Networks, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July, 2013. 42. Vasilis Ntranos, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bobak Nazer, Giuseppe Caire Asymmetric Computeand-Forward, 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Sep., 2013. 43. Zhiying Wang, Viveck R. Cadambe, Multi-version Coding for Distributed Storage, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Jul., 2014. 44. Viveck R. Cadambe, Nancy Lynch, Muriel Mèdard, Peter Musial A Coded Shared Atomic Memory Algorithm for Message Passing Architectures, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Aug., 2014. (Best Paper Award). 45. Zhiying Wang, Viveck Cadambe On Multi-version Coding in Distributed Storage, 2014 IE- EE Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Oct 2014. (Invited Paper).
Invited Talks 1. Interference Alignment: Principles and Applications, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 2009 2. Interference Alignment: Principles and Applications, Indian Institute Technology, Madras,, India, July 2009 3. Interference Alignment: Principles and Applications, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA, August 2009 4. Interference Alignment: Principles and Applications, University of Southern California, CA, USA, June 2010 5. Efficient Recovery of a failed node in Distributed Storage Systems, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Sep 2010 6. Network Interference Management via Interference Alignment, University of Southern California, USA, Mar 2011 7. Network Interference Management via Interference Alignment, University of California San Diego, USA, Mar 2011 8. Network Interference Management via Interference Alignment, California Institute of Technology, USA, May 2011 9. Network Interference Management via Interference Alignment, Massachusets Institute of Technology, USA, May 2011 10. Network Interference Management via Interference Alignment, Boston University, USA, May 2011 11. Coding for Distributed Storage Systems, Netapp, Bangalore, July 2011 12. Interference Management for Wireless Communications and Distributed Storage, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 2011 13. Common Invariant Subspaces and Tensor Products of Interference Alignment in Wireless Communications and Distributed Storage, BIRS Workshop on Algebraic Structure in Network Information Theory, Banff, Canada, August 2011. 14. Two Lectures on Interference Alignment, as a part of Introduction to Network Coding - a graduate course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15. Index Coding and Interference Alignment, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of Calfornia, San Diego, Feb 2012. 16. Breaking Interference Bottlenecks in Data Distribution, University of Minnesota, Feb 2012. 17. Breaking Interference Bottlenecks in Data Distribution, Duke University, March 2012. 18. Multi-Way Relay based Deterministic Broadcast with Side Information: Pair-wise Network Coding is Sum-Capacity Optimal, 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2012, Princeton, NJ. 19. Index Coding and Interference Alignment, BU Workshop on Interference Management, Jun 2012. 20. On the Capacity of Two-Unicast-Z Networks, Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), Feb 2013. 21. Coded Atomic Shared Memory Emulation for Message Passing Architectures, Theory of Distributed Systems Seminar, MIT. 22. Erasure Coding Meets Distributed Computing: Coded Atomic Shared Memory Emulation for Message Passing Architectures, MIT Big Data Symposium 2013.
23. A case for coding in shared memory emulation over distribted storage systems, Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), Feb 2014. 24. Information Flows in Distributed Communications Storage and Computing, Department of Electrical Engineering, Caltech, Mar, 2014. 25. Information Flows in Distributed Communications Storage and Computing, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mar 2014. 26., School of Electrical Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Mar 2014. 27., Computer Engineering and Systems Group Fishbowl Seminar Series, Texas A&M University, Mar 2014. 28., Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Apr 2014. 29., Department Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Apr 2014. 30. Coded Atomic Shared Memory Emulation, Charles River Science of Information Workshop, Apr 2014. 31. On Multi-version Coding in Distributed Storage, Allerton Conference on Communications, Controls and Computing, Oct 2014. 32. Erasure Coding for Consistent Shared Memory, Carnegie Mellon University, Nov 2014. Patents Patent STORAGE CODES FOR DATA RECOVERY with joint inventors Dr. Cheng Huang and Dr. Jin Li at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Published on 2012-07-05.