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    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Salil Kashyap

Dr. Salil Kashyap

Assistant Professor

Key Research Areas : Wireless communications and signal processing: resource allocation problems in massive MIMO, OTFS, cognitive radio, wireless energy transfer, non-orthogonal multiple access, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces based wireless system design, and enabling wireless communication with UAVs.

Phone No: +91-361-258-3473 (Office) | Email: salilkashyap@iitg.ac.in| Room No: 313

Personal Website   IRINS

Ph.D.

  • Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore (2014)
  • Advisor: Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta

M.Tech.

  • Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (2009)
  • CGPA: 9.91/10--First in the Department

B.Tech.

  • Electronics and Communication Engineering, NERIST (2007)
  • CGPA: 4.96/5--Gold medal for securing the highest CGPA among all graduating students

Assistant Professor
  • Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati (Jul. 2017-Present)

Senior DSP Engineer

  • Member of the signal processing/wireless PHY R&D team at Marvell (2016-2017)
  • Designed physical layer algorithms for next generation WLANs (IEEE 802.11 ax)

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden (2014-2016)
  • Advisors: Prof. Erik G. Larsson and Prof. Emil Björnson

  • EE 533: Wireless Communication (Jan.--May 2023)
  • EE 102: Basic Electronics Laboratory (Mar.--Jun 2023)
  • EE331: Principles of Communication-- (Lecture) (Jul.--Nov. 2022)
  • EE 220: Signals and Systems--(Tutorial) (Jul.--Nov. 2022)
  • EE 533: Wireless Communication (Jan.--May 2022)
  • EE 230: Probability and Random Processes (Tutorial) (Jan.--May 2022)
  • EE 220: Signals and Systems--(Lectures + Tutorial) (Jul.--Nov. 2021)
  • EE 102: Basic Electronics Laboratory (Mar.--Jun 2021)
  • EE 533: Wireless Communication (Jan.--May 2021)
  • EE 230: Probability and Random Processes (Tutorial) (Jan.--May 2021)
  • EE 220: Signals and Systems (Sep.--Nov. 2020)
  • EE 638: Massive MIMO for 5G Communications: Design and Analysis (Jan.--May 2020)
  • EE 102: Basic Electronics Laboratory (Jan.--May 2020)
  • EE 220: Signals and Systems (Jul.-Nov. 2019)
  • EE 331: Communication Systems Laboratory (Jul.--Nov. 2019)
  • EE 668: Massive MIMO for 5G Communications: Design and Analysis (Jan.--May 2019)
  • EE 230: Principles of Communication (Tutorial) (Jan.--May 2019)
  • EE 220: Signals, Systems and Networks (Jul.--Nov. 2018)
  • EE 101: Basic Electronics (Tutorial) (Jul.--Nov. 2018)
  • EE 668: Massive MIMO for 5G Communications: Design and Analysis (Jan.--May 2018)
  • EE 230: Principles of Communication (Tutorial) (Jan.--May 2018)
  • EE 331 Communication Systems Laboratory (Jul.--Nov. 2017)
  • EE 101: Basic Electronics (Tutorial) (Jul.--Nov. 2017)

Journal Publications

1. Aditya Raosaheb Pawar, Salil Kashyap, and Sonali Chouhan, "Error Probability Analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Enabled Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol.Accepted ,pp. (Available on IEEEXplore Early Access) [2023].

2. Chandan Kumar and Salil Kashyap, "

On the Power Transfer Efficiency and Feasibility of Wireless Energy Transfer Using Double IRS

", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol.72 ,pp.6165-6180, [2023].

3. Chandan Kumar, Salil Kashyap, Sarvendranath R. and Supreet Kumar Sharma,, "On the Feasibility of Wireless Energy Transfer Based on Low Complexity Antenna Selection and Passive IRS Beamforming", IEEE Transactions on Communications , vol.70 ,pp.5663-5678, [2022].

4. E. Venkata Pothan and Salil Kashyap, "Massive MIMO Based Underlay Spectrum Access Under Incomplete And/Or Imperfect Channel State Information", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking , vol.8 ,pp. 1482-1496, [2022].

5. Pawar A.R., Kashyap S., Chouhan S., "Impact of Max-Min Power Control, Channel Estimation and User Grouping Strategies on Uplink Massive MIMO-NOMA Systems", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol.70, issue 8 , (DOI - 10.1109/TVT.2021.3093716) ,pp.7858-7869, [2021].

6. Sarangi M.K., Kashyap S., "Impact of Pilot Allocation Strategies on Outage in Wireless Energy Transfer Using Massive Antenna Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , vol.20, issue 2 , (DOI - 10.1109/TWC.2020.3029289) ,pp.942-954, [2021].

7. Kumar C., Kashyap S., "Massive MIMO enabled joint unicast transmission to IoT devices and mobile terminals", IET Communications , vol.14, issue 13 , (DOI - 10.1049/iet-com.2019.1118) ,pp.2048-2059, [2020].

8. Kashyap S., Björnson E., Larsson E.G., "On the Feasibility of Wireless Energy Transfer Using Massive Antenna Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , vol.15, issue 5 , (DOI - 10.1109/TWC.2016.2521739) ,pp.3466-3480, [2016].

