Hero Group
Current Students and Postdoctoral Researchers
- Mehmet Aktukmat (aktukmak@umich.edu) (Postdoc)
- Neophytos Charalambides (neochara@umich.edu) (EECS PHD)
- Conrad Hougen (chougen@umich.edu) (EECS PhD)
- Robert Malinas (malinas@umich.edu) (EECS PHD)
- Dogyoon Song (dogyoons@umich.edu) (Postdoc)
- Zeyu Sun (zeyusun@umich.edu) (EECS PHD)
- Ren Wang (renwang@umich.edu) (Postdoc)
- Yu Wang (wayneyw@umich.edu) (Statistics PhD)
- Audelia Wittbrodt (awittbro@umich.edu) (Applied Physics PHD)
- Haonan Zhu (EECS PHD)
Former Group Members
Past Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Byoungwook Jang (bwjang@umich.edu) (Statistics PHD)
- Elyas Sabeti (2019-2021), Research Staff, General Motors AI Labs, Austin Texas
- Mayank Baranwal (2018-2020), Adj Professor, IIT Bombay, India.
- Rohit Gupta (2019-2020), Asst Professor, Dept Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay India.
- Lin Zhou (2018-2020), Asst Professor, Beihang University, Beijing China.
- Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh (2016-2019), Asst. Prof at the University of Maine,Orono.
- Abram Magner (2018-2019), Asst. Prof at the State University of New York at Albany.
- Farshad Harirchi (2017-2018), Research Staff, Scientific Research Laboratory, Ford Inc, Dearborn Michigan
- Hye Won Chung (2014-2017), Asst. Prof at KAIST, Seoul Korea.
- (Easton) Li Xu (2017-2018), Asst Prof at Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Sijia Liu (2016-2017), Asst Professor, Michigan State University
- Yasin Yilmaz (2014-2016), Asst Professor at University of South Florida
- Taposh Banerjee (2014-2015), Asst Prof at University of Texas, San Antonio
- Jie Chen (2014-2015), Professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian China.
- Goran Marjanovic (2013-2014), Research Scientist, Univ South Wales Australia
- Greg Newstadt, (2012-2014), Software Engineer at Google, Inc.
- Alex Kulesza, (2012-2014), Research Scientist, Google, NYC
- Joyce Liu, (2012-2013), Postdoc at UC Berkeley and UPenn
- Dennis Wei (2011-2013) (.html), IBM Watson Research, Yorktown Heights New York
- Sung Jin Hwang, (2012), Software Engineer at Google, Inc.
- Koby Todros (2010-2012), Professor, Ben Gurion Univ, Israel.
- Francesca Bassi (2011-2012), Research Scientist, ENST Paris.
- Roni Mittelman (2010-2011), Senior Applied Scientist, AI and Research Group, Microsoft, Sunnyvale CA.
- Xu Chen (2010-2011) (.html). Research Engineer. Sharp Labs of America.
- Ami Wiesel (2007-2009), Professor, Hebrew University, ami at cs.huji.ac.il
- Eran Bashan (2008) CEO Hygiea Inc, bashan@umich.edu
- Nicolas Dobigeon (2007), Professor ENSEEIHT (Toulouse)
- Mark Kliger (2006-2007), CTO Medasense Biometrics, Ltd, mkliger at medasense.com
- Neal Patwari (2005-2006), Professor University of Utah, npatwari at ece.utah.edu
- Raviv Raich (2004-2007), Associate Professor Oregon State University, raich at eecs.oregonstate.edu
- Pei-Jung Chung (2004), Lecturer, University of Edinborough, UK, peijung_chung at yahoo.com
- Cyrille Hory (2003-2004), Research Staff INRETS, Paris France hory at inrets.fr.
- Christophe Vignat (2000-2001), Professor Univ. of Paris XI, Paris France. Christophe.VIGNAT at lss.supelec.fr.
- Stephane Chretien, (1995-1998), Professor University of Lyon, France, stephane.chretien at univ-lyon2.fr
- Olivier Michel, (1993-1994), Professor INP, Grenoble, France olivier.michel at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr
Former PhD Students
- Byoungwook Jang, Meta/Facebook NYC. Thesis title: Probabilistic Decomposition in Machine Learning Problems (.pdf), Dept. of Statistics, April 2022.
