R EBECCA M. W ILLETT

Duke University

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

**** ******, *** *****, ******, NC 27708

http://people.ee.duke.edu/ willett

abpcid@r.postjobfree.com

R ESEARCH I NTERESTS

Imaging and network science for extracting information from high-dimensional data corrupted by noise,

missing elements or resulting from point processes, with applications to medical imaging, astronomy,

and social networks.

E DUCATION

Rice University, Houston, TX; M.S./Ph.D. program in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Depart-

ment; GPA: 4.03/4.00; Advisor Prof. Robert Nowak; M.S. in May 2002, Ph.D. in May 2005.

Duke University, Durham, NC; B.S.E. Double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science;

GPA: 3.95/4.00; Ranked 3 in a class of 230; Graduated with Distinction and Summa cum laude; May

2000.

New College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Admission to summer program awarded as a part of

Angier B. Duke Scholarship; summer 1999.

H ONORS AND AWARDS

IEEE Senior Member, 2011

AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award Recipient, 2010

DARPA Computer Science Study Group, 2007-present

NSF CAREER Award Recipient, 2007

Fellow of the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, 2004

Society of Women Engineers Caterpillar Scholarship, 2004

Invited panel member at the PAESMEM/Stanford Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering, 2004

Global Technology Leadership Symposium participant, 2003

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, 2000-2003

Rice University Presidential Scholarship Recipient, 2000-2004

Distinguished Texas Instruments Scholarship, 2000-2005

Duke University Charles Seager Award for Best Student Paper in Electrical Engineering, 2000

Duke University George Sherrerd III Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Electrical Engineering, 2000

Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship, 1996-2000

E MPLOYMENT H ISTORY

Duke University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Assistant Professor, Durham, NC,

2005-present

University of Wisconsin Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Visiting scholar,

Madison, WI, 2003-2005

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Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Graduate research assistant, Hous-

ton, TX, 2000-2003

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at the University of California Los Angeles, Fel-

low, Los Angeles, CA 2004

French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), Graduate student

intern, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 2003

General Electric Medical Systems Applied Sciences Laboratory, Graduate student intern, Waukesha,

WI, 2002

Lucent Technologies, Student intern, Lisle, IL, 2000

Hewlett-Packard, Student intern, Greeley, CO, 1998-1999

F UNDING

A Rigorous Statistical Framework for the Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and Execution, DARPA,

Co-PI with PI L. Carin, $1.6M, 7/1/2011 - 12/31/2012

Photon-limited Sensing and Surveillance, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, PI, $347K, 4/15/2011 -

4/14/2014

Sequential Prediction for Information Fusion and Control, AFOSR, PI with Co-PI M. Raginsky, $330K,

10/1/2012 - 9/30/2013

Knowledge Enhanced Compressive Measurement, DARPA via subaward from Hughes Research Labo-

ratories, PI of subaward, $548K, 3/3/2011 - 3/2/2012

Distributed Online Decision Making in Large Scale Networks, NSF, Co-PI with PI M. Raginsky, $445K,

9/1/2010 - 8/31/2013

Snapshot Raman Spectral Imager, ARO via subaward from Applied Quantum Technologies, PI of sub-

award, $260K, 1/12/2011 - 1/11/2013

Compressive HSI Measurements for ATR, NGA, Co-PI with PI L. Carin, $450K, 10/9/2009 - 10/8/2012

Chandra Cycle 12, Smithsonian Institution, PI, $10K, 5/13/2011 - 5/12/2012

Second-order Methods for Large-scale Optimization in Compressed Sensing, NSF, Co-PI with PI R.

Marcia, $219K, 12/15/2009 - 12/31/2012

Density Estimation and Anomaly Detection in Large Social Networks, ARO, PI, $300K, 6/1/2009 -

5/30/2012

Discrete Event Data Analysis, DARPA Computer Science Study Group (Young Investigator Award), PI,

$825K, 3/23/2006 - 4/30/2011

Data-Starved Inference on Point Processes, NSF CAREER Award, PI, $400K, 2/15/2007 - 1/31/2012

T EACHING AND E DUCATION

G RADUATE S TUDENT A DVISING

Peng Guan, MS anticipated 12/2012, Thesis title Online Markov Decision Processes with Kullback-

