Namrata
Vaswani
Associate Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Iowa State University
3121 Coover Hall, Ames IA 50011 Email: namrata AT iastate
DOT edu Phone: 515-294-4012 Fax:
515-294-8432
Biography:
- Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University (Aug 2011 - )
- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University (Aug 2005 - July 2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellow &
Research Scientist, Electrical & Computer
- Research Intern,
Signal and Image Processing, HRL (formerly Hughes Research Labs),
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland,
- B.Tech.,
Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT),
News
- June 2014: Early career engineering faculty research award
- May 2014: Two recursive robust PCA papers accepted into Trans. IT and Trans. SP
- April 2014: two papers accepted to ISIT 2014, one to ICASSP 2014
- December 2013: Gave a dept colloquium at UIUC
- Aug 2013: Man Basnet graduated with a Ph.D. (joint with Fritz Keinert, Math)
- May 2013: Chenlu Qiu graduated with a Ph.D.
- September 2012: Optics Letters paper on Modified-CS for Optical Coherence Tomography accepted
- January 2012: TSP paper on reg-mod-bp exact reconstruction conditions accepted, TSP paper on reg-mod-BPDN error bounds to appear soon (Jan or Feb’12)
- August 2011: 2 new NSF grants received, Allerton 2011 paper accepted
- April 2011: New papers in CISS 2011, ISIT 2011 and ICIP 2011
- February 2011: Invited talk
at
- November 2010: Samarjit Das successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis
- Real-time Robust PCA page created
- New Student Opening for Fall 2011
- Allerton 2010 papers posted
Curriculum Vitae (CV): (pdf)
Research My research is in statistical and sequential signal processing and applications in medical imaging and computer vision. Currently, my focus is on:
- Recursive robust PCA
- Recursive sparse recovery (compressive sensing)
- Medical Imaging (MRI reconstruction)
- Older and still ongoing work
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009-present
- Organized a special session recursive reconstruction of sparse signal sequences at Asilomar 2010
- Tutorials chair for IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Proc. (ICIP) 2008
- Area chair (TPC member) for ICIP 2009 for interpolation
- Program committee member of CVPR,2008, 2009, ECCV and ICCV, 2007
- Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., IEEE Trans. Image Proc., IEEE Trans. PAMI and others and for various conferences (ICASSP, ICIP, CDC,...)
- Alumni
- Samarjit Das, Ph.D., Fall 2010, postdoc at the Robotics Institute at CMU
- Wei Lu, Ph.D., Fall 2011, research scientist at BHSAI
- Chenlu Qiu, Ph.D., Summer 2013
- Man Basnet, Ph.D., Summer 2013
- Rituparna Sarkar, M.S., Summer 2012
- Fardad Raisali, M.S., Spring 2012
- Taoran Li, M.S, Spring 2011
- Current Ph.D. students
- Jinchun Zhan (B.S. from USTC, China), Ph.D. student, started Fall 2011
- Han Guo, Ph.D. student, started Fall 2012
- Shouvik Ganguly, Ph.D. student, started Spring 2013 (B.Tech from IIT-Kanpur)
- Animesh Biswas (M.Tech. from IIT-Madras, India), Ph.D. student, started Fall 2011
- Brian Lois, Ph.D. student, started Fall 2010 (B.S. in Math from Marquette Univ, WI, co-advised with Prof Leslie Hogben in Math dept)
- Kevin Palmowski, Ph.D. student, started Fall 2011 (B.A. in Math from SUNY-Geneseo, NY, co-advised with Prof Leslie Hogben in Math dept)
- CIF: Small: Recursive Robust Principal Components Analysis (PCA), NSF (CCF - CIF), Sept 2011 - Aug 2014. Role: PI. Co-PI: Fritz Keinert (Math dept, ISU)
- RI: Small:
Exploiting Correlated Sparsity Pattern Change in
Dynamic Vision Problems, NSF (IIS - RI), Sept 2011 - Aug
2014,. Role: PI. Co-PI: none
- Recursive Reconstruction of Sparse Signal Sequences, NSF (CCF - CIF), July 2009 - June 2012. Role: PI. Co-PI: none
- Change Detection in Nonlinear Systems and Applications in Shape Analysis, NSF ECCS/PCAN, August 2007 - July 2010. Role: PI. Co-PI: none
- Iowa State Univ. VPR Office, Faculty Grant Development Award, Summer 2006
Office hours for Spring 2014: Wednesdays and Thursdays 10-11am
- Spring
2014: EE 527
(Estimation and Detection Theory) and EE 224 recitations
- Fall
2013: EE 224 recitations
- Spring
2013: EE
520 (Special Topics in CSP): Matrix Completion and Sparse Recovery
- Fall
2012: EE 322 (Probabilistic Methods for Electrical
Engineers)
- Spring 2012: EE 424 (Introduction
to DSP)
- Spring 2012: EE 527 (Estimation and Detection Theory)
- Fall 2011: EE 224 recitations and labs
- Spring 2011: EE 322 (Probabilistic Methods for Electrical Engineers)
- Fall 2010: EE 524 (Digital Signal Processing)
- Spring 2010: EE 527 (Detection and Estimation Theory)
- Spring
2010: EE 224 recitations
- Fall 2009: EE 528 (Digital
Image Processing)
- Spring 2009: EE 520 (Special Topics in CSP: Compressive
Sensing)
- Spring 2009: EE 322
(Probabilistic Methods for Electrical Engineers)
- Fall 2008: EE 322
(Probabilistic Methods for Electrical Engineers)
- Spring 2008: EE 527 (Detection
and Estimation Theory)
- Fall 2007: EE 322
(Probabilistic Methods for Electrical Engineers)
- Spring 2007: EE 528
(Digital Image Processing)
- Fall 2006: EE 322
(Probabilistic Methods for Electrical Engineers)
- Fall 2006: EE 597 (CSP
Seminar)
- Spring 2006: EE 224
(Signals and Systems) Lab, Sections B & F
- Fall 2005: EE 520: Special Topics in Signal Processing for
Image Analysis and Computer Vision
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