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Yogananda Isukapalli


Teaching Professor
Computer Engineering Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
College of Engineering, UC Santa Barbara

Contact
email: yoga@ucsb.edu
Office phone: (805)893-7277
4113 Harold Frank Hall, UCSB
Santa Barbara, California, 93106

About me

Welcome! I joined the ECE faculty, UC Santa Barbara, in Winter 2017. I was a staff scientist in the Wi-Fi division at Broadcom, San Diego, from 2010 to 2017. At Broadcom I was involved with the design and implementation of fast and power efficient 11n/11ac/11ax Wi-Fi chips. As part of the systems team at Broadcom I worked on all phases of Wi-Fi chip production from conceptual design to integration of the chip into customer products. Prior to that I worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography on developing channel models for underwater wireless communications. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego in 2009. I run the Computer Engineering capstone program at UC Santa Barbara, most of my teaching is also centered around courses related to CE capstone projects.

Teaching

Current Courses

Previous Courses

MS Degree Committees

Publications

Conferences

  • T. Hu, Y. Pan, A. Dash, M. Tran, Z. Wu, P. Tokumaru and Y. Isukapalli, "Implementation of A Drone-Based Information Gathering System," Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 23-26, 2023
  • A. Koh, E. Hsieh, R. Chau, S. Sampath, C. Wan and Y. Isukapalli, "Real-Time 3D Visualization: Wirelessly Controlled Led Matrix," Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 23-26, 2023
  • T. H. Oakley, N. M. Hensley and Y. Isukapalli, "Waterborne Autonomous Low-Light Electrostereovideograpy (WALLE) to quantify luminous courtship signaling of aesthetic radiations," Proceedings, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference, Austin, Texas, Jan 3-7, 2023
  • G. Cooper, V. Benenati, B. Long, K. Copeland, T. Ekaireb, S. Kumar, B.S. Manjunath and Y. Isukapalli, "Autonomous System for Sorting Objects at The Edge," Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Glendale, Arizona, Oct 24-27, 2022
  • E. Buckland, A. Chen, K. Dang, T. Zu, P. Tokumaru and Y. Isukapalli, "Relay Connectivity in High Interference Environments Through Deployable Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Wireless Nodes," Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Glendale, Arizona, Oct 24-27, 2022
  • B. Dong, B. Aguillar and Y. Isukapalli, “Design of a low-cost handheld wireless oscilloscope,” Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 25-28, 2021
  • M. Dupree, Y. Zhu and Y. Isukapalli, “Optically-guided multirotor autonomous descent and landing on a moving target,” Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 25-28, 2021
  • G. Cooper, B.S. Manjunath and Y. Isukapalli, "Edge Machine Learning for Face Detection," Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 25-28, 2021
  • W. Jiang, A. Yang and Y. Isukapalli, “Elephant-Human Conflict Mitigation: An Autonomous UAV Approach with Custom Hardware,” Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 25-28, 2021
  • P. Feghali, C. Lin, J. Burd, S. Pillai, T. Cowan, P. Tokumaru and Y. Isukapalli, “Developing affordable unmanned obstacle avoidance with 60 GHz RADAR,” Proceedings, International Telemetering Conference (ITC), Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 25-28, 2021
  • J. Button, A. Chiang, J. Dibachi, P. May, X. Liu, E. Pereyra, A. Jun, Z. Huang, R. Reyes, H. Chowdhury, I. Ben-Yaacov, T. Susko and Y. Isukapalli, “Dynamic Characterization of Magnetic Levitation Engines,” 1st HARP International Conference of Hyperloop Transportation and Related Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, July. 2018
  • Y. Isukapalli and B.D. Rao, “Analyzing the effect of channel estimation errors on the average block error probability of a MISO transmit beamforming system,” IEEE Global Telecom. (Globecom) Conf., New Orleans, LA, pages: 1-6, Dec. 2008
  • Y. Isukapalli and B.D. Rao, “Finite rate feedback for spatially and temporally correlated MISO channels in the presence of estimation errors and feedback delay,” IEEE Globecom Conf., Washington D.C., pages: 2791-2795, Nov. 2007
  • Y. Isukapalli and B.D. Rao, “Performance analysis of finite rate feedback MISO systems in the presence of estimation errors and delay,” IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Sig. Syst. and Comp., CA, Oct. 2007
  • Y. Isukapalli, R. Annavajjala, and B. D. Rao, “Average SEP and BEP analysis of transmit beamforming for MISO systems with imperfect feedback and M-PSK constellation,” IEEE Symp. on Pers. Indoor and Mobile Radio Comm. (PIMRC), Athens, Greece, pages: 1-5, Sep. 2007
  • Y. Isukapalli, J. Zheng and B.D. Rao, “Average SEP loss analysis of transmit beamforming for finite rate feedback MISO systems with QAM constellation,” IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acous. Speech and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), Hawaii, vol. 3, pages: 1520-6149, Apr. 2007
  • Y. Isukapalli and B.D. Rao, “Ergodicity of wireless channels and temporal prediction,” IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Sig. Syst. and Comp., CA, pages: 473-477, Oct. 2006
  • Y. Isukapalli and S.S. Rao “Exploiting the nature of extrinsic information in iterative decoding,” IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Sig. Syst. and Comp., CA, Oct. 2004
  • Y. Isukapalli and S. S. Rao “A new form of MUSIC algorithm for the instantaneous estimation of DOA and spatial spread,” IEEE Elec. Info. Tech. (EIT) conf., Indianapolis, IN, Jun. 2003
  • Y. Isukapalli and S.S. Rao “A heuristic explanation for the improvement in turbo codes performance with number of iterations,” IEEE EIT conf., Indianapolis, IN, Jun. 2003

Journals

  • Y. Isukapalli and B.D. Rao,“Packet error probability of a transmit beamforming system with imperfect feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, issue 4, pages: 2298-2314, Apr. 2010 pdf
  • Y. Isukapalli, H.C. Song and W.S. Hodgkiss “Stochastic channel simulator based on local scattering function,” Journal of Acoustic Society of America, 130 (4), EL200-EL205, 2011 pdf
  • Y. Isukapalli, J. Zheng and B.D. Rao, “Optimum codebook design and average SEP loss analysis of spatially independent and correlated feedback based MISO systems with rectangular QAM constellation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, issue 5, pages: 2017-2024, May 2009 pdf
  • Y. Isukapalli, R. Annavajjala and B.D. Rao, “Performance analysis of transmit beamforming for MISO systems with imperfect feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, issue 1, pages: 222-231, Jan. 2009 pdf
  • Y. Isukapalli and B.D. Rao, “An analytically tractable approximation for the Gaussian Q-function,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, issue 9, pages: 669-671, Sep. 2008 pdf
  • K. K-Delgado and Y. Isukapalli, “Use of the Newton method for blind adaptive equalization based on the constant modulus algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, issue 8, part. 2, pages: 3983-3995, Aug. 2008 pdf

Awards

  • UCSB College of Engineering - Outstanding CE Faculty Award :: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • UCSB Faculty Senate Distinguished Teaching Award :: 2021
  • Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award :: 2020
  • Conference Paper Award :: 2021, 2023