Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory

Department of Engineering

Ramji Venkataramanan

Background - Research - Publications - Teaching - Group

Position: Professor of Information Engineering

Office Location: BE3-12

Telephone: 01223 766767 (If calling from outside the UK, replace the 0 with +44)

E-mail: rv285 [at] cam.ac.uk

(My last name is pronounced "Ven-cut-rum-uh-nun")

Background

I am Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and a Staff Fellow at Trinity Hall. I am part of the Signal Processing and Communications Lab in the Division of Information Engineering.

I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2008, and my undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2002. Before joining the University of Cambridge in 2013, I held post-doctoral positions at Stanford University and Yale University. I am an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and from 2018-21 was a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Research

My research interests are broadly in information theory, high-dimensional statistics, and statistical machine learning. Click here for more information.

Publications

For a complete list of publications, please click here.

Teaching

Michaelmas Term 2023: 3F7 Information Theory and Coding

Lent Term 2024: 2P6 Communications;

I am also a Director of Studies in Engineering at Trinity Hall.

Group

Past members:

  • Kuan Hsieh (PhD, graduated in 2021)
  • Mahed Abroshan (PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, graduated in 2019)
  • Adam Greig (PhD, graduated in 2018)
  • Lan V. Truong (Postdoc, 2020)
  • Pavan Srinath (Postdoc, 2015-18)