- Yaya Zhai, Research Scientist, Vivosense, Inc. Thesis title: Digital Biomarker Models for Prediction of Infectious Disease Susceptibility (.pdf), Dept of Computation Medicine and Bioinformatics, Aug 2021.
- Yun Wei, Post-doc, Duke and SAMSI. Thesis title: Theoretical Foundations for Clustering and Screening Heterogeneous and High dimensional Data. (.pdf). Dept of Mathematics (AIM), Jan. 2020.
- Morteza Noshad, Post-doc at Stanford University. Thesis title: Estimation of Information Measures and Applications in Machine Learning (.pdf). Dept of EECS, Jan. 2020.
- Joel LeBlanc, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor. Thesis title: Optical Systems Identification for Passive Electro-Optical Imaging (.pdf). Dept of EECS, Jan. 2020.
- Brandon Oselio, Postdoc Univ of Michigan. Thesis title: Models and Inference with Network Structure (.pdf). Dept of EECS, June. 2019
- Elizabeth Hou, Research Staff, STR, Boston MA. Thesis title: Anomaly Detection and Sequential Filtering with Partial Observations, (.pdf). Dept. of EECS, Jan. 2020.
- Tianpei Xie, Applied Scientist, Amazon. Thesis title: Robust Learning from Multiple Information Sources, (.pdf). Dept of EECS May 2017.
- Kristjan Greenewald, Research Staff, IBM AI Lab, Cambridge MA, Thesis title: High dimensional covariance estimation for spatio-temporal processes, (.pdf). Dept of EECS Jan. 2017.
- Pin-Yu Chen , Research Staff, IBM Watson. Thesis title: Analysis and actions on graph data, (.pdf). Dept of EECS Sept. 2016.
- Kevin Moon, Asst Professor, Utah State University. Thesis title: Nonparametric Estimation of Distributional Functionals and Applications, (.pdf). Dept of EECS Aug. 2016.
- Yu-Hui Chen . Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View. Thesis title: Multimodal Image Fusion and Its Applications, (.pdf). Dept of EECS Nov. 2015.
- Dae-Yon Jung . Research Scientist, Korean manpower establishment. Thesis title: Feature Selection and Non-Euclidean Dimensionality Reduction: Application to Electrocardiology, (.pdf). Dept of EECS June 2015.
- Hamed Firouzi. Vice President, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY. Thesis title “High Dimensional Correlation Networks and Their Applications.” (.pdf).Dept of EECS Feb. 2015.
- Zhaoshi Meng. Senior researcher at Vicarious, Inc., San Francisco CA. Thesis title “Distributed learning, prediction and detection in probabilistic graphs.” Dept of EECS Aug. 2014.
- Jeffrey Calder. Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota. Formerly, Morrey Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. Thesis title “Hamilton-Jacobi equations for sorting and percolation problems,” (.pdf) . Dept. Mathematics, AIM Program, Apr. 2014. (Co-chair Selim Esedoglu).
- Ko-Jen (Mark) Hsiao. Senior research scientist at Netflix, Inc. Thesis title “Combining Disparate Information for Machine Learning,” (.pdf) . Dept. EECS Apr. 2014.
- Ted Tsiligkaridis . Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA. High Dimensional Separable Representations for Statistical Estimation and Controlled Sensing, (.pdf) . Dept. EECS Dec. 2013.
- Se-Un Park . Research staff, Schlumberger Research, Cambridge MA. Reconstruction, Classification, and Segmentation for Computational Microscopy, (.pdf) . Dept. EECS Aug. 2013.
- Paul Shearer , (shearer.pr at gmail.com). Data scientist at MassMutual Financial Group, Boston MA. Separable inverse problems, blind deconvolution, and stray light correction for extreme ultraviolet solar images, (.pdf) , Program in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, May 2013. (Co-chairs Anna Gilbert and Rich Frazin).
- Greg Newstadt (newstage37 at gmail.com). Software Engineer, Google, Inc, Pittsburgh PA. Adaptive sensing techniques for dynamic target tracking and detection with applications to synthetic aperture radars, (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Jan 2013.