Leibler Control Cost

Zachary Harmany, PhD anticipated 5/2012, Thesis title Sparsity-Regularized Inverse Problems with

Applications to Photon-Limited Imaging and Video Reconstruction

Shirisha Reddy Chundi, MS anticipated 5/2012, Project title Online Photon-Limited Video Reconstruc-

tion with Low-Rank Background Subtraction

Kalyani Krishnamurthy, PhD 5/2011, Thesis title Spectral Image Processing Theory and Methods:

Reconstruction, Target Detection, and Fundamental Performance Bounds

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Rubenka Bandyopadhyay, MS 12/2011, Project title Video Reconstruction using Compressive Coded

Apertures

Viola Gomes, MS 12/2011, Project title Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction Using Gaussian Mixture

Models and MAP-EM Algorithm

D IVERSITY P ROMOTION AND K-12 O UTREACH

Short course instructor at Institute for Advanced Studies Women in Mathematics Program on Sparsity

and Computation, 2011

Workshop presenter at the Sally Ride Science Festival, educating girls about careers in science and

engineering, 2005 and 2007

Workshop presenter at Duke FEMMES (Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering and Science)

Program, 2006 - present

Digital technology short course developer and lecturer at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy,

in partnership with the In nity Project, 2004

C OURSES D EVELOPED

ECE 189: Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (undergraduate level)

ECE 282: Digital Signal Processing: Estimation Theory (graduate level)

ECE 299: Wavelets and Multiscale Analysis (graduate level)

S ERVICE

S CHOLARLY C OMMUNITY S ERVICE

Local Scienti c Coordinator for 2013-2014 SAMSI Program on Low-Dimensional structure in High-

Dimensional systems (LDHD)

2011 Duke Workshop on Sensing and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data, co-organizer

IEEE SPS Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, 2011 - present

IEEE SPS Bioimaging and Signal Processing (BISP) Technical Committee, 2011 - present

EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing, 2011 - present

Publicity Chair for the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2007

Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2012 - present

Reviewer for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), IEEE Transactions on Sig-

nal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions of Medical Imag-

ing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in

Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,

Speech, and Signal Processing, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Information Processing in

Sensor Networks (IPSN), International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Journal of

the Optical Society of America A, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Institute of Physics

Inverse Problems, Applied Optics, Astrophysical Journal

U NIVERSITY S ERVICE

Engineering Faculty Council, 2011 - present

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Search Committee, 2011 - 2012

Af liate of Duke Network Analysis Center, 2010 - present

Member of Duke Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Science, 2010 - present

Member of Executive Board of Duke Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, 2008 - present

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Faculty Associates Program (program fostering interactions between faculty and undergraduates by pair-

ing faculty with residence halls), 2006-2007

D EPARTMENT S ERVICE

Department Strategic Planning Committee, 2011 - present

Faculty Search Committees, 2008 - present

Graduate Studies Committee, 2006 - present

Thesis Committees (served on nearly 100 different PhD, MS, and qualifying exam committees), 2005 -

present

Undergraduate Awards Committee, 2010 - present

Staff Hiring Committees, 2008 - present

I NVITED R ESEARCH S EMINARS AND L ECTURES

Invited speaker at SLAC Conference on Progress on Statistical Issues in Searches: A Conference In-

volving Statistical Issues in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Photon Science, 2012.

Information Theory and Applications Workshop, 2012

1st International Traveling Workshop for Interacting Sparse Models and Technology (Plenary), 2012

Mathematics and Image Analysis, 2012

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Workshop on Large Data Sets in Medical Infor-

matics, 2011

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Workshop on Large Graphs: Modeling, Algo-

rithms and Applications, 2011

Harvard University Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2011

MIT Computer Science and Arti cial Intelligence Laboratory, 2011

Tutorial at OSA s Annual Meeting Frontiers in Optics, 2011

Defense Applications of Signal Processing, 2011

Workshop on Infusing Statistics and Engineering (WISE), 2011

Institute for Advanced Studies Program for Women and Mathematics (short course), 2011

Les Journ es Statistiques du Sud (short course), 2011

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Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2010

Naval Research Laboratories, 2010

Carnegie Mellon Statistics, 2009

Wavelets XIII at SPIE Optical Engineering, 2009

University of Wisconsin-Madison Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2009

