Program Details

Welcome (30 min)

1:00pm Opening Remarks from Prof. Ramesh Rao  

1:10pm Opening Remarks from Dean Al Pisano

1:20pm    Opening Remarks from  Department Chair Bill Lin 

1:30pm - 2:30pm

High-School & Undergraduate Studies

    Remarks from colleagues and friends

Graduate Studies 

     Remarks from advisor, faculty, colleagues and friends

2:30pm - 4:30pm:

   Technical Presentations:

• BD Rao, KVS Hari, “Performance analysis of root-MUSIC”, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 37 (12), 1939-1949.  Speaker:  P.P. Vaidyanathan

• I. F. Gorodnitsky and B. D. Rao, "Sparse signal reconstruction from limited data using FOCUSS: a reweighted minimum norm algorithm," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 600-616, March 1997.  Speaker:  Ethan Duni

• S. F. Cotter, B. D. Rao, Kjersti Engan and K. Kreutz-Delgado, "Sparse solutions to linear inverse problems with multiple measurement vectors," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 2477-2488, July 2005.   Speaker:  Ken Kreutz-Delgado

• JC Roh, BD Rao, “Transmit beamforming in multiple-antenna systems with finite rate feedback: A VQ-based approach”,  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 52 (3), 1101-1112.  Speaker:  Georgios Giannakis

• D. P. Wipf and B. D. Rao, "An Empirical Bayesian Strategy for Solving the Simultaneous Sparse Approximation Problem," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 3704-3716, July 2007. Speaker:  Piya Pal

• E. Nayebi, A. Ashikhmin, T. L. Marzetta, H. Yang and B. D. Rao, "Precoding and Power Optimization in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4445-4459, July 2017, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2698449. Speaker:  Elina Nayebi

• E. Nayebi and B. D. Rao, "Semi-blind Channel Estimation for Multiuser Massive MIMO Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 540-553, 15 Jan.15, 2018, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2771725.  Speaker:  Elina Nayebi

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Remarks from Colleagues, Friends & Students

Remarks from Bhaskar

Group Photo

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Reception

Ethan Duni

Georgios Giannakis

Ken Kreutz-Delgado 

Bill Lin

Elina Nayebi

Piya Pal

Al Pisano

Rames Rao

P. P. Vaidyanathan