Nihar Jindal

Associate Professor
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Digital Technology Center
Office: EE/CS Room 6-119, DTC Room 427

Contact Information:
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
200 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 625-6306
Fax: (612) 625-4583
Email: nihar at umn dot edu

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Digital Technology Center at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I received the B.S degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001 and 2004.

Research Interests

Multiple-User/Multiple-Antenna Communication Networks
Communication Limits of Sensor/Ad-Hoc Networks
Multi-User Information Theory
Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Communication

Research Projects

Non-Equilibrium Information Theory (DARPA - Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks program)

Graduate Students

Juyul Lee (PhD, Jan. 2010, now employed at ETRI, Korea)
Joe Blomer (MS, May 2010, now employed at Hitachi)
Niranjay Ravindran
Peng Wu
Amogh Rajanna
Omar Mehanna
Balasubramanian Gopalakrishnan

Publications

Teaching

Fall 2010: EE 55881 - Information Theory and Coding

Spring 2010: EE 5505 - Wireless Communication

Fall 2009: EE 5501 - Digital Communication

Spring 2008: EE 8950 - Advanced Topics in Wireless Communication

Fall 2007: EE 5581 - Information Theory and Coding

Spring 2007: EE 5505 - Wireless Communications

Fall 2006: EE 3025 - Statistical Methods in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Spring 2006: EE 5505 - Wireless Communications

Fall 2005: EE 5581 - Information Theory and Coding

Spring 2005: EE 8510 - Advanced Topics in Communications (Multi-User Information Theory)