Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Lehigh University

Email: parv DOT v AT lehigh DOT edu
Brief Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Lehigh University. Previously, I was a visiting Post-Doc at the University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Prof. Venkat Anantharam. I received my B.Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2002, and my M.S and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering in 2005 and 2007 respectively from Cornell University under the advice of Prof. Lang Tong.

My current research interests are in developing theoretical foundations for privacy in networks. Specfifcally, I apply tools in statistical signal processing, information theory and game-theory to study fundamental trade-offs between privacy and performance in networks under different adversarial conditions. I am also interested in studying anonymity in a more general category of networked systems such as peer production and transportation. More details about my research can be found here. My doctoral research was in the area of wireless sensor networks, specifically on distributed multiple access communication and statistical inference in large networks. Two publications that resulted from my doctoral research received the 2005 Leonard G. Abraham Prize and a 2006 IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award.

Curriculum Vitae: html, pdf

Selected Publications (Full list can be found here.)

Journal and Preprints
  • "Anonymous Networking amidst Eavesdroppers" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He and L. Tong
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Security, Vol. 54, No 6, pp. 2770-2784, June 2008.

  • "Towards an Analytical Approach to Anonymous Wireless Networking" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He, L. Tong and S. Wicker
    IEEE Communications Magazine: Special Issue on Security in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Vol. 46, No 2, pp. 140-146, Feb. 2008.

  • "Quantization for Maximin ARE in Distributed Estimation" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong and A. Swami
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, Issue 7, pp. 3596-3605, July 2007.

  • "Sensor Networks with Mobile Access Points: Optimal Random Access and Coding" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, S. Adireddy and L. Tong
    IEEE Journal for Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 22, Issue 6, pp. 1058-1068, Aug. 2004.


 Conference Proceedings
  • "Anonymity under Light Traffic using a Network of Mixes" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and V. Anantharam
    47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2008.

  • "Incentivizing Anonymous 'Peer-to-Peer' Reviews" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and A. Sahai
    47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2008.

  • "On the Anonymity of Chaum Mixes" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and V. Anantharam
    2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

  • "Anonymous Networking with Minimum Latency in Multihop Networks" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam and L. Tong
    2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2008.

  • "Minimax Quantization for Distributed Maximum Likelihood Estimation" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong and A. Swami
    2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

  • "Score-Function Quantization for Distributed Estimation" abstract, pdf
    P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong and A. Swami
    40th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.


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