- Tzu-Yu Liu (joyliu@umich.edu). Senior machine learning scientist, Freenome, San Francisco. Thesis Statistical Learning for Sample-Limited High-dimensional Problems with Application to Biomedical Data (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Jan 2013. (Co-chair Clayton Scott).
- Sung Jin Hwang (ssjh@umich.edu). Software Engineer at Google, Inc, Mountain View, CA. Thesis Geometric representation of high dimensional data , (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Oct 2012. (Co-chair Steven Damelin).
- Kevin Xu (xukevin@umich.edu). Assistant Professor, University of Toledo, OH. Thesis ,Computational methods for learning and inference on dynamic networks (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, May 2012.
- Kumar Sricharan (kksreddy@umich.edu). Principal Data Scientist, Intuit. Thesis Neighborhood graphs for estimation of density functionals, (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, April 2012.
- Arnau Tibau Puig (arnau.tibau@gmail.com). Director of Data Science, LetsGo, Barcelona. Thesis Learning from high-dimensional multivariate signals, (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Jan 2012.
- Yilun Chen (alwyn.chen@gmail.com). Vice President – Engineering, Join Intelligent Solution. Shanghai China. Thesis Regularized Estimation of High-dimensional Covariance Matrices (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, March 2011.
- Yongsheng Huang (huangys@umich.edu). Software Engineer, DataBricks Boston. Thesis (Bioinformatics) Integrative Statistical Learning and Applications in Predicting Features of Diseases and Health (.pdf) , Bioinformatics Program, Jan 2011. (Co-chair Jay Hess).
- Patrick Harrington (plhjr@umich.edu). Head of Machine Learning and Risk, Square Inc. Thesis (Bioinformatics) Inverse problems in high dimensional stochastic systems under uncertainty, (.pdf) , Bioinformatics Program, Aug. 2010.
- Kevin Carter (kmcarter@umich.edu). Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft, Inc. Formerly Associate Group Leader, at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Thesis (EECS) Dimensionality Reduction on Statistical Manifolds, (.pdf) , Dept. of EECS, Dec. 2008.
- Arvind Rao (ukarvind@umich.edu). Associate Professor, Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan. Thesis (EECS/Bioinformatics) Prospective identification of long-range transcriptional regulatory regions via integrative genomics, (.pdf) . Bioinformatics Program and Dept. of EECS, July 2008. (Co-chairs David states and Douglas Engel).
- Eran Bashan (bashan@umich.edu). CEO, Director and Founder, Hygiea Inc, Ann Arbor MI. Thesis (EECS) Efficient resource allocation schemes for search, (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, May 2008. (Co-chair Jeffrey Fessler).
- Jay Marble , Senior EW Engineer at URS Federal Services, Bloomington IN. Thesis (EECS) Advances in surface penetrating technologies for imaging, detection, and classification, (.pdf) . Dept. EECS, Dec. 2007.
- Raghuram Rangarajan . Principal Engineer at Mimosa Networks, San Jose CA. Thesis (EECS) Resource constrained adaptive sensing, (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Aug 2006.
- Derek Justice (djusticed at mmm.com). Research Staff at SAS Institute Inc, Raleigh NC. Thesis (EECS) “Inference methods for message endpoint localization in networks,” (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Aug. 2006.
- Dongxiao Zhu (dongxiaozhu at gmail.com). Professor of Computer Science Wayne State University, Detroit MI. Thesis (EECS) “Reconstructing Signaling Pathways from High Throughput Data” (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, May 2006.
- Doron Blatt (dblatt at DRWHoldings.com). CEO of DRW Israel, Head of Algorithmic Trading at DRW Trading Group, Chicago IL. Thesis (EECS) “Performance Evaluation and Optimization for Inference Systems: Model Uncertainty, Distributed Implementation, and Active Sensing,” (.pdf) . Dept. EECS, May 2006.
- Michael Ting (mting@umich.edu). Software developer at Criteo, Paris France. Thesis (EECS) “Signal Processing for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy,” (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, May 2006.
- Neal Patwari (npatwari at ece.utah.edu). Professor at Washington University, St Louis. Thesis (EECS) Location estimation in sensor networks (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Sept. 2005.
