About me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. I am advised by Prof. Anand D. Sarwate. I also work with Prof. Roy Yates and Prof. Narayan Mandayam. I completed my Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from RV College of Engineering in 2019.

My research is deeply rooted in stochastic network optimization, applied probability, and queueing theory. I design state-aware scheduling policies and develop mathematical frameworks to resolve the fundamental trade-offs between information freshness, system constraints, and privacy.

Core Focus Areas

• Timeliness vs. Privacy: Mitigating worst-case information leakage (Maximal Leakage) while maintaining real-time status updates (Age of Information) in discrete-time communication networks.
• Freshness vs. System Stability: Formulating average-cost Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to balance data freshness against queue stability under heavy traffic.
• MEC Offloading & Processing Cost: Characterizing optimal scheduling structures to minimize data staleness in mobile edge cloud architectures under strict service-cost constraints.

Email: nitya.s@rutgers.edu