CS Community: Postdoc position and Post-silicon Timing Characterization by Compressed Sensing

Richard Baraniuk is looking for a postdoc in the area of compressive sensing, sparse signal and image processing:

POSTDOC POSITIONS IN SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING AT RICE UNIVERSITY

The DSP group at Rice University is looking to hire energetic postdoctoral research associates for research in advanced signal and image processing.

One focus area is "Compressive Sensing" (CS), an emerging field based on the revelation that a small collection of nonadaptive (even random) linear projections of a compressible signal contain enough information for signal reconstruction and processing. The implications of CS are promising for many applications and enable the design of new kinds of analog-to-digital converters, imaging systems, cameras, and distributed source coding algorithms for sensor networks. Another focus area is low-dimensional models for signals and images based on nonlinear manifolds in high-dimensional spaces. Applications include image registration, pattern recognition, computer vision, and visualization. We have secured funding to explore the theory and practice of many of these from NSF, DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, and Texas
Instruments.

The Rice DSP group couples a fun, collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities on a beautiful campus in the US's 4th largest city. Recent DSP PhD graduates and postdocs have gone on to leading positions in academia (faculty positions at georgia tech, university of michigan, duke university, columbia university, and several leading universities in europe) and industry (MERL, microsoft research, google, texas instruments, national instruments, and qualcomm, among others).

For more information on the Rice DSP group, see:
dsp.rice.edu
dsp.rice.edu/cs
www.ece.rice.edu
www.rice.edu

For more information on Houston, which was recently ranked #1 city in the US to live, work, and play, see:
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2008/05/2008-best-city-houston.html

Candidates should have or be close to finishing a PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field.

Candidates should send their CV, a research statement outlining their expertise and interests, any supplemental information, and a list of three references with full contact information to:

Elizabeth Hickman
DSP Administrator
ECE Department MS-380
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005

Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

also of interest at Rice (but no paper) the following title:

D. Shamsi, P. Boufounos, F. Koushanfar. “Post-silicon Timing Characterization by Compressed Sensing.” IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2008, in press.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, just before reaching Enceladus for a 50 km flyby.