Faculty at School of Engineering

Rakesh Kumar Bansal

Rakesh Kumar Bansal

Professor

School of Engineering


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Universal  Compression, Sequential Detection of a Change in Distribution, Ergodic Theory and Large Deviation Theory- applications , Robustness

  • PhD , MS 1987, 1983 respectively, Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut
  • BTech 1978 , Electrical Engineering , IIT KANPUR

  • Retired as Professor of Electrical Engineering after nearly 35 years of association with Indian institute of Technology, Kanpur . Prior to this, one year at University of Virginia with Electrical Engineering and Mathematics departments as Research Associate / Lecturer.

  • Recipient of Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
  • Recipient of Merit cum Means Scholarship during undergraduate study.
  • Awarded Notional Prize for meritorious performance in second year of undergraduate programme at IIT Kanpur .
  • Completed Undergraduate programme with distinction.

  • Past member of IEEE Information Theory Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Bernoulli Society

  • Ashwin Verma and R K Bansal,“ Sequential Change Detection Based on Universal Compression For Markov sources,” Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , ( ISIT )
  • Jain and R. K. Bansal,“ On Pointwise Redundancy Rate of Bender Wolf ’s Variant of SWLZ Algorithm,” Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ( ITW ) , University of Cambridge, UK, September 11 to 14 , 2016.
  • Jain and R. K. Bansal,“ Point-wise Analysis of Redundancy in SWLZ Algorithm for φ-mixing Sources,” Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop ( ITW ) , Jerusalem, Israel, April 26 - May 1, 2015.
  • Jain and R. K. Bansal,“ Exponential Rates of Convergence for Waiting Times and Generalized AEP,” Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop ( ITW ) , Jerusalem, Israel, April 26- May 1, 2015.
  • Siddharth Jain and RK Bansal ,“On Match Lengths, Zero Entropy, and Large Deviations with Application to Sliding Window Lempel Ziv Algorithm,” Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on , vol.61, no.1, pp.120 - 132, 2015..
  • Sharan, V. and RK Bansal, “Large deviation property of waiting times for Markov and mixing processes,” Information Theory (ISIT), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , vol., no., pp.1096,1100, June 29 2014-July 4 2014.
  • Tony Jacob and R.K. Bansal Almost Sure Optimality of Sliding Window Lempel - Ziv Algorithm and Variants Revisited , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-59, No. 8, pp. 4977-4984, 2013.
  • RK Bansal “On Data Compression , Gambling and the Coin Tossing Experiment, Directions”, Vol 11, No.1, pp 133-141, published by Dean, Research and Development, IIT Kanpur, June 2010.
  • R.K. Bansal, and P. Papantoni-Kazakos, Outlier Resistant Algorithms for Detecting a Change in a Stochastic Process, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-35, No. 3, pp. 521- 535, 1989.
  • R.K. Bansal, and P. Papantoni-Kazakos, An Algorithm for Detecting a Change in a Stochastic Process, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-32, November 2, pp. 227-235, 1986.
  • This paper also appears almost in its entirety in the book by D. Kazakos and P. Papantoni-Kazakos

  • “On Universal Compression , Shannon’s Entropy and Recurrence Times”, December 16, 2015, Workshop on High performance Digital Signal Processing System Design and Implementation, IIT Bhubaneswar.
  • “On Large Deviation Property of Recurrence and Waiting Times”, February 28, 2015, National Conference on Communications, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
  • “Sliding Window Lempel- Ziv AlgorithmPoint-wise Optimality and Extension to Side Information” , December 23, 2009, Electrical Communication Engineering Department, IISc, Bangalore.
  • “ On Universal Compression, Shannon’s Entropy and Recurrence Times ”, January 2010, National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image processing and Graphics, LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur.
  • “ On Universal Compression, Shannon’s Entropy and Recurrence Times”,January 31, 2010, National Institute of Technology , Tiruchirappalli.
  • “On Universal Compression , Shannon’s Entropy and Individual Sequences,” February 11, 2006 in TECHNEX, Students’ Technical Festival held at Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi.
  • “On Data Compression and the Theme of Recurrence,” IETE Sponsored Lecture, IIT Kanpur, March 6, 2005. • “Efficient Representation of Data and Some Compression Algorithms,” Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Trivandram, Kerala, May 21, 2004.
  • “On Coin Tossing, Bits of Information and a Bit of Gambling,” IIT Kanpur, August 22, 2003. • “A Random Walk through Jain Theory of Knowledge and its Implication,” IIT Kanpur, November 9, 2001.
  • “On Probability and Measures of Uncertainty - a Historic Viewpoint,” Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Jhansi, April 15, 1995.
  • “On Robustness in Detection, Estimation and Filtering Problems,” Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 14 1993.
  • “On Detection of a Change in a Stochastic Process,” Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 13, 1993.
  • “On Weak Continuity and Qualitative Robustness,” Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, March 10, 1993.
  • “Robust Algorithms for Detecting a Change in a Stochastic Process,” Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 1990. • “Robust Algorithms for Detecting a Change in a Stochastic Process,” Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, February 1989 (sponsored by IEEE).
  • “Robust Detection of a Change in a Stochastic Process,” Electrical Engineering Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, May 1988.
  • “Robust Algorithms for Detecting a Change in a Stochastic Process,” Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Washington State University, Pullman, July 1988.

