# Praneeth Kumar VippathallaPhD
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### Biography
Dr. Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Information Theory with the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His current work focuses on the lossy compression of spatial networks.
### Research Interests
Praneeth's research interests include information theory and its applications to graph compression.
### Research Groups
[Information and Network Science Lab](https://eng.ox.ac.uk/information-and-network-science-lab/)
### Related Academics
[Prof. Justin P. Coon](https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/justin-coon/)
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