Network Mapping and Measurement Conference & Workshop, 2009

Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009

Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, 2009

Princeton University Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2009

Duke University Compressed Sensing Workshop, 2009

Boston University Center for Information and Systems Engineering, 2008

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, Workshop on Internet Multiresolution Analysis;

Los Angeles, CA, 2008

MITACS/MASCOS Joint Workshop on Fusion, Mining and Security for Networks; Montreal, Canada,

2008

Network Mapping and Measurement Conference & Workshop, 2008

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Purdue University, 2006

University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005

North Carolina State University, 2005

Center for Embedded Network Sensing at UCLA; Los Angeles, CA, 2004

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, Workshop on Multiscale Geometric Methods in

Astronomical Data Analysis; Los Angeles, CA, 2004

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, Workshop on Multiscale Geometry in Image

Processing and Coding; Los Angeles, CA, 2004

European Signal Processing Conference; Vienna, Austria, 2004

SIAM Conference on Imaging Science; Salt Lake City, UT, 2004

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging; Arlington, VA, 2004

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems; Strasbourg, France, 2003

Harvard Workshop on Current Challenges in Multiscale Analysis in Astronomy; Boston, MA, 2003

American Astronomical Society Conference; Seattle, WA, 2003

J OURNAL P UBLICATIONS

[J1] J. Salmon, Z. Harmany, C. Deledalle, and R. Willett, Poisson noise reduction with non-local

pca, submitted to Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. arXiv:1206:0338, 2012.

[J2] P. Guan, M. Raginsky, and R. Willett, Online markov decision processes with Kullback-Leibler

control cost, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012.

[J3] E. Arias-Castro, J. Salmon, and R. Willett, Oracle inequalities and minimax rates for non-local

means and related adaptive kernel-based methods, accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on

Imaging Sciences. arXiv:1112:4434, 2011.

[J4] M. Raginsky, J. Silva, S. Lazebnik, and R. Willett, Near-minimax recursive density estimation on

the binary hypercube, submitted, based on 2008 NIPS paper by same authors. arXiv:1112.1450,

2011.

[J5] Z. Harmany, R. Marcia, and R. Willett, Spatio-temporal compressed sensing with coded aper-

tures and keyed exposures, submitted, based on 2008 ICASSP paper Compressive coded aper-

ture superresolution image reconstruction. arXiv:1111.7247, 2011.

[J6] K. Krishnamurthy, R. Willett, and M. Raginsky, Target detection performance bounds in com-

pressive imaging, submitted, based on 2010 ICASSP paper Hyperspectral target detection from

incoherent projections. arXiv:1112.0504, 2011.

[J7] M. Raginsky, R. Willett, C. Horn, J. Silva, and R. Marcia, Sequential anomaly detection in the

presence of noise and limited feedback, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in press,

based on 2009 ISIT paper Sequential Probability Assignment Via Online Convex Programming

Using Exponential Families and 2011 ICASSP paper Online anomaly detection with expert

system feedback in social networks. arXiv:0911.2904, 2011.

[J8] M. Raginsky, S. Jafarpour, Z. Harmany, R. Marcia, R. Willett, and R. Calderbank, Performance

bounds for expander-based compressed sensing in Poisson noise, IEEE Transactions on Signal

Processing, vol. 59, no. 9, arXiv:1007.2377, 2011.

[J9] Z. Harmany, R. Marcia, and R. Willett, This is SPIRAL-TAP: Sparse Poisson Intensity Recon-

struction ALgorithms Theory and Practice, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. PP,

no. 99, DOI:10.1109/TIP.2011.2168410, arXiv:1005.4274, 2011.

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[J10] G. A. Ybarra, L. M. Collins, L. G. Huettel, K. D. Coonley, H. Z. Massoud, J. A. Board, S. A. Cum-

mer, R. Roy Choudhury, M. R. Gustafson, N. M. Jokerst, M. A. Brooke, R. M. Willett, J. Kim,

and M. S. Absher, Integrated sensing and information processing theme-based redesign of the

undergraduate electrical and computer engineering curriculum at duke university, Advances in

Engineering Education, vol. 2, no. 4, 2011.

