Adway Girish

Fourth-year Ph.D. candidate, Information Processing Group, EPFL

About

I am Adway, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate with the Information Processing Group (IPG) at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), EPFL, Switzerland. I am advised by the inimitable Emre Telatar. I have also had the immense pleasure of collaborating with Michael Gastpar, Hyeji Kim, Ashok Makkuva and Shlomo Shamai.

From October 2025 to Feburary 2026, I am thankful to be hosted by Gregory Wornell at MIT, a visit supported by the generous EPFL Doc.Mobility grant.

My research interests are primarily in all aspects of information and coding theory. I am also interested in applying these techniques to study compression, communication, and learning. A more detailed research statement (as of November 2024) is available here.

In 2022, I received a B.Tech. with honors in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics from IIT Bombay, where I was fortunate to have worked with Profs. Kumar Appaiah, Vikram Gadre, and Sibi Raj Pillai. I spent the summer of 2021 at Texas Instruments (India) as a Signal Processing intern.

Here are the publications that have resulted from my research, and here are presentations I have given/will soon give. Here is a summary of my academic career, and here is everything else.