Publications

Statistical Inference

• Estimators for Multivariate Information Measures in Generative Probability Spaces
  Arman Rahimzamani, Himanshu Asnani, Pramod Viswanath, Sreeram Kannan, under review, May 2018.

• Mimic and Classify : A meta-algorithm for Conditional Independence Testing
  Rajat Sen, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Himanshu Asnani, Arman Rahimzamani, Sreeram Kannan, under review, May 2018.

• ClusterGAN : Latent Space Clustering in Generative Adversarial Networks
  Sudipto Mukherjee, Himanshu Asnani, Eugene Lin, Sreeram Kannan, under review, May 2018.

Communication Algorithms

• Low-latency Neural Codes
  Yihan Jiang, Himanshu Asnani, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath, in preparation, 2018.

• Successive Refinement with Decoder Cooperation and its Channel Coding Duals
  Himanshu Asnani, Haim Permuter and Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, Issue 9, pp 5511-5533, September 2013.
  A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2012.

• Multiple Access Channel with Partial and Controlled Cribbing Encoders
  Haim Permuter, Himanshu Asnani, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, Issue 4, pp 2252-2266, April 2013.
  Shorter versions appeared in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Interational Symposium on Information Theory, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 2011 and 2010 IEEE 26th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI), Eilat, Israel, November 2010

• Real Time Coding with Limited Lookahead
  Himanshu Asnani, Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, Issue 6, pp 3582-3607, June 2013.
  A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of the 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September, 2011.

• Learning to Optimally Exploit Multi-Channel Diversity in Wireless Systems
  Prasanna Chaporkar, Alexandre Proutiere, and Himanshu Asnani, IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA.

• Scheduling with Limited Information in Wireless Systems
  Prasanna Chaporkar, Alexandre Proutiere, Himanshu Asnani, Abhay Karandikar, in “Proceedings of the tenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing (MobiHoc)”, New Orleans, LA May 2009.
  (BEST PAPER AWARD)

• Social network analysis of the Short Message Service
  Vikrant Tomar, Himanshu Asnani, Abhay Karandikar, Vinay Chander, Swati Agrawal, Prateek Kapadia, “2010 National Conference on Communications (NCC)”, Chennai, India, 29-31 Jan 2010.

Data Compression

• Network Compression: Worst-Case Analysis
  Himanshu Asnani, Ilan Shomorony, A. Salman Avestimehr and Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, Issue 7, pp 3980 - 3995, June 2015.
  A shorter version appeared in in Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Interational Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2012.

• Operational extremality of Gaussianity in network compression, communication, and coding
  Himanshu Asnani, Ilan Shomorony, A. Salman Avestimehr, and Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Sevilla, Spain, September, 2013.

• Worst-Case Source for Distributed Compression with Quadratic Distortion
  Ilan Shomorony, A. Salman Avestimehr, Himanshu Asnani and Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), EPFL, Lausanne, September, 2012.

• QualComp: a new lossy compressor for quality scores based on rate distortion theory
  Idoia Ochoa, Himanshu Asnani, Dinesh Bharadia, Mainak Chowdhury, Tsachy Weissman and Golan Yona, BMC Bioinformatics, 2013, 14:187, June 2013 (software).
  

Shannon Theory

• A Compound Model for Multiple Access with Distributed CSI and Unknown Fading Statistics
  Debarnab Mitra, Himanshu Asnani, Sibi Pillai, under review, May 2018.

• To Feed or Not to Feed Back
  Himanshu Asnani, Haim Permuter, Tsachy Weissman, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, August 2012. (code)
  A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Interational Symposium on Information Theory, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 2011.
  (ISIT STUDENT PAPER AWARD FINALIST)

• Information Embedding on Actions
  Behzad Ahmadi, Himanshu Asnani, Osvaldo Simeone and Haim H. Permuter, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2012.
  A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of 2013 IEEE Interational Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July, 2013.

• Multi-Terminal Source Coding with Action Dependent Side Information
  Yeow-Khiang Chia, Himanshu Asnani, Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, Issue 6, pp 3653-3667, June 2013.
  A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Interational Symposium on Information Theory, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 2011.

• Probing Capacity
  Himanshu Asnani, Haim Permuter, Tsachy Weissman, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, Issue 11, pp 7317-7332, November 2011.
  A shorter version appeared in Proceedings of the 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 29-October 1, 2010.

• Capacity of a POST Channel with and without Feedback
  Himanshu Asnani, Haim Permuter and Tsachy Weissman, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, September 2013.
  A shorter version appeared in, Proceedings of 2013 IEEE Interational Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July, 2013.

Quantum Physics

• Effective mass theory of a two-dimensional quantum dot in the presence of magnetic field
  Himanshu Asnani, Raghu Mahajan, Praveen Pathak, Vijay A. Singh, PRAMANA Volume 73, Number 3, 573-580.

• BenDaniel-Duke Boundary Condition: A Two Dimensional Analysis
  Himanshu Asnani, Biswanath Patel, Prayas, 2 (6), 191-194, Nov.-Dec., 2005.

• A Potpourri of Fermi Problems
  Praveen Pathak, Vijay A. Singh, Himanshu Asnani, Resonance, pg. 58-66 (June 2007).