Theses (reverse chronological within category)

PhD

• Edge-Resolved Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
  Sheila P. (Werth) Seidel, Ph.D. thesis, BU, September 2022.
• Computational Particle Beam Microscopy
  Minxu Peng, Ph.D. thesis, BU, August 2022.
• Occluder-Aided Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
  Charles Saunders, Ph.D. thesis, BU, May 2021.
• Probabilistic Modeling for Single-Photon Lidar
  Joshua Rapp, Ph.D. thesis, BU, January 2020.
  • 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award
  • BU 2020 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Dissertation Award
• Computational Imaging with Small Numbers of Photons
  Dongeek Shin, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, February 2016.
• Computational Time-Resolved Imaging
  G. Ahmed Kirmani, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, February 2015.
  • Jin-Au Kong Doctoral Thesis Award, 2nd place (best MIT PhD dissertation in electrical engineering)
• Aggregation and Influence in Teams of Imperfect Decision Makers
  Joong Bum Rhim, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, June 2014.
• Compact and Low-Power Computational 3D Sensors for Gestural Input
  Andrea Colaço, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, June 2014.
• Quantization in Acquisition and Computation Networks
  John Z. Sun, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, May 2013.
• Accelerating Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Unifying Sparse Models and Multiple Receivers
  Daniel S. Weller, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, March 2012.
• Unreliable and Resource-Constrained Decoding
  Lav R. Varshney, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, March 2010.
  • Jin-Au Kong Award, Honorable Mention (best MIT PhD dissertation in electrical engineering)
• Improvements in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Excitation Pulse Design
  Adam C. Zelinski, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, September 2008.
• Economical Sampling of Parametric Signals
  Julius Kusuma, Ph.D. thesis, MIT, August 2006.
• Beyond Traditional Transform Coding
  Vivek K Goyal, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, December 1998.
  • Winner of the 1998 Eliahu Jury Award (for "Outstanding Achievement in Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing")

SM/MS/MEng

• Towards Saturation of Detection Efficiency in Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors at 4.2 K Using Local Helium Ion Irradiation
  Glenn Martinez, M.S. thesis, BU, August 2021.
• Low Ion Dose Imaging in the Helium Ion Microscope Under Neyman Type A Statistics
  Jeff Craley, M.S. thesis, BU, August 2015.
• Computational 3D and Reflectivity Imaging with High Photon Efficiency
  Dongeek Shin, S.M. thesis, MIT, June 2014.
• Algorithms for 3D Time-of-Flight Imaging
  Jonathan Mei, M.Eng. thesis, MIT, June 2013.
  • 2nd Place, 2013 David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize (best MIT MEng thesis in electrical engineering)
• Photon-Limited Time of Flight Depth Acquisition: New Parametric Model and Its Analysis
  Vahid Montazerhodjat, S.M. thesis, MIT, February 2013.
• Optimal Quantization for Sparse Reconstruction with Relaxed Belief Propagation
  Ulugbek Kamilov, M.S thesis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, March 2011.
• Drift Correction for Scanning-Electron Microscopy
  Michael T. Snella, M.Eng. thesis, MIT, September 2010.
• Quantization of Prior Probabilities in Bayesian Group Decision-Making
  Joong B. Rhim, S.M. thesis, MIT September 2010.
• Generalizations of Permutation Source Codes
  Ha Q. Nguyen, S.M. thesis, MIT, September 2009.
• Compressive Sensor Networks: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms
  John Z. Sun, S.M. thesis, MIT, September 2009.
• Functional Quantization
  Vinith Misra, M.Eng. thesis, MIT, June 2008.
  • Winner of the 2008 David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize (best MIT MEng thesis in electrical engineering)
• Mitigating Timing Noise in ADCs through Digital Post-Processing
  Daniel S. Weller, S.M. thesis, MIT, June 2008.
• Estimation of Channelized Features in Geological Media Using Sparsity Constraints
  Behnam Jafarpour, S.M. thesis, MIT, February 2008.
• Rate Control and Bit Allocation for JPEG Transcoding
  Ricky D. Nguyen, M.Eng. thesis, MIT, May 2007.
• Nonadaptive Lossy Encoding of Sparse Signals
  Ruby J. Pai, M.Eng. thesis, MIT, August 2006.
• Optimal Information Storage: Nonsequential Sources and Neural Channels
  Lav R. Varshney, S.M. thesis, MIT, June 2006.
  DOI: 1721.1/37851
  • Winner of the 2006 Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Prize (best MIT SM thesis in electrical engineering)
• Nonlinear Transform Coding with Lossless Polar Coordinates
  Demba E. Ba, S.M. thesis, MIT, June 2006.

BS Honors

• Mitigating Current Variation in Particle Beam Microscopy
  Luisa Maria Watkins, Senior Honors Thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering, BU, June 2021.