- Jose Costa . Quantitative Analyst at Teza Technologies, Chicago. Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) Random graphs for structure discovery in high dimensional data , Dept. EECS, Aug. 2005.
- Chris Kreucher (christopher.kreucher@umich.edu). Senior Systems Engineer at Integrity Applications Incorporated in Ann Arbor, MI. Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) An information-based approach to sensor resource allocation , Dept. EECS, Feb. 2005.
- Clyde Shih (mfshih at gmail.com). Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Apple, Inc. Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) Unicast Internet Tomography , Dept. EECS, Jan. 2005.
- Huzefa Neemuchwala . Senior Director for Data and Digital Solutions, Medtronic. Thesis (Biomedical Engineering) (.pdf) Entropic graphs for image registration , Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Jan. 2005.
- Tom Kragh (thomas.kragh at baesystems.com). Senior Principal Research Engineer, BAE Systems Inc, NH. Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) : Tradeoffs and limitations in statistically based image reconstruction problems , Dept. EECS, Sept. 2002.
- Jia Li (li4 at oakland.edu). Professor at Oakland University, MI. PhD Thesis (Biomedical Engineering) (.pdf) : Three dimensional shape modeling: segmentation, reconstruction and registration , Dept. BME, Jan. 2002,
- Mahesh Godavarti (mgodavarti at ditechnetworks.com). Chief Scientist at Ditech Networks (mgodavarti at ditechnetworks.com). Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) : Antenna arrays in wireless communications, , Dept. EECS, July 2001.
- Riten (Robby) Gupta Research Staff TRW Inc, Los Angeles (Riten.Gupta at trw.com). Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) : Quantization Strategies for Low-Power Communications, , Dept. EECS, May 2001.
- Hyungsoo Kim, Research Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea (hns.kim at samsung.com, dearhs at hotmail.com). Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) : Adaptive target detection in radar imaging, , Dept. EECS, Jan. 2001.
- Bing Ma , Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV. (bingm@umich.edu). Thesis (EECS) (.pdf) : `Parametric and non-parametric approaches for multisensor data fusion Dept. EECS, Jan. 2001.
- Robinson Piramuthu , Principal Research Scientist and Director of Computer Vision at eBay Research Labs. Thesis (EECS) Robust fusion of MRI and ECT data, and acceleration of EM algorithm using proximal point approach , Dept. of EECS, May 2000.
- Anne Sauve , Lead Data Scientist at Cisco. PhD Thesis System modeling, sampling, interpolation and iterative reconstruction for the 3D Compton camera, Dept. of EECS, Jan. 2000.
- Steven Titus, CTO, BIS Global, Raleigh NC. Formerly Director of Engineering at Echo360, Raleigh NC. Thesis (EECS) Improved penalized likelihood image reconstruction of anatomically correlated emission computed tomography data , Dept. EECS, Oct. 1996. (Co-chair Jeffrey Fessler).
- Ilan Sharfer, Senior Algorithms Engineer, ECI Telecom, Israel. PhD Thesis Recursive algorithms for digital communications using the discrete wavelet transform , Dept. EECS, Oct. 1996
- Mohammad Usman, Vice President of Engineering, Masimo Corporation, Irvine CA (usman92691 at gmail.com). Thesis (EECS) Biased and unbiased Cramer-Rao bounds: computational issues and applications (.pdf) , Dept. EECS, Aug. 1994.
- Ron Delap, Dean, School of Engineering at Spring Arbor University. Formerly, Professor and Dean of Engineering and Engineering Technology, LeTourneau University, Longview TX. PhD Thesis ADEPT: Task Specific Adaptive Beamforming , Dept. EECS, May 1994.
- Nick Antoniadis, Professor of Computer Engineering, TEI of Epirus, Greece. Thesis (EECS) Time Delay Estimation for Inhomogeneous Poisson Processes in the Presence of Gaussian Noise , Dept. EECS, Oct. 1992.
- Bulent Baygun, Market Strategist and Quantitative Researcher at Laurion Capital. Formerly, Head of Interest Rate Strategy, BNP-Paribas, New York NY (bbaygun at bpa_su70.sbi.com). Thesis (EECS) Optimal Strategies and Tradeoffs for Joint Detection and Estimation , Dept. EECS, Oct. 1992.
