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
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
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)