Lav Varshney
Optimal Information Storage: Nonsequential Sources and Neural Channels, S.M. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, June 2006
Unreliable and Resource-Constrained Decoding, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, March 2010
varshney@illinois.edu

Lav Varshney received the B.S. degree with honors in electrical and computer engineering (magna cum laude) from Cornell University in 2004. His PhD was completed as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

As an instructor in Spring 2009 and a teaching assistant in Fall 2006, Lav taught 6.003 (Signals and Systems) and 6.972 (Algorithms for Estimation and Inference). He was a visitor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2006, a visiting scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2005, a research engineering intern at Syracuse Research Corporation during 2002-2003, and an engineering intern at Sensis Corporation in 2001.

Lav is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, IEEE, and SIAM. He received the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering S. M. Thesis, the Capocelli Prize at the 2006 Data Compression Conference, the Best Student Paper Award at the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference, and was a winner of the IEEE 2004 Student History Paper Contest.