Venkat Anantharam

Research Areas

Research Centers

Berkeley Laboratory for Information and System Sciences (BLISS)
Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics and Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB)

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2025

EE 223. Stochastic Systems: Estimation and Control, MoWe 17:00-18:29, Cory 293

Biography

He received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, 1980, a M.S. in EE from UC Berkeley, 1982, a M.A. in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1983, a C.Phil in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, 1984 and a Ph.D. in EE, UC Berkeley, 1986. Prior to joining the faculty of EECS in 1994, he was a member of the faculty at Cornell University.

Education

1986, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1984, C.Phil, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1983, M.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
1982, M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1980, B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Selected Publications

L. Dolecek and V. Anantharam, "Using Reed-Muller RM(1,m) codes over channels with synchronization and substitution errors," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1430-1443, April 2007.
A. D. Sarwate and V. Anantharam, "Exact emulation of a priority queue with a switch and delay lines," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 115-125, July 2006.
A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "An improved outer bound for the multiterminal source-coding problem," in Proc. 2005 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Information Theory (ISIT '05), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2005, pp. 1406-1410.
P. Pakzad and V. Anantharam, "Estimation and marginalization using the Kikuchi approximation methods," Neural Computation, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1836-1873, Aug. 2005.
V. Anantharam and T. Konstantopoulos, "Regulating functions on partially ordered sets," Order, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 145-183, May 2005.
R. Gharavi and V. Anantharam, "An upper bound for the largest Lyapunov exponent of a Markovian product of nonnegative matrices," Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 332, no. 1-3, pp. 543-557, Feb. 2005.
A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Zero-rate reliability of the exponential-server timing channel," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 447-465, Feb. 2005.
V. Anantharam, "On the Nash dynamics of congestion games with player-specific utility," in Proc. 2004 43rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC '04), Vol. 5, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2004, pp. 4673-4678.
P. Pakzad and V. Anantharam, "A new look at the generalized distributive law," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 1132-1155, June 2004.
P. Anigstein and V. Anantharam, "Ensuring convergence of the MMSE iteration for interference avoidance to the global optimum," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 873-885, April 2003.
P. Viswanath and V. Anantharam, "Optimal sequences for CDMA under colored noise: A Schur-saddle function property," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1295-1318, June 2002.
R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Utility-based rate control in the Internet for elastic traffic," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 272-286, April 2002.
E. Yeo, P. Pakzad, B. Nikolic, and V. Anantharam, "High throughput low-density parity-check decoder architectures," in Proc. 2001 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. (GLOBECOM '01), Vol. 5, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2001, pp. 3019-3024.
E. Yeo, P. Pakzad, B. Nikolic, and V. Anantharam, "VLSI architectures for iterative decoders in magnetic recording channels," IEEE Trans. Magnetics, vol. 37, no. 2, pt. 1, pp. 748-755, March 2001.
P. Viswanath, D. Tse, and V. Anantharam, "Asymptotically optimal water-filling in vector multiple-access channels," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 241-267, Jan. 2001.
N. McKeown, A. Mekkittikul, V. Anantharam, and J. Walrand, "Achieving 100% throughput in an input-queued switch (Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award)," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 1260-1267, Aug. 1999.
S. Venkatesan and V. Anantharam, "The common randomness capacity of a network of discrete memoryless channels," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 215-224, Jan. 1998.
V. Anantharam and S. Verdu, "1998 Information Theory Society Paper Award: Bits through queues," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 4-18, Jan. 1996.
R. Agrawal, D. Teneketzis, and V. Anantharam, "Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation schemes for controlled Markov chains: Finite parameter space," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1249-1259, Dec. 1989.