Date:
February 2012
Home Address:
Eilat 10 Apt. 1,
Haifa, Israel
Personal Background:
Born on January 25, 1973 in Toronto, Canada. Moved to Israel in August, 1979. Married with four children: Yonatan (4/7/98), Moriah (15/8/02) , Tal (25/9/05) and Noa (26/8/11).
Education:
Tel-Aviv University, Israel:
Bachelor of Science in Physics Magna Cum Laude, 1995.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Summa Cum Laude, 1996.
Master of Science equivalent in Electrical Engineering, 1995 - 1996.
Direct course towards Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, 1996.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA:
September 1998 - December 2001: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D.
Thesis: "Quantum Signal Processing''
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Alan V. Oppenheim
Minor: Mathematics
Professional Experience:
January 2010 - Present:
Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
August 2009 - Present:
Visiting Professor at the Statistics and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford.
June 2005 - January 2010:
Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
July 2002 - Present:
Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
September 2002 - June 2005:
Senior Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
June 2002 - August 2002:
Visiting Scientist at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
January 2002 - June 2002:
Postdoctoral associate with the Digital Signal Processing Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
September 1998 - December 2001:
Research associate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
October 1996 - August 1998:
Research associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University.
Professional Activities:
Conference Chair:
Technical Co-chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,(CAMSAP) 2007.
Co-chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,(CAMSAP) 2009.
Technical Co-Chair, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2009.
Organizing committee of the workshop on Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering, IPAM, 2010.
Chair of the Compressive Sampling track in the BIRS Sampling and Reconstruction workshop, 2010.
Organizing committee of the workshop Sparse Representations and Efficient Sensing of Data, Dagstuhl, 2011.
Technical Co-Chair, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2011.
Tutorial Co-Chair, International Conference on on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011.
Technical Co-Chair, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications,
2013.
Program Committee Member:
Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, 2005.
Technical Program Committee, International Symp. on Inf. Theory, 2005.
Technical Program Committee, European Signal Processing Conference, 2007.
Technical Program Committee, International Symp. on Inf. Theory, 2008.
Scientific Committee, 1st IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Info. Processing, 2008.
Technical Program Committee, European Signal Processing Conference, 2008.
Technical Program Committee, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2009.
Technical Program Committee, Ninth Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science, AQIS 2009.
Technical Program Committee, International Symp. on Inf. Theory, 2010.
Technical Program Committee, Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2011.
Technical Program Committee, International Symp. on Inf. Theory, 2012.
IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods technical committee member, 2005-2010.
IEEE Bio Imaging and Signal Processing technical committee.
Organizer of a special session: "Convex Analysis Methods for Signal Processing," ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France.
Organizer of a special session: "Estimation and Detection", Asilomar 2006.
Organizer of a special session: "Compressed Sensing," Sampta 2009.
Organizer of a special session: "Compressed Sensing," CAMSAP 2009.
Organizer of a special session: "Recent Advances in Sampling Theory: Applications to Imaging Systems," SIAM Conference on Imaging Science 2010.
Organizer of a special session: "Compressed Sensing," Sampta 2011.
Editor:
Guest Editor for the Journal of Applied Signal Processing special issue on "Frames and Overcomplete Representations in Signal Processing, Communications, and Information Theory".
Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing special issue on "Convex Optimization Methods for Signal Processing".
Guest Editor for the Hindawi Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking special issue on "Optimization Techniques in Wireless Communications".
Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing special issue on "Compressive Sensing ".
Guest Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine special issue on "Convex Optimization for Signal Processing".
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2005-2009.
Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, 2006-2009.
Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), 2007-2010.
Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS).
Editor for Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing.
Other:
Faculty representative on the Technion Board of Governors.
Member of the Technion Interdisciplinary Committee for Graduate Studies in Applied Mathematics.
Member of the Technion Committee for Academic Degrees.
Member of the Rothschild Fellowships Committee.
Honors and Awards:
1992-1996: Special honors program for outstanding students, under the tutelage of Prof. Liebowitz in Tel-Aviv University. As part of this program I studied towards two B.Sc.
degrees simultaneously in both EE and Physics.
1992-1996: Stipend for outstanding students, Tel-Aviv University.
Summer 1994: Selected to participate in the De-Shalit research program at the Weitzman Institute and elected an outstanding participant.
1995: Tel-Rad scholarship.
1993-1996: Cited on the Dean's list for academic achievement.
1996: Admitted to the direct course towards a Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University.
