Biography

Education

Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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

Journals

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012–
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Nov 2004-Nov 2009
  • Associate Editor, IEEE JSTSP special issue Anomalous pattern discovery for spatial, temporal, networked, and high-dimensional signals

Committees

  • Member, Technical Committee
    Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2009-2015)
  • Regional Officer, (2010 – present), IEEE Signal Processing Society
  • Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, Control Systems Society, 2003-2005
  • Associate Editor, Joint European Control Conference and IEEE CDC, 2005

Conferences

  • TPC, International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2014
  • TPC, Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2011
  • Demonstration Chair, IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2010
  • TPC, IFAC Symp. On System Identification, July 2009, 2011
  • TPC, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Aug. 2007
  • TPC, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002

Invited Sessions & Workshops

  • General Chair, NSF Workshop Networked Sensing, Information and Control, May 2006
  • Invited Session Organizer,  Statistical Signal Processing in Sensor Networks, ICASSP 2005
  • 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