Prakash Ishwar

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

• 2005 NSF CAREER Award
• 2007 BU ENG Dean’s Catalyst Award
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Elected Member, IEEE IVMSP Technical Committee

Classes Taught

• EC 416 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
• EC 500 Special Topics in ECE
• EC 515 Digital Communication
• EC 516 Digital Signal Processing
• EC 517 Introduction to Information Theory

Research Interests

• Signal, Image, and Video Processing (statistical, multiresolution, distributed)
• Information Theory and Communications (network coding, computation, security)
• Statistical Learning Theory

Selected Publications

• N. Ma and P. Ishwar, “Distributed Source Coding for Interactive Function Computation,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, submitted November 2008, under review, published on arxiv.org (arXiv:0801.0756).
• Z. Li, P. Ishwar, and J. Konrad, “Video Condensation by Ribbon Carving,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, accepted for publication February 2009. Available: http://iss.bu.edu/pi/Selected_Publications/vidcon09.pdf
• Y. Wang, P. Ishwar, and V. Saligrama, “One-bit Distributed Sensing and Coding for Field Estimation in Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 9, pages 4433-4445, September 2008.
• P. Ishwar, R. Puri, K. Ramchandran, and S. S. Pradhan, “On Rate-constrained Distributed Estimation in Unreliable Sensor Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC): Special issue on SELF-ORGANIZING DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE SENSOR NETWORKS, vol. 23, no. 4, pages 765-775, April 2005.
• M. Johnson, P. Ishwar, V. M. Prabhakaran, D. Schonberg, and K. Ramchandran, “On Compressing Encrypted Data,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: Special supplement on SECURE MEDIA, vol. 52, no. 10, part 2, pp. 2992-3006, Oct. 2004.
• P. Ishwar and P. Moulin, “On the Existence and Characterization of the Maxent Distribution under General Moment Inequality Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 3322-3333, September 2005.