Dr. Abhishek Kumar Thakur

Assistant Professor
abhishekt(at)idrbt(dot)ac(dot)in

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph. D. BITS-Pilani
  • M.S. in Information Technology from Capella University, Minneapolis, USA in 2004
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from University of Roorkee, India in 1997.

Research Interests

  • Computer Networks
  • Multimedia Systems
  • Mobile Applications

Professional Experience

  • Worked as Visiting Faculty in BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus from February 2011 to December 2017 and July 2018-December 2018
  • Worked as Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad from March 2009 to February 2011
  • Worked as Principle Engineer at Motorola Global Software Group, Bangalore from December 2005 to March 2009
  • Worked as Principle Engineer at Motorola Inc. at Horsham, PA, USA from July 2004 to December 2005
  • Worked as Sr. Engineer at Motorola Inc. San Jose, CA, USA from February 2000 to July 2004
  • Worked as Wipro Global R&D, Bangalore from July 1997 to February 2000.

Achievements

  • Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for DeitY funded project on “Automated Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-peer Networks” from 2011-2015
  • Co-chair for ICDCIT: Student Symposium 2013 and Industry Symposium 2014
  • “Thomason Memorial Medal” for the Best Engineering Design (project) – 1997

Ph.D. Guidance

  • Arpit Tripathi, Optimisations in 5G Networks, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. In progress since 2020
  • Neha Joshi, Cross-Layer and Cross-Network Optimization for Live Video Streaming in 5G Networks, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. In progress since 2019

Recent Publications

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