Official Job Title
Professor
Endowed Chair and Professorships Titles
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Ken Byers Chair in Telecommunications
Technical Interest Group(s)
Biography
Sriram Vishwanath is a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar and Ken Byers Chair in Telecommunications in ECE.
His research is in wireless systems, decentralized infrastructure, and artificial intelligence, and he bridges theory and practice. His research includes multi-antenna and full-duplex wireless, large-scale machine learning, and decentralized platforms for critical infrastructure, manufacturing and automation.
Beyond academia, Vishwanath is both a serial entrepreneur and incubates/accelerates deep tech startups. He also serves as a technical fellow at MITRE Labs. He received his PhD at Stanford University, his MS at Caltech and his BTech at IIT Madras.
Research
- Wireless Networks
- Information and Coding Theory
- AI/ML
- Distributed Systems
Education
- PhD at Stanford University
- MS at Caltech and BTech at IIT Madras.
Distinctions & Awards
- Fellow, IEEE
- Senior Member, NAI
Publications
- Information Theory: S. Vishwanath, N. Jindal and A. Goldsmith, "Duality, achievable rates, and sum-rate capacity of Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2003.
- Coding Theory: A. S. Rawat, O. O. Koyluoglu, N. Silberstein and S. Vishwanath, "Optimal Locally Repairable and Secure Codes for Distributed Storage Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2014.
- AI/ML: Philippe Hansen-Estruch et al. "Learnings from Scaling Visual Tokenizers for Reconstruction and Generation", In ICML, 2025.
- Distributed Systems: Haoxiang Yu et al, "iDOL: Incentivized Decentralized Opportunistic Learning", in MASS, 2024.