Arjun Muralidharan

Graduate Student Researcher
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
Email: arjunm[at]ece[dot]ucsb[dot]edu

Hi there. I am a PhD candidate working with Dr. Yasamin Mostofi at the ECE department of the University of California Santa Barbara.

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Recent News

Awarded ECE Dissertation Fellowship by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB for Spring 2018.
Together with Dr. Yorai Wardi and Dr. Yasamin Mostofi, we had organized a full day workshop on Communication-Aware Control and Robotics at the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

Education

B.Tech - ECE; Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati 2012
M.S - ECE; University of California Santa Barbara 2014
PhD - ECE; University of California Santa Barbara 2014-Present

Research Interests

My current research is on path planning for connectivity and communication in robotic networks.

Other areas of interest are: Multi-agent systems, Game theory, Information theory, Wireless Communication

Publications

Journal Publications

A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "Path Planning for Minimizing the Expected Cost until Success," submitted.[Arxiv]
A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "Statistics of the Distance Traveled until Connectivity for Unmanned Vehicles," submitted.[Arxiv]
A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "Energy Optimal Distributed Beamforming using Unmanned Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2017.[PDF]
S. Depatla, A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "Occupancy Estimation using only WiFi Power Measurements," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special issue on Location-Awareness for Radios and Networks, volume 33, issue 7, July 2015.[PDF]

Conference Publications

A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "Path Planning for a Connectivity Seeking Robot," IEEE Global Communications Conference Workhsops, 2017.[PDF]
A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "First Passage Distance to Connectivity for Mobile Robots," invited paper, American Control Conference (ACC), 2017.[PDF]
A. Muralidharan and Y. Mostofi, "Distributed Beamforming using Mobile Robots," invited paper, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2016.[PDF]
A. Muralidharan, Y. Yan and Y. Mostofi, "Binary Log-Linear Learning with Stochastic Communication Links," invited paper, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2015.[PDF]

Patents

"System and method of occupancy estimation utilizing transmitted signals." U.S. Patent Application No. 15/087,554.