- Nick Petrick, Deputy Director of the Division of Imaging and Applied Math and Director of the Image Analysis Laboratory, Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Thesis (EECS) Optimal Arrival Time Estimators for Electromagnetic Radiation Detectors , Dept. EECS, July 1992.
- John Gorman, Professional Consultant at JD Gorman Associates, Previously Program Manager (STO) at DARPA, Chief Scientist at SAIC. Thesis (EECS) Error Bounds in Constrained Estimation , Dept. EECS, June 1991.
- Ling Shao, Director of Imaging Physics, Philips Healthcare, CA. Thesis (Bioengineering Program) Mutual Information Optimization and Evaluation of Single Photon Computed Tomography , Bioengineering Program, Oct. 1989.
- Joong K. Kim, Professor at Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea (jkkim at yurim.skku.ac.kr). Thesis (EECS) Time Delay Estimation with Nuisance Parameters: Performance Approximation and Coarse Acquisition , Dept. EECS, Oct. 1989.
Former Master’s Students
- Tianqi Chen, PhD student UT Austin (Statistics MS)
- Tianci Liu, PhD Student Purdue (Statistics MS)
- Emily Wittrup (Data Science MS)
- Eric Shumaker, Research Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, (EECS MS)
- Alfredo Bravo (EECS G)
- Tony Van (Statistics MS)
- Jimmy Li (Math/EECS MS)
- Christine Kim (EECS G) poppins@umich.edu
- Kyle Herrity Applications Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor (EECS G) kherrity@umich.edu
- Xing Zhou (EECS G). Engineer at Northrup-Grumman, LA. xing.zhou.54 at gmail.com
- Nitin Nayer (EECS G) nnayar@umich.edu
- Yuezhou Jing (Statistics G)
- Sakina Zabuawala (EECS G) sakina@umich.edu
- Megan Flynn (EECS G) flynnm@umich.edu
- Sebastien Cerbourg (Financial Engineering G) Sebastien.Cerbourg at free.fr
- Arpit Almal (EECS G) aalmal@umich.edu
- Kashif Israr Siddiqui (EECS G) VoIP independent consultant (kashif@eecs.umich.edu)
- Chunyu (Frank) Yip (EECS G) chunyuy@umich.edu
- Krish Subramanian (EECS G) ksubramz@umich.edu
- Baptiste Poupard . Single Stock Volatility Trader, Head of Asia Flow at Societe Generale, Hong Kong (baptiste.poupard at polytechnique.org).
- Matthieu Colet . Consultant at MUREX, Paris France.
- Ram Kakarala, Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (RAMAKRISHNA at ntu.edu.sg).
- Adrian Yap, Hughes, Germantown MD ayap at hns.com.
- Agissilaos Ziotopoulos (aziot@engin.umich.edu)
Former Bachelor’s Students
- Phillip Yao UG ECE.
- Benoit DuFumier (Stagiare), Now PhD student at Neurospin, Saclay France
- Laurent Guillaume (Stagiare) laurent.guillaume at supelec.fr
- Adam Pocholsky (UG-UROP) apachols@umich.edu
- Liyan Huang (UG-UROP) liyanh@engin.umich.edu
- Smita Krishnaswamy (UG-UROP) smita@engin.umich.edu
- Alina Chu (UG-UROP) achu@engin.umich.edu
- Hafez Hadinejad (TH-Darmstadt) hafez@ient.rwth-aachen.de
- Richard Cheung (UM) rcheung@engin.umich.edu
- Christophe Guillouet (ECN) Christophe.Guillouet@supaero.fr
Other Students
- Jindan Yu University of Michigan (jindany@med.umich.edu), PhD Thesis (.pdf) : Transcript profiling of the cone-only Nrl-knockout retina using custom cDNA-microarrays: identification of novel targets of Nrl and of signaling pathways involved photoreceptor function , Dept. BME, Jan. 2004,
- Jeffrey O’Neill, PhD Dept EECS, Univ of Michigan.
- Anne-Emanuelle Badel , PhD at Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France
- Yong Zhang, PhD in BME at Univ of Michigan. Presently at KLA-TENCOR.
