Tom Baran

tbaran@mit.edu

617.258.5819—Tel

Tom Baran graduated from Tufts University in May 2004, where he majored in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He earned his Master's Degree at MIT in 2007 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the field. In his undergraduate career his research focus was on low-complexity signal processing, and his hobbies included signal processing for musical applications. Tom has spent summers working for Thomson Multimedia, ST Microelectronics, General Eastern Instruments, and most recently the Bose Corporation. Tom is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and IEEE.

http://web.mit.edu/tbaran/www/

Zahi Karam
zahi@mit.edu
617.258.5819—Tel

Zahi N. Karam graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. In January 2006 he earned his masters degree from MIT and is currently working on his Ph.D. In his undergraduate degree his focus was on the field of Digital Signal Processing. His research interests lie in the broad realm of DSP including nonlinear signal processing.; he is interested in both theory and applications in the field.

http://web.mit.edu/zahi/www

Jon Paul Kitchens

jonpaul@mit.edu

617.258.5819 - Tel

Jon Paul Kitchens earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in May 2004 with double majors in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In addition to his undergraduate focus on computer engineering and photonics, he became interested in signal processing while developing a radar system at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the summer of 2003. Since graduation, he has been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on passive sonar signal processing and beamforming. He earned a masters degree at MIT in 2008 under the Lincoln Laboratory Scholars Program and is currently working on his Ph.D. His research interests include adaptive signal processing, array processing, and passive sonar.

Jeremy Leow

ksj_leow@mit.edu

617.253.5959 - Tel

Jeremy Leow graduated from Imperial College London in August 2008 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree at MIT. During his undergraduate degree, he focused on signal processing, communications and control systems. In addition, his final year project was on the comparison between sampling finite rate of innovation signals and compressed sensing. Jeremy is presently working on the optimum sampling of signals using time warping functions.

He interned at DSO National Laboratories in Singapore during summer 2007 and 2008 and is currently on a scholarship from the Defence Science and Technology Agency, Singapore.

Joseph McMichael

jmcmicha@mit.edu

617.253.5959 - Tel

Joe McMichael graduated from Seattle University in June 2009 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.  He is a Presidential Fellow currently pursuing a Master's degree. Joe has a wide range of interests in signal processing.

As an undergraduate, Joe served as a research intern at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, developing an instrument to study the sun's solar wind and its interaction with planets.  The instrument will be launched aboard the MidSTAR-2 satellite in 2011.  Joe also served as an intern at Boeing Phantom Works, using formal methods to verify a highly secure multi-level network guard.  He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and IEEE.

http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/

Shay Maymon

maymon@mit.edu

617.253.7322 - Tel

Shay Maymon graduated from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel- Aviv, Israel in June 1998 with a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering. In June 1999 he was awarded his masters degree from TAU and he is currently working towards a Ph.D. His research interests within the area of signal processing include statistical inference, detection and Estimation theory.

For six years he was serving as an R&D engineer and an officer in a leading technological unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Shay has served first as a teaching assistant and then as a lecturer of several courses within the area of signal processing at the department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University.

He currently holds the Fulbright fellowship for Ph.D students.

http://web.mit.edu/~maymon/www/

Dennis Wei

dwei@mit.edu

617.253.7322—Tel

Dennis Wei, a native of Toronto, Canada, began his studies at MIT in 2001. He received S.B. degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics in June 2006 and a M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in February 2007, all from MIT. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. Dennis' master's research was focused on sampling based on local bandwidth. He is interested in many aspects of signal processing and its applications.

Dennis was a Siebel Scholar for the academic year 2005-2006 and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. He has spent summers working at Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a teaching assistant for 6.341 Discrete Time Signal Processing during the Fall 2005 term. He is the principal violist in the MIT Symphony Orchestra.