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Raghunandan M. Rao

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Raghunandan M. Rao

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering

  • BE: Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore, 2011
  • MTech: IIT Kanpur, 2013
  • MS: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 2016
  • PhD: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 2020

Email: raghunandan.rao -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://raghumrao.github.io/

Office: 13/323C


  • Recent Publications

    1. R. M. Rao, D. R. Emenonye, “Iterative RNDOP-Optimal Anchor Placement for Beyond Convex Hull ToA-based Localization: Performance Bounds and Heuristic Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 7287-7303, 2024.

    2. R. M. Rao, A. V. Padaki, B. L. Ng, Y. Yang, M. Kang, and V. Marojevic, “ToA-based Localization of Far-Away Targets: Equi-DOP Surfaces, Asymptotic Bounds, and Dimension Adaptation,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 11089-11094, 2021.

    3. R. M. Rao, H. S. Dhillon, V. Marojevic and J. H. Reed, “Underlay Radar-Massive MIMO Spectrum Sharing: Modeling Fundamentals and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 7213-7229, 2021.

    4. R. M. Rao, V. Marojevic, and J. H. Reed, “Semi-Blind Post-Equalizer SINR Estimation and Dual CSI Feedback for Radar-Cellular Coexistence,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 9720-9735, 2020. (Impact Factor: 6.1)

    5. B. Shang, L. Liu, R. M. Rao, V. Marojevic, J. H. Reed, “3D Spectrum Sharing for Hybrid D2D and UAV Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5375-5389, 2020.

  • Work Experience

    Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Jul 2025 to present)
    Connectivity Algorithms Software Engineer, Amazon Lab126, Sunnyvale, CA, USA (Jan 2022 - Nov 2024)
    Senior Research Engineer, Samsung Research America, Plano, TX, USA (Oct 2020 – Dec 2021)