Namrata Vaswani
Assistant 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

CV

Publications

Service

Research Description

Teaching

Students

Funding

Biography:

• Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University (Aug 2005 - present)
• Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Scientist, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (Aug 2004 - Aug 2005)
• Research Intern,  Signal and Image Processing, HRL (formerly Hughes Research Labs), Malibu, CA (June 2001 - Oct 2001)
  
• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park   (Aug 1999 - Aug 2004)
• B.Tech., Electrical Engineering,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India     (Aug 1995 - May 1999)

Curriculum Vitae (CV):   (pdf)   (not updated)

Research   My research is in estimation and detection problems in sequential signal processing, biomedical image analysis and computer vision. Current focus is on compressive sensing of a time sequence of sparse signals; large dimensional sequential state (signal) estimation & tracking, change detection and shape tracking

Professional Service:

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009-present
• Tutorials chair for IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Proc. (ICIP) 2008 and Area chair (TPC member) for ICIP 2009
• 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 conferences (ICASSP, ICIP, CDC,...)
  

Publications     

Graduate Students (Ph.D.):

• Wei Lu  (M.S. from USTC, China)
• Samarjit Das (B.Tech from IIT-Guwahati, India), Ph.D. candidate (passed prelim. exam)
• Chenlu Qiu (B.S. from Southeast University, China)
• Fardad Raisali (B.S. from Sharif University, Iran)
  

Funding:

• Recursive Reconstruction of Sparse Signal Sequences : NSF CCF/Signal Processing July 2009 - June 2012
  
• Change Detection in Nonlinear Systems and Applications in Shape Analysis, NSF ECCS/PCAN  August 2007 - July 2010
• Iowa State Univ. VPR Office, Faculty Grant Development Award, Summer 2006

Teaching:

• Office Hours (Fall 2009): Tuesdays 10-11, Friday 4:30-5:30
• 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