Research Areas : Information Systems

Information Systems research focuses on the development and application of mathematical models, techniques and algorithms for information processing, communication, and storage, broadly construed.

Faculty Research Focus
Nicholas Bambos high-performance networking, autonomic computing, service engineering  
Stephen Boyd convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, circuit design 
Tom M. Cover network information theory, universal data compression and portfolio theory, information feedback, physical aspects of information  
Abbas El Gamal distributed information processing; digital imaging  
John T. Gill, III complexity, probabilistic computation, data compression, error control codes 
Bernd Girod image and video processing, video coding algorithms, networked multimedia systems  
Andrea Goldsmith wireless systems and networks 
Robert M. Gray data compression, image processing, information and communication theory  
Ramesh Johari N/A 
Jure Leskovec mining and modeling large social and information networks 
Andrea Montanari modern coding theory; inference in graphical models and message passing algorithms; random counting/optimization problems; statistical mechanics 
Dwight Nishimura medical imaging systems  
Brad Osgood geometric analysis in mathematics and engineering  
Arogyaswami Paulraj wireless and mobile communications systems, antenna array processing  
John M. Pauly magnetic resonance imaging, image reconstruction, physics of data acquisition 
Balaji Prabhakar computer and wireless networks, algorithms, stochastic network theory  
Benjamin Van Roy stochastic control, machine learning, economics and finance  
Tsachy Weissman information theory, statistical signal processing  
Benard Widrow artificial neural networks, adaptive filters and antenna arrays  
 
Projects:
Active Queue Management
Wyner-Ziv Coding of Video