Adway Patra

I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. I completed my Bachelors in Telecommunications from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and Masters in Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Currently I am working under the guidance of Prof. Alexander Barg on the areas of classical and quantum coding theory, information theory and networks. Previously I have been associated with TCG Digital Solutions as a Software Development Analyst and PwC India as a Consultant. My detailed CV can be found here.

Interests

My research interests broadly lie in the fields of Classical and Quantum Information Theory and Error Correcting Codes. More specifically I have been studying problems related to distributed storage, private information retrieval, distributed function computation, quantum information thoery and quantum error correction.

In my spare time, you can find a guitar in my hand. I also enjoy reading a good crime thriller, go on hiking in the mountains or cook something spicy in the kitchen. Occasionally I bother the locals with my amateur street photography skills.

Education

Experience

Research

Articles and Preprints

• "Targeted Clifford Logical Gates for Hypergraph Product Codes", A Patra, A Barg, submitted to Quantum, arXiv:2411.17050
• "Generalized Regenerating Codes and Node Repair on Graphs", A Patra, A Barg, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, arXiv:2405.11714
• "More Results for Regenerating Codes on Graphs", A Patra, A Barg, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2024
• "Node Repair for Adversarial Graphical Networks", A Patra, A Barg, 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2284-2289, July 2023
• "Interior point regenerating codes on graphs", A Patra, A Barg, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1560-1565 July 2022
• "Node repair on connected graphs", A Patra, A Barg, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, doi: 10.1109/TIT.2022.3145824, May 2022
• "Regenerating codes on graphs", A Patra, A Barg, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2197-2202 July 2021
• "Node repair on connected graphs, part II", A Patra, A Barg, arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00797
• "On the PIR capacity of MSR codes", A Patra, N Kashyap arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03809
• "Some problems in Private Information Retrieval", Masters Thesis Report
• "Design and implementation of floating point multiplier In FPGA system", Bachelors Project

Talks

• Talk on More Results for Regenerating Codes on Graphs, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece Slides
• Talk on Node Repair for Adversarial Graphical Networks, 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Taipei City, Taiwan Slides
• Talk on Interior point regenerating codes on graphs, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Espoo, Finland Slides
• Talk on Node repair for connected graphs, 2022 Joint Mathematical Meetings, Virtual Slides
• Talk on Regenerating codes on graphs, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, Australia Slides
• Talk on Generalizations of the Blahut-Arimoto Algorithm, Course Project for Convex Optimization, Fall 2020, University of Maryland College Park Report
• Talk on Quantum LDPC Codes, Course Project for Advanced Topics in Coding Theory, Fall 2020, University of Maryland College Park Slides
• Talk on Information Flow on Trees, Course Project for Graduate Colloquium Series, Spring 2021, University of Maryland College Park Slides Report
• Talk on Local Differential Privacy, Course Project for Information Theoretic Methods in Learning, Spring 2021, University of Maryland College Park Slides Report
• Talk on Staircase Private Information Retrieval, Course Project for Advanced Coding Theory, Fall 2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Academic Contributions

• Graduate Writing Fellow at the Center for Writing and Oral Communication, University of Maryland College Park Website
• Organizer for the bi-annual Communication, Control and Signal Processing Seminar Series, University of Maryland College Park Website
• Reviewed manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, SpringerOpen
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course Random Processes for Communication and Control, Fall 2020, University of Maryland College Park
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course Probability Theory, Spring 2021, University of Maryland College Park

Skills

• Eclipse IDE 2021
• Qiskit 1.3
• MATLAB R2020b
• TeXstudio 3.1.2
• Microsoft Office 365
• Github 3.2.0