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Faculty in Signals and Systems
Abeer Alwan,
Professor and Area Director
Ph.D, MIT, 1992
Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech sounds with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine and coding, hearing aid design, digital signal processing.
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2003
Office: 66-147G Engr. IV, Phone 310.206.2231,
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A.V. Balakrishnan,
Professor
Ph.D, University of Southern California, 1954
Laser beam distortion in atmospheric turbulence, control design for smart structures, and flight systems applications of adaptive control, nonlinear aeroelasticity, and wind power.
Life Fellow, IEEE, 1996
Office: 56-147G Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2180,
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Paganiotis Christofides,
Professor
Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1996
Process control, dynamics and optimization, computational modeling and simulation of complex systems, and mathematics with the central objective of development of novel methods for the systematic and rigorous solution of complex process control and systems.
Office: 5532F Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.794.1015,
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Babak Daneshrad,
Professor
Ph.D, UCLA, 1993
Digital VLSI circuits: wireless communication systems, high-performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications.
Office: 6731G Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.7792,
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Mark Hansen,
Associate Professor
Ph.D, MIT, 1992
Statistical analysis of large complex data. Statistical methods for embedded sensing. Streaming data analysis. Text mining and information retrieval. Information theory and its applications to statistics.
Fellow, SPIE, 1996
Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic Engineers, 1996
Office: 8591 Math Sciences, Phone 310.206.8375,
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Rajeev Jain,
Professor and Vice Chair
Ph.D, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1985
Embedded hardware/software design for signal processing systems-on-a-chip; CAD tools for design of high-performance signal processing architectures and development of ASICs for spread-spectrum modems and image compression.
Fellow, IEEE, 1999
Office: 6731J Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.3179,
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Alan J. Laub,
Professor
Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1974
Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, high-end scientifi c computation, and computer-aided control system design, especially algorithms for control and filtering.
Fellow, IEEE, 1986
Office: 44-123B Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7221,
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Stanley Osher,
Professor
Ph.D, Courant Institute, New York University, 1966
Innovative numerical methods for applications ranging from image science to control to electromagnetics to computational physics and beyond.
National Academy of Sciences, 2005
Office: 7617F Math Sciences, Phone: 310.825.7158,
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Gregory J. Pottie,
Professor & Associate Dean
Ph.D, McMaster University, 1988
Communication systems and theory, with applications to personal communications, channel coding, and wireless sensor networks.
Fellow, IEEE, 2005
Office: 56-147G Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8150,
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Vwani Roychowdhury,
Professor
Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989
Models of computation: parallel systems, quantum information processing, nanoscale and molecular electronics, statistical algorithms for large-scale information processing, combinatorics and complexity and information theory, bioinformatics, cryptography.
Office: 6731C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.4975,
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Izhak Rubin,
Professor
Ph.D, Princeton University, 1970
Telecommunications and computer communications systems/networks; mobile wireless, optical, multimedia IP, ATM, satellite, and CATV networks; queueing systems, C3 systems/networks, network simulations and analysis, traffi c modeling/engineering.>
Fellow, IEEE, 1987
Office: 58-115 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2326,
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Ali H. Sayed,
Professor and Chairman
Ph.D, Stanford University, 1992
Adaptive and statistical signal processing, distributed processing, filtering and estimation, signal processing for communications, wireless networks, algorithms for large-scale structured computations.
Fellow, IEEE, 2001
Office: 58-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.267.2142,
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Stefano Soatto,
Professor
Ph.D, Caltech, 1996
Shape analysis, motion analysis, visual textures, image analysis and processing, nonlinear system theory.
Office: 3531D Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.4840,
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Jason Speyer,
Professor
Ph.D, Harvard University, 1968
Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control,and flight mechanics.
National Academy of Engineering, 2005
Life Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, AIAA, 1985
Office: 38-137O Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.4451,
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Mani B. Srivastava,
Professor and Vice Chair
Ph.D, UC Berkeley, 1992
Mobile and multimedia networked computing systems, design and synthesis of DSP systems, and low-power systems.
Office: 6731H Boelter Hall,Phone: 310.267.2098,
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Paulo Tabuada,
Professor
Ph.D, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2002
Design of networked embedded control systems. Modeling, analysis and design of discrete-event, timed and hybrid systems. Hierarchical and distributed control design, geometric and algebraic control theory for nonlinear and Hamiltonian control systems, categorical systems theory.
Office: 66-147F Engr. IV
Lieven Vandenberghe,
Professor and Vice Chair
Ph.D, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1992
Optimization in engineering, applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing.
Office: 68-119 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.1259,
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Mihaela van der Schaar,
Associate Professor
Ph.D, University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2001
Theory and design of novel algorithms, standards and systems for multimedia coding, processing and ubiquitous communication over Internet and wireless networks.
Office: 58-109 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.5843,
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John D. Villasenor,
Professor
Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989
Communications, signal and image processing, joint source and channel coding, lattice vector quantization, wavelet filter design, wireless multimedia communications, and low complexity image and video coding architectures and algorithms.
Office: 56-147H Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.0028,
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Richard D. Wesel,
Professor & Associate Dean
Ph.D, Stanford University, 1996
Communication theory with a particular interest in coded modulation including trellis codes and turbo codes for applications including mobile wireless communication systems, multiple antenna systems, and satellite communication systems.
Office: 7440B Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.2150,
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Alan N. Willson,
Professor
Ph.D, Syracuse University, 1967
Theory and application of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory.
Fellow, IEEE, 1996
Office: 66-147H Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7400,
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Kung Yao,
Professor
Ph.D, Princeton University, 1965
Communication theory, signal, acoustic, and array processing, wireless communication systems, sensor networks, chaos system theory, and VLSI and systolic algorithms and architectures.
Fellow, IEEE, 1994
Office: 68-113 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8885,
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