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
Amin Arbabian integrated circuits and systems and electromagnetic interfaces 
Ayfer Özgur Aydin wireless networks 
Nicholas Bambos high-performance networking, autonomic computing, service engineering  
Stephen Boyd convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, circuit design 
John M. Cioffi communications signal processing, coding and their applications to data transmission and storage 
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 
Sachin Katti network coded wireless architecture, networked wireless systems 
Sanjay Lall dynamical systems and control theory  
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 
Marco Pavone development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with a particular emphasis on large-scale robotic networks and autonomous aerospace vehicles 
Ada Poon N/A 
Balaji Prabhakar computer and wireless networks, algorithms, stochastic network theory  
Benjamin Van Roy stochastic control, machine learning, economics and finance  
Brian Wandell vision science, spanning topics from visual disorders, reading development in children, to digital imaging devices and algorithms for both magnetic resonance imaging and digital imaging 
Tsachy Weissman information theory, statistical signal processing  
Benard Widrow artificial neural networks, adaptive filters and antenna arrays  
 
Projects:
Active Queue Management
Approximate Dynamic Programming for Linear Convex Stochastic Control
Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Control for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Blind Portfolio Auctions
CMOS 60GHz Beamforming Circuit Design for Active Imaging Application
DC-TCP: Efficient Packet Transport for the Commoditized Data Center
Delay-Rate Tradeoff for Ergodic Interference Alignment
Directed Regression
Message Passing for Matrix Factorization
Miniature and Mass-Producible Fluorescence Microscopes for Biomedical Imaging
Multi-Commodity Flow Models for Dynamic Energy Management
Performance Bounds and Suboptimal Policies for Stochastic Control
Quantifying the Influence of Online Media
Quantitative Models for Security Risk Management in Information Technology-Intensive Organizations
R2D2: Rapid and Reliable Data Delivery in Data Centers
Reservoir Management Based on Approximate Dynamic Programming
Wyner-Ziv Coding of Video