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ANANT SAHAI

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Assistant Professor
sahai@eecs.berkeley.edu
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267 Cory Hall
UC Berkeley 94720-1770
Sp08 Office Hours: Tue 3:30-4:30pm and Thu 9-10AM in 267 Cory

Announcements:

5/1/08: No office hours due to the EECS Faculty retreat. Please make an appointment by email.

Full current publication list (updated 02/08) now available.

Information for the ISIT 2007 tutorial attendees is available here. The full presentation set of my slides is also available online here for your perusal. The tutorial mostly supersedes the earlier slides on noiseless feedback, side-information, and delay, and its sequel on how to get gains from noisy or otherwise limited feedback. The material in this other one that interprets some of the results in the control context is different.

I am in the process of posting current preprints onto the arXiv.org preprint server.

Information for the DySPAN05 tutorial attendees is available here.


Research Interests:

My areas of interest are communications, control, and signal processing. Within that range, my focus is on the communications theory side, particularly in the areas of wireless and information theory. Within information theory, my main interest is in developing the conceptual tools needed to understand feedback, interaction, delay, reliability, and complexity. To that end, I am interested in control and dynamical systems as they provide well understood mathematical models that do not mesh with the classical notions from information theory. They also tell us why delay is important. On the wireless communication side, I am interested in power consumption and how multi-scale heterogenous wireless systems can coexist peacefully. Cognitive radio is of particular interest.

My research sits within the Wireless Foundations center, where we study the fundamental basis for the wireless technologies of the future. The following pages give more details about some of my research interests, with links to additional publications, some representative talk slides, etc.


Some recent research results: (descriptions can be found here and here.


For Students:

U.C. Berkeley is a great place to learn and develop into a world class scientist/engineer. If you are admitted or are already here, you might be interested in my
unofficial page of advice. I am currently willing to take on new undergrad students who want to do research. I might take on a new graduate student. Please contact me if you are already admitted to Berkeley. If you are considering applying to Berkeley, please do so. Before contacting me directly, please check out this page for more information. I generally do not respond to unsolicited emails from potential students, interns or postdocs.


Brief Bio

Before joining the faculty at Berkeley in 2002, I spent 2001 at the startup Enuvis, Inc. where I was on the theoretical/algorithmic side of a team that developed new techniques for GPS detection in very low SNR environments (such as those encountered indoors in urban areas). From 1994-2000, I was a graduate student at MIT studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6 in MIT-speak) and was based in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems under Prof. Sanjoy Mitter. My research interests there started in machine understanding but shifted toward the intersection of control and information theory. I did my undergraduate work in EECS here at the University of California at Berkeley from 1990-1994.


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