Error Correcting Coding
Talk Overview:
Error-correcting codes enable reliable communication and storage in the presence of noise. They explain why text messages arrive intact, why streaming video can tolerate brief disruptions, and why QR codes often remain readable even when partially damaged. This talk offers an introduction to the central idea: by adding carefully designed redundancy to a message, we can detect when errors occur and, in many cases, reconstruct the original information.
Biography:
Dr. Venkata Gandikota (GV) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University and an affiliate faculty member of EnCore: the Institute for Emerging CORE Methods in Data Science. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr.Gandikota’s research lies at the intersection of coding theory, point lattices, and foundational problems in machine learning.
Prior to joining Syracuse University, Dr. Gandikota held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Johns Hopkins University. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University and earned dual undergraduate degrees in Mathematics (M.Sc.) and Computer Science (B.E.) from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Goa, India.
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