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Today's talk in UCL Electronic Engineering is by Miguel Rodrigues
and is at 16:00 in GS/102 66-72 Gower Street.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%">Sensing:
Perspective and State-of-the-Art</span></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%"
align="center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%">Miguel
Rodrigues</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%"
align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%">Department
of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%"
align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%">University
College London</span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><i><span> </span></i></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span>The
narrative – which can also be traced back to
pioneering work carried out at UCL in the early 20<sup>th</sup>
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.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span>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.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><i><span>Miguel
Rodrigues</span></i></b><span> 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.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%">He
received the <i>Licenciatura</i> 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.</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%">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.</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%">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.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a></pre>
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