Soummya Kar

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Email: soummyak AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu



I am a PhD student in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, since Fall 2005. My doctoral advisor is Prof. Jose' Moura.

Prior to this, I completed my Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) on May 2005.

My hometown in India is Calcutta (now Kolkata.)


Publications (in reverse chronological order) [1] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Distributed Consensus Algorithms in Sensor Networks: Quantized Data," Submitted to the IEEE Transactions.

[2] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Distributed Consensus Algorithms in Sensor Networks: Link Failures and Channel Noise," Submitted to the IEEE Transactions.

[3] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Distributed Average Consensus in Sensor Networks with Quantized inter-Sensor Communication," To be presented at The 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

[4] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Distributed Consensus Algorithms in Sensor Networks with Communication Channel Noise and Random Link Failures," In proceedings of the 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.

[5] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Consensus Based Detection in Sensor Networks: Topology Optimization Under Practical Constraints," First International Workshop on Information Theory in Sensor Networks (WITS), June 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

[6] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Sensor Networks with Random Links: Topology Design for Distributed Consensus," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, April, 2007.

[7] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Distributed average consensus in sensor networks with random link failures," The 32nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.

[8] S. Kar and J.M.F Moura, "Topology for global average consensus," Fortieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (to appear in proceedings), Oct. 2006, Pacific Grove, CA.
(A Winner in the Best Student Paper Contest), see ECE news

[9] S. Kar and J.M.F. Moura, "Ramanujan topologies for decision making in sensor networks," Forty-Fourth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing (to appear in proceedings), Sept. 2006, Monticello, IL.
(Invited Paper)

[10] S. Kar, S.A. Aldosari, and J.M.F. Moura, "Topology for Distributed Inference on Graphs," Submitted for journal publication, June 2006, 30 pages.



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