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Martin J. Wainwright

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Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Department of Statistics
University of California at Berkeley


Contact information

EECS information:

263 Cory Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 643-1978
Fax: (510) 643-7846
Email: x@y with x=wainwrig y=eecs.berkeley.edu
Statistics information:

421 Evans Hall #3860
Berkeley, CA 94720-3860
Phone: (510)-643-1975
Fax: (510) 642-7892
Email: x@y with x=wainwrig y=stat.berkeley.edu


NOTE: The easiest and most reliable way to reach me is by email.

Research affiliations and useful links

  • Designated Emphasis in Communication, Computation and Statistics: An interdisciplinary program that bridges the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

  • Statistical Machine Learning: A group of researchers and students from EECS and Statistics.

    Wireless Foundations: A communications and signal processing group which is housed in the Wong Center in the EECS Department.

    Tutorials

    Upcoming ICML tutorial: Graphical models and variational methods (ICML 2008, Helsinki, Finland)

    Some seminars and reading groups

    Upcoming seminars in the Department of Statistics.
    Signal Processing, Networking and Communication Seminar in the Department of EECS.
    Reading group: Forum for reading and discussing papers/books on changing topics).

    Research areas

  • Statistical signal and image processing
  • Graphical models and machine learning
  • Communication and coding
  • Distributed signal processing
  • Statistical decision-making under communication constraints

    Background material:

  • Tutorial slides on Graphical Models, Message-Passing and Variational Methods.
  • Talk slides on Linear-programming decoding of low-density parity check codes.

    Publications

    Graphical models and message-passing
    Coding, data compression, algorithms
    High-dimensional statistical inference
    Distributed statistical inference and signal processing
    Natural image statistics
    Statistical approaches to biological vision
    Theses

    Current group members

    Graduate students

  • Alekh Agarwal
  • Arash Amini
  • Amin Gohari
  • Pamela Lee
  • Sahand Negahban
  • Nima Noorshams
  • Dapo Omidiran
  • Garvesh Raskutti

    Postdocs and visting scholars

    Alumni

  • Alexandros Dimakis Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Univ. Southern California
  • Matt Johnson (Undergrad researcher 2007--2008, Now at MIT)
  • XuanLong Nguyen Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Univ. Michigan
  • Pradeep Ravikumar Assistant Professor, Department of CS, UT Austin
  • Prasad Santhanam Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, University of Hawaii
  • Sameer Vermani (EECS Masters, 2006: now at Qualcomm)
    Last updated 07/07/2009