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Research Interests:

Computational and applied mathematics, geometric methods for analysis of large data sets, data analysis on manifolds, optimal low-dimensional systems and modeling, optimization and mathematical modeling, non-linear signal and image processing with applications in electrical engineering, finance, computer science, statistics, chemistry and atmospheric sciences.

An Overview of Current and Past Research:

As a graduate research assistant at the Department of Mathematics, I am involved in conducting fundamental research in mathematics of large data sets and nonlinear signal processing. 

This involves design of new Radial Basis Functions, basic and efficient contributions to the literature of constructing nonlinear models from high-dimensional scattered data. The developed methods utilize RBFs and do not require adjustment of any ad hoc parameters. The extension of the algorithms to multivariate cases and real-time implementation are also considered. The developed algorithms have a wide range of applications such as modeling data on manifolds and prediction of financial time-series.

As a graduate research assistant/associate at the digital signal/image processing laboratory at electrical engineering, I worked on biological inspired adaptive methods for object classification in changing environments from multi-aspect views and studied object identification using Zernike moments and neural networks. I learned various feature extraction schemes and neural network paradigms and other signal processing tools such as wavelets and different variations of the Kalman filter.

Presentations:

Geometric Representation of High Dimensional Scattered Data as Graph of Functions”, Workshop on Applications of Topology in Science and Engineering, Mathematical Science Research Institute, University of California-Berkeley, (Berkeley, CA), September 2006.    

Parsimonious Geometric Modeling of Financial Instruments”, SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering, (Boston, MA), July 2006.

Examples of Compactly Supported functions for Radial Basis Function Approximations”, International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications, and International Conference on Scientific Computing, (Las Vegas, NV), June 2006.

A New Spatio-Temporal Resource Allocation Network (ST-RAN)”, Seminar in Geometric Methods for the Analysis of High-Dimensional Data, CSU, (Fort Collins, CO), Spring 2005.

“Low Order Nonlinear Models”, Information Science and Technology Colloquium, CSU, (Fort Collins, CO), April 2005. (Poster)

“Radial Basis Function Model Order Determination Using Statistical Hypothesis Testing”, Third Annual Intermountain/Southwest Conference on Industrial and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Arizona State University, (Tempe, AZ), February 2004. (Poster)

“Target Identification using Zernike Moments and Neural Networks”, SPIE conference on Automatic Target Recognition XI, (Orlando, FL), April 2001.

“Comparison of Confidence Level of Different Classification Paradigms for Underwater Target Discrimination”, SPIE conference on Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Mine like Targets VI, (Orlando, FL), April 2001.

Summer Schools and Technical Workshops:

Workshop on Topological Methods in Combinatorics, Computational Geometry, and the Study of Algorithms, Mathematical Science Research Institute, University of California-Berkeley, (Berkeley, CA), October 2-6, 2006. Supported by an MSRI award. 

Workshop on Data Driven Modeling, Department of Mathematics, CSU, (Fort Collins, CO), September 28, 2006.

Workshop on Applications of Topology in Science and Engineering, Mathematical Science Research Institute, University of California-Berkeley, (Berkeley, CA), September 18-22, 2006. Supported by an MSRI award.    

Graduate Summer School: Data Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle, Mathematical Science Research Institute, University of California-Berkeley, (Berkeley, CA), July 16-29, 2006. Supported by an MSRI award.

Multi-scale Methods and Statistics, Graybill Workshop, CSU, (Fort Collins, CO), June 11-13, 2006.

Graduate Summer School: Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High Dimensional Data, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, (Los Angeles, CA), July 11-29, 2005. Supported by IPAM.

Statistics in Information Theory, Graybill Workshop, CSU, (Fort Collins, CO), June 2-3, 2005.

Workshop on Geometry and Symmetry in Numerical Computation, CSU, (Fort Collins, CO), August 8-10, 2005.