I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Prior to joining academia, I served as a Chief Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, where I was part of the Advanced Modem team developing PHY-layer algorithms for beyond 5G communication systems. My industry experience also includes roles at Qualcomm India Private Limited and Lekha Wireless Solutions, Bangalore, where I primarily worked on 4G and 5G modem systems.

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of ECE at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where I worked under the guidance of Prof. B. Sundar Rajan. My research was partly funded by the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship awarded to me in 2020. I also hold a Master's degree in Telecommunication from the Dept. of ECE, IISc, where I graduated as the gold medalist.

News

  • Papers on Function Correcting Codes with BTech students Swaraj and Shiven have been accepted at IEEE ISIT 2026. Congratulations to Swaraj and Shiven on their first paper acceptance.
  • NCC 2026 was successfully conducted at IIT Hyderabad. Pictures here.
  • New MTech students Sumit and Bhuvana have joined the team. Welcome, Sumit and Bhuvana.
  • Work on Functional Error Correction for Neural Networks by BTech students Dinesh, Gagan, and Abhinav won fifth place out of 751 submissions at Rescon 2026, the annual research conclave at IIT Bombay. Congratulations to Dinesh, Gagan, and Abhinav.
  • Work on Expressiveness of Locally Binary Functions by BTech students Shiven and Abhinav won fourth place out of 751 submissions at Rescon 2026, the annual research conclave at IIT Bombay. Congratulations to Shiven and Abhinav.
  • MTech student Vaishnavi Anekar has been placed at Qualcomm. Congratulations, Vaishnavi.
  • Rahul has joined the team as a new PhD student. Welcome, Rahul.

Publications

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In Journals

  1. D. P. Singh, Anjana A. Mahesh, and B. S. Rajan, "Coded Caching in Combinatorial Multi-Access Networks with Private Caches," Computer Networks and Communications, Wiley, (To appear), 2026.
  2. Anjana A. Mahesh, C. Rajput, B. Rupa, and B. S. Rajan "Average Probability or Error for Single Uniprior Index Coding over Binary-Input Continuous-Output Channels", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.70, No.9, pp.6297-6315, Sept. 2024.
  3. N. Saxena, Anjana A. Mahesh, and B. S. Rajan "An Optimal Two-Step Decoding for PSK-Modulated Noisy Index Coding," IEEE Transactions on Communications , Vol.72, No.10, pp.6102-6115, Oct. 2024.
  4. Anjana A. Mahesh, A. Chhetri, and B. S. Rajan "Role of Index Codes in Noisy Broadcasting with Side Information and Index Coded QAM for Prioritized Receivers", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol.71, No. 7, pp. 3889-3904, July 2023.
  5. Sreelakshmi P., J. Pachat, Anjana A. Mahesh, Deepthi P.P., and B. S. Rajan, "Index Coded-NOMA in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.71, No.9, pp. 10073-10087, September 2022.
  6. J. Pachat, Anjana A. Mahesh, Deepthi P.P., and B. S. Rajan, "Embedded Index Coding with Consecutive Side Information in Vehicle to Vehicle Communication", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.71, No.8, pp. 9113-9118, August 2022.
  7. Anjana A. Mahesh, N. S. Karat, and B. S. Rajan, "An Optimal Error Correction Scheme for the Shuffle Phase of A MapReduce Distributed Computing System", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.25, No.12, pp. 3765-3769, December 2021.
  8. J. Pachat, N. S. Karat, Anjana A. Mahesh, Deepthi P.P., and B. S. Rajan, "Index Coded PSK Modulation in Vehicle to Vehicle Communication", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.70, No.5, pp. 4753-4766, May 2021.

