Associate Professor (ECE)

• Primary Appointment Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Education PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
• Additional Affiliations Signal Transformation and Information Representation Group
• Honors and Awards 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
  2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Best Paper Award
  2013 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Grand Prize
  2007 NSF CAREER Award
  2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award
  IEEE Fellow
  IEEE SPS Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee Vice Chair
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Steering Committee
  Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing Editorial Board
  Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery Scientific Advisory Board and Programme Committee Member
  SPIE Wavelets and Sparsity conference series co-chair
• Classes Taught EC 516 Digital Signal Processing
• Areas of Interest Computational imaging
  Information representation
  Statistical signal processing
  Quantization
  Human decision making and perception