PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley, Wireless Foundations Center. Originally from Andover, MA and went to school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for undergraduate studies and research at CSAIL . I've enjoyed teaching experiences in Kenya, Africa as part of the MIT African Internet Technology Initiative. I was a visiting scholar at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. I am currently present at Berkeley.

Curriculum Vitae PDF

Recent News and Presentations:

(May 2 2013) [Dissertation Talk, U. C. Berkeley, EECS Department] [Abstract]
                      "Modern Low-Complexity Capacity-Achieving Codes For Network Communication"
                       [Presentation PDF (100 Slides)]

(April 2013) Paper on polar codes for broadcast channels accepted to ISIT 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
(February 2013) ITA Conference at UCSD San Diego, Graduation Day Invited Poster Presentation:  [Poster PDF]
(January 2013) Returned from EPFL Switzerland. Teaching Recitations EE120: Signals and Systems, Fourier Analysis at Berkeley  [Class Curriculum]

Journal and arXiv Publications:

[1] Goela, N.; Abbe, E.; Gastpar, M. C.; , "Polar Codes For Broadcast Channels," January 25, 2013, In submission to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory. [arXiv preprint]
[2] Suh, C.; Goela, N.; Gastpar, M. C.; , "Computation in Multicast Networks: Function Alignment and Converse Theorems," October, 2012, Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory. [arXiv preprint]
[3] Goela, N.; Gastpar, M.; , "Reduced-Dimension Linear Transform Coding of Correlated Signals in Networks," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol.60, no.6, pp.3174-3187, June 2012.  [IEEE Explore]

Selected Conference Publications:

[1] Goela, N.; Abbe, E.; Gastpar, M.; , "Polar Codes For Broadcast Channels," accepted in Proc. IEEE ISIT 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, July, 2013.
[2] Goela, N.; Suh, C.; Gastpar, M.; , "Network Coding with Computation Alignment," in Proc. IEEE ITW 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept., 2012. [PDF]
[3] Goela, N.; Abbe, E.; Gastpar, M.; , "Polar Codes for Deterministic Broadcast Channels," in Proc. International Zurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, March, 2012.
[4] Jeon, S.; Goela, N.; Gastpar, M.; , "Degrees of Freedom of Sparsely Connected Wireless Networks," in Proc. International Symposium on Information Theory, Boston, USA, July, 2012.
[5] Suh, C.; Goela, N.; Gastpar, M.; , "Approximate Feedback Capacity of the Gaussian Multicast Channel," in Proc. International Symposium on Information Theory, Boston, USA, July, 2012.
[6] Reeves, G.; Goela, N.; Milosavljevic N.; Gastpar, M.; , "A Compressed Sensing Wire-tap Channel," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory, Paraty, Brazil, October, 2011.
[7] Goela, N.; Korada, S. B.; Gastpar, M.; , "On LP Decoding of Polar Codes," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory, Dublin, Ireland, August, 2010.
[8] Goela, N.; Gastpar, M.; , "Linear Compressive Networks," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, South Korea, June, 2009.
[9] Goela, N.; Gastpar, M.; , "Distributed Karhunen-Loeve Transform with Nested Subspaces," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, April, 2009.
[10] Kirmani, A.; Goela, N.; Chatterjee, N.; Vigoda, B., "A Message-Passing Algorithm for Active Contours," in Proc. International IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, USA, March, 2008.
[11] Goela, N.; Wilson, K; Niu, F.; Divakaran, A; Otsuka, I.; , "A Support Vector Machine Framework for Genre-Independent Scene Change Detection," in Proc. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Beijing, China, July, 2007.

Thesis Publications:

[1] Goela, N.; "Visual Hull Motion Graphs: Matching and Compressing Sequences of Visual Hulls," M. Eng. Thesis Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of EECS, June, 2004.  [Thesis PDF]

Awards:

[1] USA NDSEG (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship), 2007-2010
[2] Finalist (Top 7) International Symposium on Information Theory 2009, Student Paper.