9. Kashyap S., Mehta N.B., "Power Gain Estimation and Its Impact on Binary Power Control in Underlay Cognitive Radio", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters , vol.4, issue 2 , (DOI - 10.1109/LWC.2015.2394496) ,pp.193-196, [2015].

10. Kashyap S., Mehta N.B., "Optimal binary power control for underlay CR with different interference constraints and impact of channel estimation errors", IEEE Transactions on Communications , vol.62, issue 11 , (DOI - 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2363179) ,pp.3753-3764, [2014].

11. Kashyap S., Mehta N.B., "SEP-optimal transmit power policy for peak power and interference outage probability constrained underlay cognitive radios", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , vol.12, issue 12 , (DOI - 10.1109/TWC.2013.111013.130615) ,pp.6371-6381, [2013].

12. Kashyap S., Mehta N.B., "Joint antenna selection and frequency-domain scheduling in OFDMA systems with imperfect estimates from dual pilot training scheme", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , vol.12, issue 7 , (DOI - 10.1109/TWC.2013.060313.121742) ,pp.3473-3483, [2013].

13. Mehta N.B., Kashyap S., Molisch A., "Antenna selection in LTE: From motivation to specification", IEEE Communications Magazine , vol.50, issue 10 , (DOI - 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6316788) ,pp.144-150, [2012].

Conference Publications

1. Rathore D., Kashyap S., Rajesh A., "On the Efficacy of Antenna Selection at the Massive Antenna Jammer", SPCOM 2020 - International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications , (DOI - 10.1109/SPCOM50965.2020.9179584) [2020].

2. Sarangi M.K., Kashyap S., "On Outage in Energy Transfer Using Massive Antenna Arrays With Orthogonal and Shared Pilot Signaling", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC , vol.2019-April , (DOI - 10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885433) [2019].

3. Gupta R., Kashyap S., Pothan E.V., "Interference violation probability constrained underlay cognitive massive MIMO network under imperfect channel knowledge", 25th National Conference on Communications, NCC 2019 , (DOI - 10.1109/NCC.2019.8732203) [2019].

4. Kashyap S., Mollen C., Bjornson E., Larsson E.G., "Performance analysis of (TDD) massive MIMO with Kalman channel prediction", ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings , (DOI - 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952818) ,pp.3554-3558, [2017].

5. Kashyap S., Mollen C., Bjornson E., Larsson E.G., "Frequency-domain interpolation of the zero-forcing matrix in massive MIMO-OFDM", IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC , vol.2016-August , (DOI - 10.1109/SPAWC.2016.7536907) [2016].

6. Kashyap S., Bjornson E., Larsson E.G., "On the feasibility of wireless energy transfer using massive antenna arrays in Rician channels", IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC , vol.2015-August , (DOI - 10.1109/SPAWC.2015.7226997) ,pp.46-50, [2015].

7. Kashyap S., Bj??rnson E., Larsson E.G., "Can wireless power transfer benefit from large transmitter arrays?", 2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference, WPTC 2015 , (DOI - 10.1109/WPT.2015.7140132) [2015].

8. Kashyap S., Mehta N.B., "Peak power and interference outage probability constrained optimal transmission policy for underlay cognitive radios", GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference , (DOI - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831375) ,pp.2039-2044, [2013].

9. Kashyap S., Bora P.K., "Spatial averaging based steganalysis scheme to detect antipodal watermarks", 2010 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, SPCOM 2010 , (DOI - 10.1109/SPCOM.2010.5560483) [2010].

10. Rana V., Mishra R., Bora P.K., Kashyap S., "Novel scheme of video steganalysis for detecting antipodal watermarks", IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON , (DOI - 10.1109/TENCON.2008.4766443) [2008].

  • Finalist of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2020: With Arijit Roy and Prof. R. Bhattacharjee
  • Co-author of paper that was adjudged one of the finalists for the best student paper award in National Conf. on Communications (NCC) held at IISc Bangalore, India (2019)
  • Inspire Faculty Fellowship, DST, Govt. of India (2018)
  • Author of paper that was among the most accessed papers in IEEEXplore in Apr. 2015 in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 
  • M.Tech and PhD research fellowship MHRD, Govt. of India (2007-2014)
  • DST and CSIR travel grants to attend GLOBECOM held at Atlanta, USA (2013)
  • Selected to attend and attended the International Research Skills Development Programme at the University of Hong Kong (2012)
  • Department Rank 1 in M.Tech. Programme at IIT Guwahati (2009)
  • Received Gold Medal from the President of India for securing the highest CGPA in the entire graduating class in B.Tech (2007) 

  • System for simultaneous wireless information and energy transfer in a heterogeneous network and method thereof, Arijit Roy, Salil Kashyap and Ratnajit Bhattacharjee, Indian Patent Number: 433737, Granted on Jun. 5, 2023 
  • Receiver having equalization with iterative parallel processing and noise de-whitening mitigation, Sayak Roy, Salil Kashyap, Ankit Sethi and Sudhir Srinivasa, US patent number 10,673,476, Granted on Jun. 2, 2020