Rajat Talak

Rajat Talak is a Ph.D. student in the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Science degree from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2013. He was awarded the prestigious Prof. F. M. Mowdawalla medal for his master's thesis. His research inclination is toward modeling, analysis, and design of algorithms for networked systems. His current...See more

Rajat Talak is a Ph.D. student in the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Science degree from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2013. He was awarded the prestigious Prof. F. M. Mowdawalla medal for his master's thesis. His research inclination is toward modeling, analysis, and design of algorithms for networked systems. His current focus has been toward studying age of information and guaranteeing information freshness in wireless networks. He is the recipient of the best paper award at MobiHoc 2018. His other notable work includes developing a new theoretical framework for machine learning and robotic perception. See less