theses

(All filed with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, except as indicated.)

Phd

• Beyond Traditional Transform Coding
  Vivek K Goyal, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, December 1998.
  • Winner of the 1998 Eliahu Jury Award (for "Outstanding Achievement in Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing")
• Economical Sampling of Parametric Signals
  Julius Kusuma, Ph.D. thesis, August 2006.
• Improvements in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Excitation Pulse Design
  Adam C. Zelinski, Ph.D. thesis, September 2008.

SM/MEng

• Nonlinear Transform Coding with Lossless Polar Coordinates
  Demba E. Ba, S.M. thesis, June 2006.
• Optimal Information Storage: Nonsequential Sources and Neural Channels
  Lav R. Varshney, S.M. thesis, June 2006.
  DOI: 1721.1/37851
  • Winner of the 2006 Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Prize (best MIT SM thesis in electrical engineering)
• Nonadaptive Lossy Encoding of Sparse Signals
  Ruby J. Pai, M.Eng. thesis, August 2006.
• Rate Control and Bit Allocation for JPEG Transcoding
  Ricky D. Nguyen, M.Eng. thesis, May 2007.

• Estimation of Channelized Features in Geological Media Using Sparsity Constraints
  Behnam Jafarpour, S.M. thesis, February 2008.
• Mitigating Timing Noise in ADCs through Digital Post-Processing
  Daniel S. Weller, S.M. thesis, June 2008.
• Functional Quantization
  Vinith Misra, M.Eng. thesis, June 2008.
  • Winner of the 2008 David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize (best MIT MEng thesis in electrical engineering)
• Generalizations of Permutation Source Codes
  Ha Q. Nguyen, S.M. thesis, September 2009.
• Compressive Sensor Networks: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms
  John Z. Sun, S.M. thesis, September 2009.

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