[Nets-seminars] Talk 15th March 16:00 GS/102

[Richard G. Clegg]

Next week's talk in UCL Electronic Engineering is by Miguel Rodrigues 
and will take place at 16:00 in GS/102 on Friday 15th March.


Sensing: Perspective and State-of-the-Art

Miguel Rodrigues

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

University College London

The narrative – which can also be traced back to pioneering work carried 
out at UCL in the early 20th century – articulates how intersections 
between the disciplines of information theory, communications theory and 
statistical signal processing is revolutionizing the theory and practice 
of sensing. It also describes major historical milestones ranging from 
the now well-established Shannon-Nyquist sensing paradigm to more recent 
state-of-the-art sensing modalities, including compressive sensing, 
structured compressive sensing and adaptive sensing.

The narrative also covers work on the foundations and applications of a 
new principled “communications-inspired” sensing paradigm, which 
leverages the interplay between key quantities in information theory and 
estimation theory, carried out in collaboration with members of the 
Universities of Cambridge, Princeton and Duke. This sensing paradigm is 
shown to lead to cutting-edge results in various domains, including 
compressive imaging.

Bio:

Miguel Rodrigues is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Electronic 
and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK. He was 
previously with the Department of Computer Science, University of Porto, 
Portugal, rising through the ranks from Assistant to Associate 
Professor, where he also led the Information Theory and Communications 
Research Group at Instituto de Telecomunicações – Porto.

He received the Licenciatura degree in Electrical Engineering from the 
University of Porto, Portugal in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic 
and Electrical Engineering from University College London, UK in 2002. 
He has carried out postdoctoral research work both at UCL, Cambridge 
University, as well as Princeton University, USA, in the period 2003 to 
2007. He has also held visiting appointments at Cambridge University, 
Princeton University, and Duke University, USA in the period 2007 to 2012.

His research work, which lies in the general areas of information 
theory, communications and signal processing, has led to over 100 
publications in journals and conferences to date.

Dr. Rodrigues was honored with the IEEE Information Theory and 
Communications Societies Joint Paper Award 2011 for his work on 
“Wireless Information-Theoretic Security” (jointly with M. Bloch, J. 
Barros and S. McLaughlin). Dr. Rodrigues was also the recipient of the 
Prize Engenheiro António de Almeida, the Prize Engenheiro Cristiano 
Spratley, and the Merit Scholarship from the University of Porto.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/