Sravan Ankireddy

I am a Ph.D candidate in the department of ECE at the University of Texas at Austin, advised by Hyeji Kim . I am broadly interested in problems at the intersection of Deep Learning and Information Theory. My current research focuses on using vision and language foundation model priors to build ultra-low rate image compression schemes. Additionally, I am also interested deep learning for tabular datasets and generative models for synthetic datasets.

Previously, I also worked on deep learning based channel coding schemes for PHY layer communication.

I also closely collaborate with Pramod Viswanath (Princeton), Krishna Narayanan (TAMU), Sewoong Oh (UW Seattle), Sandeep Chinchali (UT Austin).

My goal is to combine advances from multiple fields to develop low-complex solutions at the intersection of theory and systems.

In the past, I spent two wonderful years as a Research Engineer at Qualcomm working in the Physical Layer Modelling team in Bangalore, India. Previously, I graduated with Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2019. I have been extremely fortunate to have worked with Dr. Andrew Thangaraj and Dr. Radha Krishna Ganti for my Master’s Thesis on efficient encoding and decoding of Polar Codes.

In my spare time I enjoy reading books, watching documentaries, and hiking.

news

May 13, 2024 Joined Apple as Machine Learning Intern.
May 09, 2024 Formed my Ph.D. committee and advanced to candidacy!
May 01, 2024 DeepPolar accepted to ICML 2024.
Apr 16, 2024 New Preprint! LightCode available in arXiv.
Apr 09, 2024 Nested Construction of Polar Codes via Transformers accepted to ISIT 2024.

selected publications

  1. ICML
    DeepPolar.pdf
    DeepPolar: Inventing Nonlinear Large-Kernel Polar Codes via Deep Learning
    Ashwin Hebbar*, Sravan Ankireddy*, Hyeji Kim, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , Jul 2024
  2. NeurIPS
    NDPCA.pdf
    Task-Aware Distributed Source Coding Under Dynamic Bandwidth
    Po-han Li*, Sravan Ankireddy*, Ruihan Philip Zhao, and 5 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2023
  3. ISIT
    NestedPolar.png
    Nested Construction of Polar Codes via Transformers
    Sravan Ankireddy, S. Ashwin Hebbar, Heping Wan, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) , Jul 2024
  4. ISIT
    TinyTurbo.pdf
    TinyTurbo: Efficient Turbo Decoders on Edge
    S. Ashwin Hebbar, Rajesh K Mishra, Sravan Ankireddy, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) , Jul 2022
  5. JSAC
    LightCode.pdf
    LightCode: Light Analytical and Neural Codes for Channels with Feedback
    Sravan Ankireddy, Krishna Narayanan, and Hyeji Kim
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Mar 2024