Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1999
• M.A., Mathematics, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1999
• M.E., Electrical Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1994
• B.Sc., Mathematics, Loyola College, University of Madras, Chennai, 1990

Teaching

• EE 520 Topics in Digital Image and Video Communications, Spring 2000
• EE 422 Communication Systems II, Fall 1999

Research

Networked communications -- wireless communications, detection/estimation, and computer networks

Multimedia -- data compression, error-resilient image/video coding, rate control, and digital watermarking

VLSI -- low power, reliability

Applied probability/Signal Processing -- Wavelets based filtering and hypothesis testing, probabilistic analysis of distributed algorithms

Complete list of publications with on-line papers

Current Projects

• Issues in the Design of Error-resilient, Low Complexity Video Coder
• Acquisition of Direct Sequence CDMA Signals
• Digital Image Watermarking - Detection, Estimation, and Attack
• Power Estimation for Low Power VLSI Applications
• Low Power Video Compression Architecture and Algorithms
  

Students

Graduate Students

• Ourania Koukousol - Issues in digital video watermarking
• Benjamin Graubard - Techniques for low power wireless video

Undergraduate Students

• Kevin Peutz - Digital data-hiding

Note for Prospective Students

Invited Talks

Two problems in high level power estimation and their soultions, Colloquium speaker, Department of Computer Science and Engg., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Dec. 1999
A semi-drunk's walk and its applications, Colloquium speaker, Department of Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, Nov. 1999

Moment-wavelet methods for filtering, Special session on wavelet analysis and applications, The 3rd International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Atlanta, May 1999

Professional Activities

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Session chair, Millennium Multimedia Special Session (MMSS) on Multimedia Content Protection, The International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, March 2000
Reviewer for various journals and conferences
Session co-organizer and chair, Special session on wavelet analysis and applications, The Third international conference on dynamic systems and applications, Atlanta, May 1999
Editor-in-Chief of looking .forward , IEEE Computer Society's student newsletter for Spring 1997
Member, IEEE

Awards

University of South Florida graduate council outstanding Ph.D. dissertation prize, 1999
Richard E. Merwin Award for contributions to IEEE Computer Society and academic achievements, IEEE Computer Society, 1997
Australian Research Council Fellowship, 1995
Indian Institute of Science Scholarship, 1990-93
Sri. Raghavendra Merit Scholarship for excellence in Mathematics, Loyola College, 1987

Personal

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