[J11] K. J. Borkowski, S. P. Reynolds, D. A. Green, U. Hwang, R. Petre, K. Krishnamurthy, and R. Wil-

lett, Radioactive scandium in the youngest galactic supernova remnant g1.9+0.3, The Astro-

physical Journal Letters, vol. 724, no. 2, doi:10.1088/2041-8205/724/2/L161, arXiv:1006.3552,

2010.

[J12] K. Krishnamurthy, M. Raginsky, and R. Willett, Multiscale photon-limited spectral image re-

construction, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 619 645, 2010.

[J13] M. Raginsky, R. Willett, Z. Harmany, and R. Marcia, Compressed sensing performance bounds

under Poisson noise, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 3990 4002,

arXiv:0910.5146, 2010.

[J14] C. Scott, G. Bellala, and R. Willett, The false discovery rate for statistical pattern recognition,

Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 3, pp. 651 677, arXiv:0901.4184, 2009.

[J15] J. Silva and R. Willett, Hypergraph-based anomaly detection in very large networks, IEEE

Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 563 569, 2009.

[J16] S. McCain, R. Willett, and D. Brady, Multi-excitation raman spectroscopy technique for uores-

cence rejection, Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 15, pp. 109**-*****, 2008.

[J17] R. Marcia, C. Kim, J. Kim, D. Brady, and R. Willett, Superimposed video disambiguation for

increased eld of view, Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 31, pp. 163**-*****, 2008.

[J18] M. Shankar, R. Willett, N. Pitsianis, T. Schulz, R. Gibbons, R. Te Kolste, J. Carriere, C. Chen,

D. Prather, and D. Brady, Thin infrared imaging systems through multi-channel sampling,

Applied Optics, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. B1 B10, 2008.

[J19] A. Wagadarikar, R. John, R. Willett, and D. Brady, Single disperser design for coded aperture

snapshot spectral imaging, Applied Optics, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. B44 B51, 2008.

[J20] M. Gehm, R. John, D. Brady, R. Willett, and T. Schultz, Single-shot compressive spectral imag-

ing with a dual-disperser architecture, Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 21, pp. 140**-*****, 2007.

[J21] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Minimax optimal level set estimation, IEEE Transactions on Image

Processing, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 2965 2979, 2007.

[J22] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Multiscale Poisson intensity and density estimation, IEEE Transac-

tions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 3171 3187, 2007.

[J23] R. Nowak, U. Mitra, and R. Willett, Estimating inhomogeneous elds using wireless sensor

networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 999 1006,

2004.

[J24] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Platelets: a multiscale approach for recovering edges and surfaces

in photon-limited medical imaging, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp.

332 350, 2003.

I NVITED PAPERS AND B OOK C HAPTERS

[I1] R. Willett and M. Raginsky, Poisson compressed sensing, in Proc. of Defense Applications of

Signal Processing, 2011.

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[I2] R. Willett, R. Marcia, and J. Nichols, Compressed sensing for practical optical systems: a

tutorial, Optical Engineering, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 072601 1 13, 2011.

[I3] R. Marcia, R. Willett, and Z. T. Harmany, Compressive optical imaging: Architectures and algo-

rithms, in Optical and Digital Image Processing Fundamentals and Applications, G. Cristobal,

P. Schelkens, and H. Thienpont, Eds. Wiley, 2011.

[I4] R. Willett, Multiscale-analysis of photon-limited astronomical images, in Statistical Challenges

in Modern Astronomy IV, 2007, vol. 371 of Astronomical Society of the Paci c Conference Series.

C ONFERENCE P UBLICATIONS

[C1] Z. T. Harmany, X. Jiang, and R. Willett, The value of multispectral observations in photon-

limited quantitative tissue analysis, in Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2012.

[C2] J. A. Salmon, R. Willett, and E. Arias-Castro, A two-stage denoising lter: The preprocessed

yaroslavsky lter, in Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2012.

[C3] Y. Xin, J. Huang, and R. Willett, Multiscale online tracking of manifolds, in Proc. Statistical

Signal Processing Workshop, 2012.

[C4] P. Guan, M. Raginsky, and R. Willett, Online markov decision processes with Kullback-Leibler

control cost, in Proc. American Control Conference.

[C5] J. Salmon, C.-A. Deledalle, R. Willett, and Z. Harmany, Poisson noise reduction with non-local

PCA, in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP),

2012.

