Vaneet Aggarwal is a researcher and academic in the field of

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. He currently holds the position of Full Professor at Purdue University. He leads the maChine Learning and quANtum computing (CLAN) research labs at Purdue. Aggarwal earned his B.Tech. degree in 2005 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 2007 and 2010, respectively, from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in Princeton, NJ, USA. His Ph.D. dissertation was supervised by Prof.

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. Aggarwal joined Purdue University in January 2015 and is currently a Full Professor. Prior to this, he was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ (2010-2014). He was Adjunct Assistant Professor at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

(EE, 2013-2014), VAJRA Chair Professor at

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(ECE, 2018-2019), Adjunct Faculty at IIIT Delhi (CS, 2022-2023), and Visiting Professor at KAUST, Saudi Arabia (CS, 2022-2023). His work has been recognized with numerous awards and honors. Notably, he was the recipient of Princeton University's prestigious Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship in 2009, which is the highest honor bestowed upon a graduate student at Princeton University. Purdue University awarded him the Most Impactful Faculty Innovator Award in 2021. Dr. Aggarwal's contributions to the academic community have been acknowledged with several prestigious awards, including the 2017 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award for the Best Systems Paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the 2018 IEEE Infocom Workshop Best Paper Award, and the 2021 NeurIPS Workshop Best Paper Award. His work
HADAR: Heat-Assisted Detection and Ranging
has appeared on the cover of NATURE, and has been covered i
NATURE podcast episode
and multiple news. His work on understanding the natural language of DNA with foundation models is mentioned in Axios. He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking and the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the

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and is co-Editor-in-Chief of th
ACM Journal on Transportation Systems
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