Staff Engineer

sanket.kalamkar.work (at) gmail.com
Qualcomm Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA

Before joining Qualcomm, I was fortunate enough to be hosted by Prof. François Baccelli. I spent two fascinating years in Paris, France, where I was a member of DYOGENE, LINCS, and INRIA. Before that, I was a Simons postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Baccelli at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA and a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Martin Haenggi at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Prior to that, I received my PhD in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, where I was advised by Prof. Adrish Banerjee.

My broad research area is Wireless Communications. In modern world, almost everyone (including a new-born baby) has been in touch with smartphones. And almost everyone owning a smartphone--willingly or unwillingly--has heard hot words "WiFi, 3G, 4G, and 5G." And many probably have wondered why sometimes the wireless internet on their phones works fast and sometimes slow. I do also wonder the same. Through my work, I try to understand what factors impact the quality of wireless communication and propose ways to improve it. I use mathematical and simulation techniques to analyze the performace of wireless communication and obtain insights that aid in designing better wireless world.

In particular, my current work interests are:

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  • Wireless networks (cellular, ad hoc, vehicular)
  • Queueing theory
  • Green communications
  • Spectrum sharing

News


    (September 2018) Talk at University of Texas at Austin on "Fine-grained analysis of wireless networks: Spatial outage capacity and rate control."

  1. (October 2018) Joined as a Simons postdoctoral fellow in Prof. François Baccelli's group.

  2. (February 2019) Talk at IIT Madras on "Fine grained analysis of wireless networks: Spatial outage capacity and rate control."

  3. (March 2019) Joined as a postdoctoral researcher at INRIA, Paris.

  4. (May 2020) Talk on "Beam Management in 5G" at LINCS, Paris. The video of the presentation is here.

  5. (December 2020) Best paper award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2020. The extended version of the paper is here. A talk on this work is here.

  6. (May 2021) Joined as a Staff Systems Engineer at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.


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