Research

NARAYANA P. SANTHANAM
UC BERKELEY   http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~prasadsn/index.html

EDUCATION

Ph.D.  (2006) (with Prof. A. Orlitsky), University of California, San Diego;
M.S. (2003) (with Prof. A. Orlitsky), University of California, San Diego;
B. Tech (2000), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Statistical problems in electrical engineering, Information theory, Statistical learning, Signal processing and sparsity recovery, Large alphabet problems, Coding for communications, Combinatorial and probabilistic problems.

EXPERIENCE

1. Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley, Jan 2007-.
2. Graduate Student Researcher, UC San Diego, 2000-2006.
3. Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center, Lossy compression algorithms [10], 2005.

MAJOR AWARDS

1. 2006 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award for [4].
2. 2003 Capocelli Prize for [21].

PUBLICATIONS
A list of my publications that have already appeared in print is here. Journal publications are: [1,2,3,4], and [5]. while [6] through [22] are conference publications. All authors ordered alphabetically except for [7].

DISSEMINATION OF ABOVE WORK

The above papers formed a part of

1. Invited talk at Information theory Workshop, 2007;
2. Tutorial at ICASSP 2005;
3. 18-hour course at EPFL (2005) offered by Prof. A. Orlitsky.
4. The course ECE 287A in Winter 2005 at UCSD;
5. Plenary talk at UAI 2004 [17];

COURSE PREPARATION

Universal compression and probability estimation, Winter 2005 and 2006 with Prof. A. Orlitsky.

TEACHING

TA at UCSD for Information Theory (Fall 2001), Discrete Math (Summer 2003), Universal compression (Winter 2005).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. Reviewer for Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Symposium on Information Theory, and Computational Learning Theory.
2. IEEE member and member of IT Society.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Expert level in C/C++, familiar with JAVA; scripting tools TCL/TK; scientific software MATLAB, MAPLE; extensively use several platforms, including some system administration in Linux.

REFERENCES

1. Prof. Venkat Anantharam, Dept of EECS, UC Berkeley.
2. Dr. Dharmendra Modha, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center.
3. Prof. Wojciech Szpankowski, Dept of Computer Science, Purdue University.
4. Prof. Ken Zeger, Dept of ECE, UC San Diego.

My advisors:

1. Prof. Alon Orlitsky, Dept of ECE and Computer Science, Advisor at UC San Diego.
2. Prof. Martin Wainwright, Dept of EECS and Statistics, Host at UC Berkeley.