Ayon Chakraborty (অয়ন চক্রবর্তী)

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Madras

Email: ayon@cse.iitm.ac.in
Office Phone: (044) 2257 4390

Research Group: Sensing and Networked Systems Engineering Group (SeNSE)
Interested in working with us? We are looking for highly motivated full-time M.S. and Ph.D. candidates interested in ML-driven multimodal sensing for mobile computing applications and hardware acceleration/TinyML techniques for building intelligent and energy-efficient sensing platforms.

About

I am broadly interested in system-level design of future intelligent wireless systems and sensing technologies, spanning both algorithm design as well as system prototyping.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook (advisor: Samir R. Das). Further, I worked as a researcher at the Mobile Communications and Networking Division at NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ for three years. Earlier, I received a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University. I completed my schooling from South Point (High) School. I was born and brought up in the beautiful city of Kolkata (Tollygunj).

Teaching

Currently offered course: CS6651

CS2300 course page

Foundations of Computer Systems Design

UG Core • Offered in 2022, 2023

The class includes a laboratory component. I also offer a slightly simplified version through the BS Data Science Program as an elective in the Computer Systems bucket.

Offerings 2 Avg. Enrollment 102 Avg. TCF 0.83

CS3205 course page

Introduction to Computer Networks

UG Elective • Offered in 2022, 2024, 2025

I also offer a slightly simplified version through the BS Data Science Program as an elective in the Computer Systems bucket.

Offerings 3 Avg. Enrollment 107 Avg. TCF 0.84

CS6120 course page

Wireless Communication and Networking

PG Elective • Offered in 2025

This course is also offered as an elective for the CSE Web M.Tech program in Information Security.

Offerings 1 Avg. Enrollment 24 Avg. TCF 0.90

CS6650 course page

Smart Sensing for Internet of Things

PG Elective • Offered in 2021, 2022, 2023

This course is also offered as an elective for the CSE Web M.Tech program in Information Security.

Offerings 3 Avg. Enrollment 52 Avg. TCF 0.91

CS6651 course page

Recent Topics in IoT

PG Elective • Offered in Holi'26

Offerings 1 Avg. Enrollment TBD Avg. TCF TBD

TCCS1100 course page

Introduction to Programming

UG Core • Offered in Summer 2021, 2024

The class also includes a laboratory component.

Offerings 2 Avg. Enrollment 24 Avg. TCF 0.81

Holi semester is held between January and May, while Diwali semester is held between August and December. Instead of naming semesters after seasons in the United States (Spring, Fall - hey, Chennai doesn't even have winter), I prefer naming them after two large Indian festivals held during the respective semesters. Yes, India is a "land of festivals"!

STC 2022 course page

Location Tracking for Internet of Things

AICTE QIP Short Term Course • 2022

Recorded lectures are available in the linked course page.

Selected Publication

Academic Services

Conference (as TPC Member)

ACM MobiCom (2026)
IEEE PerCom (2026)
IEEE INFOCOM (2026, 2025, 2024)
COMSNETS (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
ACM CoNEXT (2025, 2024)
ICDCN (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
IEEE ICCCN (2022)
ACM COMPASS (2021, 2022)
IEEE ICDCS (2018, 2019, 2021)

Journals (* most regularly)

Editor Computer Networks (Elsevier)
Editorial Board Member Ad-Hoc Networks (Elsevier)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing *
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking *
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
IEEE Communications Magazine