Caltech DSP Group: Professor P. P. Vaidyanathan

P. P. Vaidyanathan Professor of Electrical Engineering Email contact: ppvnath@systems.caltech.edu
Prof. P. P. Vaidyanathan has been with the Electrical Engineering department of the California Institute of Technology since 1983. His main research interests are in digital signal processing, multirate systems and filter banks, wavelet transforms, signal processing for digital communications, genomic signal processing, and sparse array signal processing. Further details about the research in Prof. Vaidyanathan's group can be found in the publications link given below.
Resume and accomplishments Biography Prof. Vaidyanathan has authored more than 400 papers in journals and conferences, and is the author of three books: Multirate Systems and Filter Banks (Prentice Hall, 1993), Signal Processing and Optimization for Transceiver Systems (Cambridge, 2010), and The Theory of Linear Prediction (Morgan and Claypool, 2008). He was a recipient of the Award for excellence in teaching at the California Institute of Technology for the years 1983-1984, 1992-93 and 1993- 94. He also received the NSF's Presidential Young Investigator award in 1986. In 1989 he received the IEEE ASSP Senior Award for his paper on multirate perfect-reconstruction filter banks. In 1990 he was recipient of the S. K. Mitra Memorial Award from the Institute of Electronics and Telecommuncations Engineers, India, for his joint paper in the IETE journal. In 2009 he was chosen to receive the IETE students' journal award for his tutorial paper in the IETE Journal of Education. He was also the coauthor of a paper on linear-phase perfect reconstruction filter banks in the IEEE SP Transactions, for which the first author (Truong Nguyen) received the Young outstanding author award in 1993. Dr. Vaidyanathan was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1991. He received the 1995 F. E. Terman Award of the American Society for Engineering Education, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Co., for his contributions to engineering education, especially the book Multirate systems and filter banks published by Prentice Hall in 1993. He has given several plenary talks including at the IEEE ISCAS-04, WISP 2006, Sampta-01, Eusipco-98, SPCOM-95, and Asilomar-88 conferences on signal processing. He was chosen a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the year 1996-97. In 1999 he was chosen to receive the IEEE CAS Society's Golden Jubilee Medal. He is a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award for the year 2002. Personal details: P. P. Vaidyanathan was born in Calcutta, India on Oct. 16,1954. He received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in physics and the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in radiophysics and electronics, all from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1974, 1977 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982. He was a post doctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara from Sept. 1982 to March 1983. In March 1983 he joined the electrical engineering department of the Calfornia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor, and since 1993 has been a Professor of electrical engineering there. Dr. Vaidyanathan served as Vice-Chairman of the Technical Program committee for the 1983 IEEE International symposium on Circuits and Systems, and as the Technical Program Chairman for the 1992 IEEE International symposium on Circuits and Systems. He was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, an associate editor for the journal IEEE Signal Processing letters, and a consulting editor for the journal Applied and computational harmonic analysis. He has been a guest editor in 1998 for special issues of the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing and the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, on the topics of filter banks, wavelets and subband coders.
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