Shrinivas Kudekar
Scholar

Shrinivas Kudekar

Google Scholar ID: 7kgEF5MAAAAJ
Qualcomm Research
Information and coding theoryIterative coding theoryWireless communicationsStatistical Physics
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,950
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
37
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
0
 
Publications
2 items
Quantum Precoded Polar Codes
2026
Cited
0
Revelio: A Real-World Screen-Camera Communication System with Visually Imperceptible Data Embedding
2025
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0
Resume
Academic Achievements
  • LDPC code design for 5G New Radio published in IEEE Communications Magazine (March 2018); key features adopted into 5G standards.
  • Proved that Reed-Muller codes achieve Shannon capacity on the binary erasure channel, resolving a long-standing conjecture.
  • Established the 'threshold saturation' principle explaining why spatially coupled codes universally achieve capacity under belief propagation.
  • Holds multiple patents (Patents section listed on website).
  • Published numerous high-impact research papers (Publications section available).
  • Recipient of multiple awards and honors (Awards & Honors section listed).
Research Experience
  • Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Research, Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA.
  • Developed next-generation wireless technologies including turbo equalization for vehicular channels (chip-implemented), cellular-based WiFi enhancement, and advanced channel codes for 5G New Radio.
  • Demonstrated that Reed-Muller codes achieve capacity on the binary erasure channel.
  • Designed a joint error-correction coding (ECC) and crosstalk-avoidance coding (CAC) scheme for on-chip parallel data buses.
  • Pioneered the theory of spatial coupling, introducing the 'threshold saturation' phenomenon; delivered a tutorial at ISIT 2013.
  • Built a mobile indoor positioning system fusing WiFi, inertial, and magnetic sensor data via Bayesian inference and particle filtering, achieving centimeter-level median accuracy.