Bio

Premkumar obtained his BE degree (1993-1997) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. He then obtained his MS (1999-2001) and PhD (2005-2010) degrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. After his PhD, he was a (post-doctoral) Research Fellow at the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland during 2010-2012. Since July 2014, he is with the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai, India as an Assistant Professor.

He has about 5.5 years of pre-phd professional experience that spans across the following organizations: Infosys Technologies Limited (1997-1998), Motorola India Electronics (P) Limited (2001-2003), Indian Institute of Science (2003-2005), and Applied Research Group, Satyam Computer Services Limited (2005-2005). During June 2012 to June 2014, he was with the department of Dept. of Information Technology, SSN College of Engineering as an Associate Professor.

During his academic and industrial stints, he worked on the following communication systems: GPRS, 3GPP, WLAN-Bluetooth coexistence, etc. His research interests include Resource Allocation in Communication Networks and Social Networks.