  • National Conference on Communications-2008 , IIT Bombay

on Universal Compression , the Entropy Rate and Hypothesis Testing An outline Entropy rate of a source and Shannon- McMillan- Breiman theorem for countable alphabet, Individual sequences- Ziv entropy, Lempel -Ziv complexity, Empirical entropy, Universal Compression , Existence of weakly universal , point-wise universal and strongly universal codes, Lempel-Ziv class of algorithms - Sliding Window algorithm , LZ-78 based on incremental parsing and their variations , asymptotic optimality and a comparative picture , Extension of LZ algorithms to countable alphabet, LZ based universal lossy compression algorithms, The redundancy rates of LZ algorithms, Universal Compression algorithms applied to hypothesis testing . Some open Problems.

  • National conference on Communications , 2005 IIT Kharagpur

Universal Source Coding and Data Compression 23 11th National Conference on Communications, NCC-2005, January 2005, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. The document circulated contains 53 pages including references.

Conference presentations

  1. “Sequential Change Detection using Empirical Distribution and Universal Codes,” 2022 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications , ( ISITA 2022 ) , Tsukuba, Japan, October 17- October 19, 2022 .
  2. ‘Sequential Change Detection Based on Universal Compression For Markov Sources,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , ( ISIT ) , Paris, France, July 7- July 12, 2019.
  3. “Sequential Change Detection Through Universal Compression- An Asymptotic Study,” Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , ( ISIT ) , Vail , Colorado, USA, June 17 -June 22, 2018.
  4. ‘On Optimality and Redundancy of Side Information Version of SWLZ,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , ( ISIT ) , Aachen, Germany, June 25 to June 30 , 2017.
  5. ‘On Pointwise Redundancy Rate of Bender Wolf ’s Variant of SWLZ Algorithm,” 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ( ITW ) , University of Cambridge, UK, September 11 to 14 , 2016.
  6. “On the optimality of Sliding Window Lempel-Ziv algorithm with side information,” Information Theory and Its Applications, 2008. ISITA 2008. International Symposium on 7-10 Dec. 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
  7. “On Error Rate in Hypothesis Testing based on Universal Compression Algorithms,” 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop ( ITW’ 06 ), October 22-26, 2006 , Chengdu, China.
  8. “Weakly Universal LZ-Extended Codes for Countable Alphabet,” 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 4-9, 2005.
  9. “Lossy Universal Coding for Individual Sequences,” IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Oct 20-25, 2002, Bangalore.
  10. “Importance Sampling through Distance Measures for Estimating the Probability of a Rare Event,” National Communications Conference, January 2000, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
  11. “Importance Sampling for the Estimation of Error Probabilities in Hall’s Minimum Probability Ratio Tests,” National Communications Conference, February 1997, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
  12. 12. “Sequential Detection of a Change in Distribution in a Nonparametric Framework,” National Communications Conference, February 1996, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 25
  13. “Detecting a Change in a Binary Markov Process,” NACONECS-89 (National Conference on Circuits and Systems), Nov. 1989, University of Roorkee.
  14. “Robust Sequential or Fixed Sample Discrimination between two Stochastic Processes,” International Symposium on Probability and its Applications, August 1988, Fort Collins, Colorado.
  15. “On Extended Stopping Variables and the Ergodic Theorem,” International Conference on Almost Everywhere Convergence in Probability and Ergodic Theory, June 1988, Columbus, Ohio.
  16. “Robust Algorithms for Detecting a Change in a Stochastic Process with Infinite Memory,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 1988, Princeton University