CV

Education

• B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2014.
  • Minor degree in Physics.
• M.Res in Engineering, Macquarie University, 2016.
  • Thesis Title: The Minimum Clearing Time Problem in Wireless Networks.
  • Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Hanly and Prof. Philip Whiting.
• PhD in Engineering, Macquarie University, 2021.
  • Thesis Title: Distributed Resource Allocation Algorithms for Wireless Networks.
  • Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Hanly and Prof. Philip Whiting.

Work experience

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2021-Current)
  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Duties included: Full time Research, PhD co-supervision.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Hanly.
• Research Assistant (2014)
  • IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Prasanna Chaporkar.
• Engineering Internship (2013)
  • Qualcomm, Hyderabad, India.
  • Duties: Automating testing of femto cells developed by Qualcomm Flarion Technologies.

Publications

Distributed User Association and Resource Allocation Algorithms for Three Tier HetNets

S. Gopalam, S. V. Hanly and P. Whiting, "Distributed User Association and Resource Allocation Algorithms for Three Tier HetNets," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 7913-7926, Dec. 2020.

Distributed and Local Scheduling Algorithms for mmWave Integrated Access and Backhaul

S. Gopalam, S. V. Hanly and P. Whiting, "Distributed and Local Scheduling Algorithms for mmWave Integrated Access and Backhaul," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1749-1764, Aug. 2022.

Closed Form Approximations for UAV Line-of-Sight Probability in Urban Environments

I. Mohammed, S. Gopalam, I. B. Collings and S. V. Hanly, "Closed Form Approximations for UAV Line-of-Sight Probability in Urban Environments," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 40162-40174, 2023.'

Distributed Resource Allocation and Flow Control Algorithms for mmWave IAB Networks

S. Gopalam, S. V. Hanly and P. Whiting, "Distributed Resource Allocation and Flow Control Algorithms for mmWave IAB Networks," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 3175-3190, Dec. 2023.

Zak-OTFS Implementation via Time and Frequency Windowing

S. Gopalam, I. B. Collings, S. V. Hanly, H. Inaltekin, S. R. B. Pillai and P. Whiting, "Zak-OTFS Implementation via Time and Frequency Windowing," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3366403.

A New Micro-Subcarrier OFDM Based Waveform for Delay Doppler Domain Communication

S. Gopalam, S. B. Pillai, P. Whiting, H. Inaltekin, I. B. Collings and S. V. Hanly, "A New Micro-Subcarrier OFDM-Based Waveform for Delay Doppler Domain Communication," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 57879-57894, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3390682.

Joint Beam Allocation and Scheduling for mmWave Cellular Networks

S. Gopalam, I. B. Collings, S. V. Hanly and H. Inaltekin, "Joint Beam Allocation and Scheduling for mmWave Cellular Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, doi: 10.1109/TIT.2024.3399760.

Optimal Zak-OTFS Receiver and Its Relation to the Radar Matched Filter

S. Gopalam, H. Inaltekin, I. B. Collings and S. V. Hanly, "Optimal Zak-OTFS Receiver and Its Relation to the Radar Matched Filter," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3416467.

Conference Papers and Talks

Greedy Scheme for Optimal Resource Allocation in HetNets with Wireless Backhaul

June 04, 2017

Conference Publication at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2017, Sydney, Australia.

Scheduling in Millimeter-wave Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks

April 18, 2023

Talk at Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH, India.

Scheduling in Millimeter-wave Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks

May 03, 2023

Talk at Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, TG, India.

Slot reservation framework for joint flow control and resource allocation in mmWave IAB networks

June 21, 2023

Technical talk at 2023 Australian Communication Theory Workshop, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Zak-OTFS Implementation using Time and Frequency Windowing.

February 21, 2024

Technical Talk at Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) 2024, San Diego, California, USA.

Short Message Success Rate for LEO Satellite IoT Data Harvesting

June 09, 2024

Conference Publication at IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Minimizing Clearing Time in mmWave Networks with Overlapping Coverage

June 24, 2024

Conference Publication at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2024, Singapore.

Grants/Prizes/Scholarships

• I won the best Early Career Researcher presentation prize at the 2023 Australian Communication Theory Workshop, where I was an invited speaker.
• Recipient of the Australia-India Institute’s AIRS Fellowship in 2023, which funded a research visit to India.
• Recipient of the COVID Recovery Fellowship Scheme in 2021 at Macquarie University.
• My PhD and M.Res studies were fully funded by the iMQRTP scholarship and iRTP scholarship respectively, from Macquarie University.

Past Notable Acheivements

• Ranked 74 in the IIT-JEE 2010, the national entrance examination for IITs.
• Among the 35 Gold medallists that cleared the 2010 Indian National Physics Olympiad (InPhO) and attended the Indian selection camp for the International Physics Olympiad.
• Ranked 7 in the 1st South Indian Mathematical Olympiad in 2007.
• Recipient of the KVPY fellowship in 2009, which is awarded by Indian government to encourage highly motivated students to pursue science.