Collaborators
Recent Collaborators (<3 years)
Michigan: Tim Cernak, School of Pharmacy; Yang Chen, Dept Statistics; Walter Dempsey, Dept Biostatistics; Danai Koutra, Dept EECS-CSE; Hessam Madhavifar, Dept EECS-ECE; Raj Nadakuditi, Dept EECS-ECE; Indika Rajapakse, Dept Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics; Peter Song, Dept Biostatstics; Angela Violi, Dept Mechanical Engineering;
External:
Altman, Yoan Herriot Watt University, UK;
Bobra, Monica Stanford University;
Bresler, Yoram UIUC;
Carin, Lawrence Duke;
Coleman, Todd UCSD;
Davies, Mike Univ Edinburgh, UK;
DiFulvio, Angela UIUC;
Eldar, Yonina Wiessman Institute, Israel;
Fisher, John MIT;
Ginsburg, Geoffrey NIH;
Jo Handelsman Univ Wisconsin;
Kiyavash, Negar UIUC;
Lawrence, Earl Los Alamos National Laboratory;
McLaughlin, Steve Herriot Watt University, UK;
Mitra, Ubli USC;
Nowak, Rob Wisconsin;
Pazdernik, Karl Pacific Northwest National Laboratory;
Pilanci, Mert Stanford;
Parker, Joe CalTech;
Couillet, Romain Univ Grenoble, France;
Raginsky, Max UIUC;
Rajaratnam, Bala UC Davis;
Robinson, Ben Air Force Research Laboratory;
Sadler, Brian Army Research Laboratory;
Savarese, Silvio Stanford;
Smale, Steve UC Berkeley;
Stokes, Adam Univ Edinburgh, UK;
Tarokh, Vahid Duke;
Thelen, Brian Michigan Tech Research Institute;
Varshney, Pramod Univ of Syracuse;
Venturelli,Ophelia Univ Wisconsin;
Vince, Poor Princeton;
Wu, Jaijun Stanford University;
Zheng, Lizong MIT;
Zhou, Shuheng UC Riverside;
Past Collaborators (>3 years)
Dan Bliss, Arizona State University; Joachim Bohme, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum; Frank Bogun, Dept Cardiology, Univ of Michigan; Paul Carson, Dept Radiology, Univ of Michigan; David Castanon, Dept ECE Boston University; Clem Karl, Dept ECE Boston University; Neal Clinthorne, Dept Radiology Univ of Michigan; Neiyer Correal, Motorola; Steve Damelin, Univ of Michigan; David Donoho, Statistics, Stanford; Pierre Duhamel, CNRS, France; Douglas Engel, Dept Cell and Developmental Biology, Univ of Michigan; Selim Esedoglu, Dept Mathematics Univ of Michigan; .Jeffrey Fessler, Dept EECS Univ of Michigan; Rajiva Goyal, Internal Medicine F D M Plc; formerly at University Hospital at Univ Michigan; Simon Haykin, Mcmaster University; Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley; Keith Kastella, SRI; Spyros Kyperountas, Motorola; Sridhar Lakshmanan, Dept ECE, Univ. of Michigan – Dearborn; Stephane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique, France; Tom Marzetta, Lucent Bell Laboratories -Murray Hill; Christoph Mecklenbrauker, Telecommunicaions Research Center, Vienna; Eric Miller, Tufts; Eric Moulines, Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris; Rob Nowak, ECE University of Wisconsin; Mila Nikolova, Dept Mathematics, Ecole Normal Superieure, Cachan France; Mike Rabat, McGill University; Les Rogers, Nuclear Medicine Univ of Michigan; Harry Schmitt, Raytheon Inc.; Stuart Schwartz, Princeton University (Doctoral Thesis Advisor); Stefano Soatto, UCLA; Wayne Stark, EECS Univ of Michigan; David States, Dept Human Genetics, Univ of Michigan; Gil Strang, Mathematics, MIT; Anand Swaroop, National Institutes of Health; Christophe Vignat, Univ. of Paris XI, France; Angela Violi, Mechanical Engineering Univ of Michigan; Bill Williams, EECS Univ of Michigan; Bin Yu, UC Berkeley.