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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
23024
World Ranking
1661
National Ranking
58

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
67
Citations
21995
World Ranking
1057
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Vijay K. Bhargava is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas in computer science and molecular biology, with a focus on computer networks and communications as well as genomics and chromatin dynamics.

Their work covers diverse topics including:

  • Age of Information Optimization
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Bhargava has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators such as Duong Tung Nguyen, Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Maxwell W. Libbrecht, Jiaming Cheng, and K. N. R. Surya Vara Prasad.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • "A Downscaled Faster-RCNN Framework for Signal Detection and Time-Frequency Localization in Wideband RF Systems," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • "RSS Localization Under Gaussian Distributed Path Loss Exponent Model," 2020, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • "Resilient Edge Service Placement Under Demand and Node Failure Uncertainties," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • "Learning representations of chromatin contacts using a recurrent neural network identifies genomic drivers of conformation," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "A Bilevel Programming Framework for Joint Edge Resource Management and Pricing," 2022, IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Bhargava has published in various venues, appearing frequently in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

The scientist has contributed a book titled Communication, Networks and Computing published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Bhargava's main fields of study are:

  • Computer Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of focus include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Molecular Biology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence

Honors received by Bhargava include:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2000) - Academy of Science
  • Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

  • A Survey on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Networks: Research Challenges and Future Trends

    Zhiguo Ding;Xianfu Lei;George K. Karagiannidis;Robert Schober

  • Reed-Solomon Codes and Their Applications

    Stephen B. Wicker;Vijay K. Bhargava

  • Green Cellular Networks: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges

    Z. Hasan;H. Boostanimehr;V. K. Bhargava

  • A robust timing and frequency synchronization for OFDM systems

    Hlaing Minn;V.K. Bhargava;K.B. Letaief

  • On timing offset estimation for OFDM systems

    H. Minn;M. Zeng;V.K. Bhargava

  • Optimal and Suboptimal Power Allocation Schemes for OFDM-based Cognitive Radio Systems

    G. Bansal;M.J. Hossain;V.K. Bhargava

  • Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks

    Vijay K. Bhargava;Ekram Hossain

  • An investigation into time-domain approach for OFDM channel estimation

    H. Minn;V.K. Bhargava

  • Secure Transmission in Multicell Massive MIMO Systems

    Jun Zhu;Robert Schober;Vijay K. Bhargava

  • Wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting technologies: a game-theoretic approach to optimal energy management

    D. Niyato;E. Hossain;M.M. Rashid;V.K. Bhargava

  • Large MIMO Systems

    A. Chockalingam;B. Sundar Rajan

  • Digital Communications by Satellite: Modulation, Multiple Access and Coding

    Vijay K. Bhargava;David Haccoun;Roberts Matyas;Peter P. Nuspl

  • Energy Efficiency in Massive MIMO-Based 5G Networks: Opportunities and Challenges

    K. N. R. Surya Vara Prasad;Ekram Hossain;Vijay K. Bhargava

  • Equal-gain diversity receiver performance in wireless channels

    A. Annamalai;C. Tellambura;V.K. Bhargava

  • Secure Cooperative Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio Systems

    P. Kaligineedi;M. Khabbazian;V.K. Bhargava

  • A combined timing and frequency synchronization and channel estimation for OFDM

    Hlaing Minn;V.K. Bhargava;K.B. Letaief

  • Linear Precoding of Data and Artificial Noise in Secure Massive MIMO Systems

    Jun Zhu;Robert Schober;Vijay K. Bhargava

  • Malicious User Detection in a Cognitive Radio Cooperative Sensing System

    P Kaligineedi;M Khabbazian;V K Bhargava

  • Recent advances in cellular wireless communications

    M. Zeng;A. Annamalai;V.K. Bhargava

  • A modified Massey-Omura parallel multiplier for a class of finite fields

    M.A. Hasan;M.Z. Wang;V.K. Bhargava

Frequent Co-Authors

Ekram Hossain
Ekram Hossain University of Manitoba
Robert Schober
Robert Schober University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Chintha Tellambura
Chintha Tellambura University of Alberta
Dong In Kim
Dong In Kim Sungkyunkwan University
Hlaing Minn
Hlaing Minn The University of Texas at Dallas
Md. Jahangir Hossain
Md. Jahangir Hossain University of British Columbia
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Mohamed-Slim Alouini King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
T. Aaron Gulliver
T. Aaron Gulliver University of Victoria
Stephen B. Wicker
Stephen B. Wicker Cornell University
M.A. Hasan
M.A. Hasan University of Waterloo

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