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Arun Padakandla

Arun Padakandla

Arun Padakandla

Assistant Professor


Contact Information

Arun Padakandla

  • Office Address: Min H. Kao Building, Room 607
  • Phone: 865-974-5414
  • Fax: 865-974-5483
  • E-mail: arunpr@utk.edu
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Education

  • PhD in Information Theory, University of Michigan, 2014
  • MS in Mathematics, University of Michigan, 2013
  • MS in Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2008

Biography

Arun Padakandla

Arun Padakandla received his MS degree in Electrical Communication Engg (ECE) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 2008. He received an MS degree in Mathematics in 2013 and a Doctorate in Electrical Engg (Systems) in 2014, both from the University of Michigan (UM) at Ann Arbor. Following a short stint as a postdoctoral researcher at UM, Arun worked as a research engineer at Ericsson Research from November 2014 to August 2015. Arun held a center-wide postdoctoral research fellowship from 2015 to 2018 at the Center for Science of Information – an NSF funded science and technology center located at Purdue University. Arun’s research interests lie in information theory, optimization, learning and estimation, computational complexity.


Research

Arun Padakandla

  • Data Science
  • Privacy-preserving Data Analysis
  • Security
  • Information Theory
  • Cybersecurity
  • Communication Networks
  • Optimization
  • Statistical Inference
  • Computation Complexity
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