1998: Walter A. Rosenblith Fellowship for study in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
2000: IBM Research Fellowship.
2002: Career Development Chair - Technion.
2002: Horev Fellow in the Leaders of Science and Technology Program at the Technion.
2003: Alon Fellow.
2004: Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.
2005: Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship.
2005: Best Student Paper Award IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) (Awarded to my student A. Wiesel; joint paper with S. Shamai).
2006: Reviewer Appreciation Award for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
2007: Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research.
2007: Young Author Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Awarded to my student A. Wiesel; joint paper with S. Shamai).
2008: Hershel Rich Innovation Award.
2008: Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, Haifa Municipality.
2008: Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2008: Technion outstanding lecture award.
2008: Best Student Paper Award IEEE Israel (Awarded to my student M. Mishali; joint paper with J. Tropp).
2009: Technion's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2010: Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation.
2011: Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences.
2011: Selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel.
2012: Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer.
2012: Best Student Paper Award IEEE Conference on Signal Processing (Awarded to Yuejie Chi; joint paper with R. Calderbank).
2012: Selected to the Israel Committee for Higher Education (MALAG).
Research Interests:
My research interests include sampling methods and A/D design, compressed sensing, detection and estimation theory, optimization for signal processing, signal processing and optimization for communication systems, signal processing for optics, computational biology.
Teaching Experience:
Undergraduate Courses (044198) Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (046201) Introduction to Random Signal Processing and the Graduate Courses (049033) Generalized Sampling Methods (049029) Advanced Seminar In Signal Processing and Communications.
Invited Plenaries:
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Mexico, December 2005.
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
Research Association on Mathematical Programming, Tokyo, Japan, October 2008.
Sampling and Reconstruction: Applications and Advances, Banff, November 2010.
DSP Symposium, Tel Aviv, June 2011.
The Israel Machine Vision Conference, February 2012.
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, June 2012.
International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Melbourne, July 2012.
Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor, USA, August 2012.
Invited Talks:
HP-MIT Wireless Networking Initiative Kick-off, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2002.
Quantum Information Conference, QUBIT, April 2003.
Conference in Honor of Asher Peres' 70th Birthday, February 2004.
ETH-Technion Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2004.
Zurich Communications Seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2004.
Israel Physical Society Meeting, December 2004.
Israel Statistical Association, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, May 2005.
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Mexico, December 2005.
21st European Conference on Operational Research, Iceland, July 2006.
UCSD Information Theory and Applications Workshop, January 2007.
International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Ontario, Canada, August 2007.
Minerva Optimization Center, Technion, Oct. 2007.
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Virgin Islands, December 2007.
Workshop on Optimization and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, December, 2007.
Panel on Convex Optimization in Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Structured Decompositions, Germany, December, 2008.
Compressed Sensing Workshop, Duke, Durham USA, February, 2009.
UCSD Information Theory and Applications Workshop, February 2010.
Sparsity and Computation, Bonn, Germany June 2010.
Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering, IPAM, UCLA, 2010.
Compressed Sensing Track, BIRS 2010.
IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, 2010.
UCSD Information Theory and Applications Workshop, February 2011.
Sparse and Low Rank Approximation, Banff, March 2011.
Mathematics and Image Analysis, Paris, January 2012.
Invited Seminars:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, February 2001.
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, April 2001.
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, August 2001.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 2001.
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, February 2002.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2002.
Stanford University, California, April 2002.
University of California Berkeley, California, April 2002.
Electrical Engineering Seminar, Technion, March 2003.
Physics Seminar, Technion, April 2003.
Hebrew University, Israel, June 2003.
Technical University of Denmark, December 2003.
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2004.
Operations Research Seminar, Technion, May 2004.
Hebrew University, Israel, June 2004.
University of Duisburg, Germany, August 2004.
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, January 2005.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2005.
University of California, Los Angeles, August 2006.
University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, January 2007.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 2007.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2007.
Stanford University, California, July 2007.
Hebrew University, Israel, February 2008.
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, March 2008.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 2008.
Hebrew University, Israel, June 2008.
Weizmann Institute, Israel, July 2008.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February, 2009.
University of California Berkeley, California, September 2009.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 2009.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, September 2009.
HP Labs, Palo Alto, California, September 2009.
Stanford University, California, October 2009.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, October 2009.
University of California, Los Angeles, California, October 2009.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 2009.
Rochester University, Rochester, New York, November 2009.
