Education
Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1997
Research Areas:
Statistical Learning & Signal Processing, Information & Control theory, Video Analysis, Multi-Camera Networks
Professional Experience
2011-present, Professor ECE and Systems Division, Boston University, MA
2008 – 2010, Associate Professor, ECE and Systems Division, Boston University, MA
2008 – present, Research Affiliate, LIDS, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2007-2008, Visiting Scientist, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2001 – 2005, Assistant Professor, ECE, Boston University, Boston, MA
2000-2001, Visiting Scientist, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1997 – 2001, Research Scientist, United Technologies Research Center, Hartford, CT
Honors
Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2011
Featured Speaker, Homeland Security Summit, March, 2009
Keynote Speaker, RICC, Northeastern University, Oct. 2008
Plenary Speaker, Northeast Control Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2006
Crossbow Sensor Network Challenge Competition, Finalist, 2005
NSF CAREER Award, 2005
PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award), 2003
ONR YIP (Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award), 2002
Plenary Speaker, LIDS Student Conference, MIT, 2001
Outstanding Achievement Award, United Technologies, 1998
International Symposium on Information Theory, Student Paper Award, Finalist, 2010
Student Best Disssertation Runner-Up, ACM/IEEE ICDSC, 2008
Five patents in statistical signal processing and machine learning
Professional Service
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012–
IEEE Senior Member, 2009 – present
Technical Committee Member, Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2011
Technical Committee Member (Elected 2009), IEEE Signal Processing Society
Regional Officer, (2010 – present), IEEE Signal Processing Society
Demonstration Chair, IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2010
Program Committee Member, IFAC Symp. On System Identification, July 2009, 2011
Program Committee Member, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Aug. 2007
General Chair, NSF Workshop Networked Sensing, Information and Control, May 2006
Invited Session Organizer, Statistical Signal Processing in Sensor Networks, ICASSP 2005
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Nov 2004-Nov 2009
Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, Control Systems Society, 2003-2005
Associate Editor, Joint European Control Conference and IEEE CDC, 2005
Session Chair, System Identification, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2003
Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002
Invited Session Organizer, 2001, Large-Scale Real-time Decision Systems; ACC 2001
Books:
V. Saligrama Eds, “Networked Sensing, Information and Control,’’ Springer Verlag 2008, in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
