About Me

I’m Nitish Vikas Deshpande, third year Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at University of California San Diego.
I am working as a graduate student researcher at UC San Diego under the supervision of Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. I transferred my Ph.D. from NC State ECE to UCSD ECE in Jan 2024 after getting a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from NC State in Dec 2023.
I completed my B.Tech from Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in May 2021.
My research interest is analyzing and designing wireless communication systems, focusing on wideband, large-array, and reconfigurable antenna based MIMO systems. I apply a physically consistent circuit theory approach to model communication systems, bridging the gap between EM theory and information theory.
I completed two summer internships at the Radio Systems Research Group of Nokia Bell Labs. For the summer 2023 internship at Nokia Bell Labs, I received the “Outstanding student research” award.
For the academic year 2023-2024, our team at NC State received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship award for the project “Hybrid beamforming using dynamic metasurface antennas for wideband massive MIMO.”

News and Updates

[Jan 2024] Transferred my PhD from NC State to UCSD and continuing research with Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr.

[March 2023] Conference talk for the paper “Analysis of dense array massive MIMO with practical constraints,” at WSA & SCC 2023 in Braunschweig, Germany.
[Jun 2023- Aug 2023] Summer internship in Radio Systems Reseach group at Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. Received the “Outstanding student research award” for the intern project on “Analog beamforming using parasitic reconfigurable antenna array.”
[Sept 2023] For the academic year 2023-2024, our team at NC State received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship award for the project “Hybrid beamforming using dynamic metasurface antennas for wideband massive MIMO.”
[Dec 2023] Conference talk for the paper titled “Achievable rate of a SISO system under wideband matching network constraints,” at Globecom 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[Dec 2023] Graduated with Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from NC State

[Jun 2022 - Aug 2022] Summer internship in Radio Systems Reseach group at Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. Research project on dense array massive MIMO system modeling using circuit theory
[Nov 2022] Presented a poster on “Nonuniform true time delay precoding in wideband MISO systems” in Asilomar conference on signals, systems, and computers in Pacific Grove, CA.

[Dec 2021] Proficiency Prize for best undergraduate project in Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur.
[Dec 2021] Presented paper titled “Analysis of Statistical CSI‑based Optimized Phase‑Shift IRS‑aided FD mMIMO System” in Globecom 2021 conference.
[Jan 2021] Talk on MATLAB CVX toolbox for solving convex optimization problems organized by PG Academics and Career Council. Video available on YouTube.

[Dec 2020] Presented paper on Spectral Efficiency in Poisson Cluster Based HetNets with Users-Basestations Correlation accepted at Virtual IEEE ANTS 2020. This is the video presentation.
[Nov 2020] Paper on Spectral Efficiency in Poisson Cluster Based HetNets with Users-Basestations Correlation accepted at IEEE ANTS 2020.
[May 2020] Our team secured 6th rank in 1st phase of IEEE ICASSP Signal Processing Cup 2020 Challenge for the problem statement on Unsupervised abnormality detection by using intelligent and heterogeneous autonomous systems.
[March 2020] Hosted a podcast on 5G and Beyond with Soumyadeep Dutta and Suraj Hanchinal.

[Dec 2019] Our team won Silver Medal in 8TH INTER IIT Tech MEET at IIT Roorkee for the problem statement on Psycho-graphic profile capture.
[Dec 2019] Talk on Machine Learning for Signal Processing for winter camp organized by Electronics Club, IIT Kanpur.
[July 2019] Presented poster on Score Following: Audio to Score Alignment for the SURGE 2019 program at IIT Kanpur.

[Dec 2018] Our team won Silver Medal in 7th INTER IIT Tech MEET at IIT Bombay for the problem statement on Television Audience Measurement