Namrata Vaswani
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Anderlik Professor of Engineering

Courtesy Professor of Mathematics

Iowa State University
3121 Coover Hall, Ames IA 50011

Phone: 515-294-4012. Email: firstname@iastate.edu

 

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1.      Ph.D. student(s) and or a postdoc

2.      CyMath volunteers: ISU Math/Stat and Engineering grad students, postdocs, faculty (CyMath is a K-12 Math mentoring/tutoring initiative)

Biography

Namrata Vaswani is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Anderlik Professor of Engineering at Iowa State University. She also holds a courtesy professorship in the department of Mathematics. She received a Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Delhi) in India in 1999. Her research interests lie at the intersection of statistical machine learning, and signal processing, and imaging (MRI and video analytics). Vaswani is also the director of the CyMath graduate student lead K-8 math mentoring/tutoring program at Iowa State.

She is a recipient of the Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professorship (2008-09); the Iowa State Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award at Iowa State (2014); the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award (2014) for her T-SP paper on Modified-CS co-authored with her graduate student Lu; the University of Maryland ECE Distinguished Alumni Award (2019), the Iowa State Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award (2019), the Anderlik Professorship (July 2019-present). Vaswani is an AAAS Fellow (class of 2023) and an IEEE Fellow (class of 2019).

Professional Service and Talks/Tutorials: Prof. Vaswani taught an invited short-course on PCA and Robust PCA for Modern Datasets at IIIT-Delhi under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) program of Government of India in December 2017. She recently also gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) workshop on Robust Subspace Learning. She has given invited seminars at universities around the world including a department colloquium at UIUC and a department seminar at CMU. Vaswani has served the SPS and IEEE in various capacities. She has served as an Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. She is the Lead Guest Editor for a Proceedings IEEE Special Issue on Rethinking PCA for Modern Datasets, and of a Signal Processing Magazine Feature Cluster on Exploiting Structure in High-dimensional Data Recovery. She served as the Chair of the Women in Signal Processing (WiSP) Committee, a steering committee member of SPS's Data Science Initiative, and an elected member of the SPTM and IVMSP Technical Committees.

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