Aveek Dutta

PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013
MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2008
Bachelor of Technology (Hons.), Electronics and Telecommunication, Kalyani University (Institute of Engineering and Management), First Class Distinction, 2002
About
Dr. Aveek Dutta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a co-director of the Mobile Emerging Systems and Application (MESA) Lab at the University at Albany, SUNY.
He comes to UAlbany from his previous position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas' Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.
Research
Research Interests
Dr. Dutta’s research lies at the crossroads of communication theory, networked systems and radio architectures that spans from novel MAC-PHY cross-layer solutions in modern wireless networks to cognitive radio networks.
- Generalizations of Deep Learning in Wireless Communications
- Blockchain for Distributed Sensing
- Interference Cancellation for Passive Spectrum Users
- Architectures for Software Defined Radios
Please visit the MESA Lab for more about his research and other academic activities.
Opportunities for Students
Dr. Dutta is always looking for enthusiastic, self-driven students from a variety of backgrounds (including electric and computer engineering, as well as computer science) who have an interest in wireless communication, signal processing, reconfigurable computing and embedded systems.
His research is highly interdisciplinary and employs concepts taught in various electric and computer engineering and computer science courses, such as:
- Wireless Communications and Networking, Signal Processing
- FPGA, Software Defined Radio and Embedded Systems
- Theory and practical aspects of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Blockchain
- Mathematical foundations in Optimization, Random Processes and Machine Learning
Interested graduate and undergraduate students should review Dr. Dutta's research and publications before getting in contact via email. Current students should also consider enrolling in one of his courses. Prospective students should apply for UAlbany admission to get started.
Grants/Funding
His work is primarily funded by awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including the NSF CAREER and multiple awards under the NSF-SWIFT program, AFRL Visiting Faculty Research Program and NorthEast Microelectronics Commons Hub.
- NSF-CAREER: Generalizing Deep Learning for Wireless Communication (2022-2027)
- NSF-SWIFT: Collaborative Interference Cancellation for Radio Astronomy (2021-2024)
- NSF-SWIFT: SCISRS: Signal Cancellation using Intelligent Surfaces for Radio Astronomy Services (2022-2025)
- NSF-CRI: CHRONOS: A Cloud based Hybrid RF-Optical Network Over Synchronous Links (2018-2023)
Publications
Selected Publications
Z. Zou and A. Dutta, "Learning to Decompose Asymmetric Channel Kernels for Generalized Eigenwave Multiplexing,” in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada, 2024.
T. Asgari and A. Dutta, "Architecture and Benchmark of an Experimental CRAN Platform over CPRI,” in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada, 2024.
M. A. Abdul Careem, Z. Zou, A. Dutta, N. Thawdar, “Unified Characterization and Precoding for Non-Stationary Channels”, in ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2022 [Best Paper Award].
M. A. Abdul Careem, J. Gomez, D. Saha and A. Dutta, “RFEye in the Sky”, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 2566-2580, 1 July 2022.
M. A. Abdul Careem, S. Chakaborty, A. Dutta, D. Saha, G. Hellbourg, “Spectrum Sharing via Collaborative RFI Cancellation for Radio Astronomy”, in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Los Angeles, 2021 [Best Paper Award].
M. A. Abdul Careem, A. Dutta, ”Reputation Based Routing in MANET using Blockchain”, in 2020 12th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, 2020 [Best Paper Award].
M. A. Abdul Careem, A. Dutta, “SenseChain: Blockchain based Reputation System for Distributed Spectrum Enforcement”, in 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Newark, 2019.
Instruction & Advising
Courses
Graduate-level Courses
- Advanced Digital Communications
- Probability and Random Processes
- Internet of Things
Undergraduate-level Courses
- Signals and Systems
- Communication Systems
- Computer Communications Network