Hello, welcome to my webpage. My name is Saurabh Tavildar. I am currently working with Qualcomm Flarion Technlogies in New Jersey. I completed my PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2006. Before this, I completed my undergrad from IIT Bombay in Electrical Engineering in 2001. I was born in Pune/India in the summer of 1980.


In my PhD, I worked on two information theoretic problems: MIMO channel coding and distributed source coding. You can have a look at my publications to know more.

A. B. Wagner, S. Tavildar, and P. Viswanath,
The Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Terminal Source-Coding Problem
Submitted to IEEE Trans on Info Theory, Feb 2006 (arXiv:cs.IT/0510095)
S. Tavildar and P. Viswanath
Approximately Universal Codes Over Slow Fading Channels
IEEE Trans on Info Theory, July 2006, Volume 52, Issue 7, Pages: 3233- 3258

I ran the Lasalle bank Chicago marathon, 2004 in 3hr:49mins.
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