2026 Kannan Ramchandran: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	104	309	299	170	164	584	45737
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	94	247	240	125	118	480	41671

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award “For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of distributed source and storage coding.”

Overview

Kannan Ramchandran is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily across the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, Computer Networks and Communications, Molecular Biology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses a number of specific topics, including:

Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Machine Learning and Algorithms
Machine Learning and ELM
Smart Grid Energy Management
Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques

Recent notable publications by Ramchandran include:

"An Efficient Framework for Clustered Federated Learning," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
"FastSecAgg: Scalable Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Improving Semi-supervised Federated Learning by Reducing the Gradient Diversity of Models," 2021, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
"Epistatic Net allows the sparse spectral regularization of deep neural networks for inferring fitness functions," 2021, Nature Communications
"Neurotoxin: Durable Backdoors in Federated Learning," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent co-authors include:

Avishek Ghosh
Nived Rajaraman
Yaoqing Yang
Michael W. Mahoney
Abishek Sankararaman

Ramchandran's research has been published extensively in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Nature Communications
Management Science

In 2017, Kannan Ramchandran received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award with the citation stating the recognition was "for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of distributed source and storage coding."

Best Publications

Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems

A G Dimakis;P B Godfrey;Yunnan Wu;M J Wainwright

2579
Citations
Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems

A.G. Dimakis;P.B. Godfrey;M.J. Wainwright;K. Ramchandran

2234
Citations
Distributed source coding using syndromes (DISCUS): design and construction

S.S. Pradhan;K. Ramchandran

1760
Citations
Rate-distortion methods for image and video compression

A. Ortega;K. Ramchandran

1181
Citations
Low-complexity image denoising based on statistical modeling of wavelet coefficients

M. Kivanc Mihcak;I. Kozintsev;K. Ramchandran;P. Moulin

1147
Citations
Best wavelet packet bases in a rate-distortion sense

K. Ramchandran;M. Vetterli

1065
Citations
Speeding Up Distributed Machine Learning Using Codes

Kangwook Lee;Maximilian Lam;Ramtin Pedarsani;Dimitris Papailiopoulos

989
Citations
A Survey on Network Codes for Distributed Storage

A G Dimakis;K Ramchandran;Yunnan Wu;Changho Suh

857
Citations
Distributed compression in a dense microsensor network

S.S. Pradhan;J. Kusuma;K. Ramchandran

714
Citations
Multiplexed coded illumination for Fourier Ptychography with an LED array microscope.

Lei Tian;Xiao Li;Kannan Ramchandran;Laura Waller

682
Citations
Space-frequency quantization for wavelet image coding

Zixiang Xiong;K. Ramchandran;M.T. Orchard

651
Citations
Bit allocation for dependent quantization with applications to multiresolution and MPEG video coders

K. Ramchandran;A. Ortega;M. Vetterli

643
Citations
Byzantine-Robust Distributed Learning: Towards Optimal Statistical Rates

Dong Yin;Yudong Chen;Kannan Ramchandran;Peter L. Bartlett

639
Citations
Computationally efficient optimal power allocation algorithm for multicarrier communication systems

B.S. Krongold;K. Ramchandran;D.L. Jones

628
Citations
Computationally efficient optimal power allocation algorithms for multicarrier communication systems

B.S. Krongold;K. Ramchandran;D.L. Jones

545
Citations
Detecting primary receivers for cognitive radio applications

B. Wild;K. Ramchandran

528
Citations
Multiresolution broadcast for digital HDTV using joint source/channel coding

K. Ramchandran;A. Ortega;K.M. Uz;M. Vetterli

507
Citations
On compressing encrypted data

M. Johnson;P. Ishwar;V. Prabhakaran;D. Schonberg

483
Citations
Multiple description source coding using forward error correction codes

R. Puri;K. Ramchandran

467
Citations
Spatially adaptive statistical modeling of wavelet image coefficients and its application to denoising

M. Kivanc Mihcak;I. Kozintsev;K. Ramchandran

458
Citations
Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems

Alexandros G. Dimakis;P. Brighten Godfrey;Martin J. Wainwright;Kannan Ramchandran

59
Citations
A Survey on Network Codes for Distributed Storage In distributed storage systems where reliability is maintained using erasure coding, network codes can be designed to meet specific requirements.

Alexandros G. Dimakis;Kannan Ramchandran;Yunnan Wu;Changho Suh

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nihar B. Shah Carnegie Mellon University

Martin Vetterli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Michael T. Orchard Rice University

Zixiang Xiong Texas A&M University

Prakash Ishwar Boston University

Douglas L. Jones University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Upamanyu Madhow University of California, Santa Barbara

Martin J. Wainwright MIT

P. Vijay Kumar Indian Institute of Science

Salim El Rouayheb Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

External Links

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