Columbia University, New York, November 2009.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2009.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, December 2009.
Stanford University, California, January 2010.
Qualcomm, San Diego, California, January 2010.
University of California, Davis, California, February 2010.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, March 2010.
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, March 2010.
University at Illinois of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2010.
Telegant Systems, Sunnyvale, California, May 2010.
Aquantia, Milpitas, California, May 2010.
Agilent, Santa Clara, California, June 2010.
Google, Mountain View, California, July 2010.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 2010.
John-Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2010.
General Electric Global Research Center, New York, September 2010.
Agilent, Santa Rosa, September 2010.
Elta Systems, Israel, October 2010.
Stanford University, California, October, 2010.
University of California, Los Angeles, California, December 2010.
Ericsson, San Jose, California, December 2010.
University of California Berkeley, California, March 2011.
Sampling Theory and Appications, Singapore, May 2011.
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, Jan. 2012.
Tutorials:
Numerical Optimization Methods for Robust Parameter Estimation, Eusipco 2006, Florence, Italy.
Improving on Maximum Likelihood Estimation: New Tools For Old Problems, ICASSP 2007, Hawaii.
Beyond Bandlimited Sampling: Nonideal Sampling, Smoothness and Sparsity, ICASSP 2009, Taiwan.
Structured Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Applications, ISBI 2011, Chicago, USA.
Xampling: From Theory to Hardware of Sub-Nyquist Sampling, ICASSP 2011, Prague.
Sub-Nyquist Sampling: From Theory to Applications, ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Working Experience:
ComWiz Communications, Israel, 1996.
Motorola Communications Inc, Israel, 1997 - 1998. Consulting services in the fields of communications and audio processing.
Lenslet, Israel, 2004 - 2006. Consulting services in the field of signal processing.
Refael, Israel, 2008-2009. Consulting services in the field of estimation and sampling.
Texas Instruments, Israel, 2009. Consulting services in the field of sampling.
Elbit, Israel, 2011-present. Consulting services in the field of sampling and communications.
Grants:
HASSIP - Harmonic Analysis and Statistics for Signal and Image Processing,
(1/10/02-30/9/06), (Total: 929,678 EUR).
NEWCOM - Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications, (1/3/04-31/12/06), (98,072 EUR).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation, "Least-Squares Inner Product Shaping: Theory and Applications to Communications Systems", (1/10/04-30/9/07), (Total: 540,000 NIS).
MAFAT - Ministry of Defense, "Optical Quantum Communication",
(1/11/04-1/8/07), (Total: 350,265 NIS).
MAFAT - Ministry of Defense, "Optical Sampling of Several Band-Limited Signals",
(1/8/05-31/10/06), (Total: 256,410 NIS).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Multi-Element Communications under Uncertainty Conditions: An Information Theoretic and Signal Processing Interplay", (2007-2011), (Total: 300,000$).
Elias Fund for Medical Research - "Changes Caused by Biomechanical Forces to the Heart Cells",
(1/8/07-31/1/08), (Total: $10,000).
NEWCOM++ - Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications
(1/1/08-1/1/11), (Total: 327,627 EUR).
RBNI- Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute - "Utilization of Quantum Dots for Tracking Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived Cardiomyocytes Transplanted Into the Infracted Myocardium in Rats",
(1.07.08-30.09.09), (Total: 40,000$).
MAGNET GE - "Multi Channel Beamformer for Hand Carried Premium Performance Echocardiography",
(1/9/08-1/9/09), (Total: 1,825,200 NIS).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Dynamic spike train decoding and multisensory integration
by biological neural networks", (2008-2011), (Total: 540,000 NIS).
TASP - "Automatic Parameter Tuning For Inverse Problems, With Application to
Automatic Visual Systems", (1.9.2009-31.8.2009), (Total: 30,000$).
CIS Seed Research Grant - "Sub-Nyquist Sampling to Enable New Paradigms in Wireless Network Design,"
with Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (1.7.2010-30.6.2011), (Total: 60,000$).
Michael Bruno Memorial Award - (1.10.2010-30.9.2013), (Total: 120,000$).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Wideband Low-Rate Converters: Compressed Sensing of Analog Signals",
(2010-2014), (Total: 960,000 NIS).
Google Research Award - "Semi-supervised regression with auxiliary knowledge", (2010), (Total: 45,000$).
BSF
Program for Transformative Science - "Defying Nyquist in Wireless Networks", with Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, (2011-2014), (Total: 300,000$).
