Hello!

I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University, where I am fortunate to work with Prof. Robert Calderbank. I received my PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering in December 2024 from Rice University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ashutosh Sabharwal. I also received my MS in ECE from Rice in December 2020 under Prof. Sabharwal’s supervision. Prior to joining Rice for graduate school, I received my B.Tech. in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in July 2018.

My research interests are in next-generation (6G) wireless systems (specifically joint sensing and communication) and radar imaging. I employ a multi-faceted approach spanning theoretical analysis, algorithm design, and experimental demonstrations in my research. For more details, head over to my Research page.

My webpage has moved to: https://sites.duke.edu/nishant/

Recent News

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December 2024: Started a new position as a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke.

November 2024: Attended & presented my paper on multi-bounce beyond-field-of-view radar sensing at ACM MobiCom 2024 in Washington DC.

October 2024: Successfully defended my PhD thesis, “Leveraging Multipath to Increase Radar Field-of-View and Sensing Performance”!

August 2024: Our paper, “Hydra: Exploiting Multi-Bounce Scattering for Beyond-Field-of-View mmWave Radar” has been accepted to ACM MobiCom 2024!

May 2024: Attended & presented my paper on multi-bounce velocity vector radar sensing at IEEE/NIST CISA 2024 in Boulder.