In Conferences

  1. Swaraj Sharma Durgi, Anjana A. Mahesh, A. Kumari, R. Pandey and B. S. Rajan, “Function-Correcting Codes with Optimal Data Protection for Hamming Code Membership, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE ISIT-26, Guangzhou, China, June 28 - July 03, 2026.
  2. R. Pandey, Shiven Bajpai, Anjana A. Mahesh, and B. S. Rajan, “Function-Correcting Codes for Maximally-Unbalanced Boolean Functions," to appear in Proceedings of IEEE ISIT-26, Guangzhou, China, June 28 - July 03, 2026.
  3. D. P. Singh, Anjana A. Mahesh, and B. S. Rajan, “Coded Caching for Combinatorial Multi-Access Hotplug Networks from t-Designs," to appear in Proceedings of IEEE ISIT-26, Guangzhou, China, June 28 - July 03, 2026.
  4. D. P. Singh, Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan, “Cyclic Wrap-around Multi-Access Coded Caching with Private Caches," Proceedings of IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 9-12 January 2026.
  5. D. P. Singh, Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan, “Combinatorial Multi-Access Coded Caching with Private Caches," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2025), Milan, Italy, 24-27 March 2025.
  6. Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan, “Bandwidth-BER trade-off with Multi-symbol M-PSK for Index Coding with Prioritized Receivers," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2024), Dubai, UAE, April 21-24, 2024.
  7. K. Sailahari, Anjana A. Mahesh, C. Rajput and B. S. Rajan, “Performance of Maddah-Ali-Niesen Scheme for Multi-Access Coded Caching Scheme over Noisy Channels,” Proceedings of IEEE 34th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Toronto, Canada, 5-8 September 2023.
  8. Anjana A. Mahesh, C. Rajput, B. Rupa, and B. S. Rajan, “Average Probability of Error for Single Uniprior Index Coding over Rayleigh Fading Channel,” Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2023), Saint-Malo, France, April 23-28, 2023.
  9. Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan, “Minrank of Embedded Index Coding Problems and its Relation to Connectedness of a Bipartite Graph” Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2022), Mumbai, India, Nov. 2022.
  10. Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan “Space Time Codes in Multi-Antenna Coded Caching Systems” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2022), Espoo, Finland, June 26 - July 1, 2022.
  11. Sreelakshmi P., J. Pachat, Anjana A. Mahesh, Deepthi P.P., and B. S. Rajan. "Index Coded-NOMA in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Spring, Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 June 2022.
  12. Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan, “A Coded Caching Scheme with Linear Sub-packetization and its Application to Multi-Access Coded Caching,” Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, (ITW), April 11-15, 2021, Riva del Garda, Italy
  13. J. Pachat, N. S. Karat, Anjana A. Mahesh, Deepthi P.P. and B. S. Rajan, "Index Coded PSK Modulation in Vehicle to Vehicle Communication," Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference,(2021-Spring), April 2021, Helsinki, Finland.
  14. Anjana A. Mahesh, N. S. Karat and B. S. Rajan, “Min-rank of Embedded Index Coding Problems,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, (ISIT 2020), LA, USA, June 21-26, 2020, pp.1729-1734.
  15. Anjana A. Mahesh, T. S. Malladi and B. S. Rajan, “Two Private Secure Distributed Coded Computation Schemes Using Extension Fields,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC 2020), Dublin, Ireland, June 07-11, 2020.
  16. Anjana A. Mahesh and B. S. Rajan, “Index Coded PSK Modulation,” Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, (WCNC 2016), Doha, Qatar, 03-06 April 2016, pp. 1890-1896

Courses

  • EE5770 Codes and Waveforms For Next Generation Communication Systems (Jan-Apr 2026)
  • AI1110 Probability and Random Variables (Jan-Apr 2026, Jan-Apr 2025)
  • EE2080 Random Processes (Aug-Nov 2025)
  • EE1206/EE3900 Linear Systems and Signal Processing (Aug-Nov 2025)

Research group

Ph. D

  • Rahul Kumar Ahirwar (Jul 2025 - Present)

M Tech

  • Sumit Goswami (Jan 2026 - Present)
  • Vaishnavi Anekar (May 2025 - Present)

B Tech

  • S A Aravind Eswar (EE24) (Oct 2025 - Present)
  • Adityawardhan Yadava (ES23) (Aug 2025 - Present)
  • T. Dinesh Reddy (CS24) (Aug 2025 - Present)
  • D. Swaraj Sharma (EE24) (July 2025 - Jan 2025)
  • B. S. S. Abhinav Reddy (CS24) (July 2025 - Present)
  • Shiven Bajpai (AI24) (June 2025 - July 2025)
  • Gagan Chiruvella (CS24) (May 2025 - Present)

Intern

  • Anupriya Kumari (SURE Intern) NIT Patna (May 2025 -July 2025)
At this time, I am only able to consider internship applications from students at IIT Hyderabad.
Please note that due to the high volume of emails I receive, I may not be able to respond to all internship inquiries.

Professional Service

  • Publicity co-chair NCC 2026
  • TPC member COMSNETS 2026
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Letters
  • Reviewer: IEEE ISIT, ITW