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 Prof. Emre Telatar. I have had the immense pleasure of collaborating with Profs. Michael Gastpar, Hyeji Kim, Ashok Makkuva and Shlomo Shamai. I also spent 5 months starting October 2025 hosted by Prof. Gregory Wornell at MIT, 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. I greatly enjoy preparing and giving talks about my research. Here is a summary of my academic career, and here is everything else.