[C6] K. Krishnamurthy, W. U. Bajwa, R. Willett, and R. Calderbank, Fast level set estimation from

projection measurements, in Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2011.

[C7] E. Wang, J. Silva, R. Willett, and L. Carin, Dynamic relational topic model for social network

analysis with noisy links, in Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2011.

[C8] M. Raginsky, N. Kiarashi, and R. Willett, Decentralized online convex programming with local

information, in Proc. American Control Conference, 2011.

[C9] Z. T. Harmany, J. Mueller, Q. Brown, N. Ramanujam, and R. Willett, Tissue quanti cation in

photon-limited microendoscopy, in Proc. SPIE Optics and Photonics, 2011.

[C10] Z. T. Harmany, A. Oh, R. Marcia, and R. Willett, Motion-adaptive compressive coded aper-

tures, in Proc. SPIE Optics and Photonics, 2011.

[C11] R. Willett, Errata: Sampling trajectories for sparse image recovery, Errata pertains to: Short

and Smooth Sampling Trajectories for Compressed Sensing (ICASSP 2011), Smooth Sampling

Trajectories for Sparse Recovery in MRI (ISBI 2011), and Sampling Trajectories for Sparse

Image Recovery (SAMPTA 2011), 2011.

[C12] C. Horn and R. Willett, Online anomaly detection with expert system feedback in social net-

works, in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2011.

[C13] E. Wang, J. Silva, R. Willett, and L. Carin, Time-evolving modeling of social networks, in

Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2011.

[C14] R. Willett, Z. Harmany, and R. Marcia, Poisson image reconstruction with total variation regu-

larization, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2010.

[C15] K. Krishnamurthy, M. Raginsky, and R. Willett, Hyperspectral target detection from incoherent

projections: Nonequiprobable targets and inhomogeneous SNR, in Proc. IEEE International

Conference on Image Processing, 2010.

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[C16] M. Raginsky, S. Jafarpour, R. Willett, and R. Calderbank, Fishing in Poisson streams: focusing

on the whales, ignoring the minnows, in Proc. Forty-Fourth Conference on Information Sciences

and Systems, 2010, arXiv:1003.2836.

[C17] Z. Harmany, D. Thompson, R. Willett, and R. Marcia, Gradient projection for linearly con-

strained convex optimization in sparse signal recovery, in Proc. IEEE International Conference

on Image Processing, 2010.

[C18] K. Krishnamurthy, M. Raginsky, and R. Willett, Hyperspectral target detection from incoherent

projections, in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

(ICASSP), 2010.

[C19] Z. T. Harmany, R. F. Marcia, and R. M. Willett, SPIRAL out of convexity: Sparsity-regularized

algorithms for photon-limited imaging, in Proc. SPIE Computational Imaging, 2010.

[C20] S. Jafarpour, R. Willett, M. Raginsky, and R. Calderbank, Performance bounds for expander-

based compressed sensing in the presence of Poisson noise, in Proc. Asilomar Conference on

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2009, Winner of best student paper award. arXiv:0911.1368.

[C21] Z. T. Harmany, R. Marcia, and R. Willett, Sparse Poisson intensity reconstruction algorithms,

in IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2009, arXiv:0905.0483.

[C22] H. Jared Doot, Kevin Eliceiri, Robert Nowak, and Rebecca Willett, Image reconstruction of

multiphoton microscopy data, in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2009.

[C23] R. Willett and M. Raginsky, Performance bounds for compressed sensing with Poisson noise,

in Proc. of IEEE Int. Symp. on Inf. Theory, 2009.

[C24] M. Raginsky, R. Marcia, J. Silva, and R. Willett, Sequential probability assignment via online

convex programming using exponential families, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on

Information Theory, 2009.

[C25] R. Marcia, Z. Harmany, and R. Willett, Compressive coded aperture imaging, in SPIE Elec-

tronic Imaging, 2009.

[C26] G. Ybarra, L. M. Collins, L. G. Huettel, H. Z. Massoud, J. Board, M. Brooke, N. Jokerst, R. Roy

Choudhury, M. R. Gustafson, R. M. Willett, and K. Coonley, Integrating sensing and processing

in an electrical and computer engineering curriculum, in Proc. Frontiers in Education Confer-

ence, 2009.

[C27] M. Raginsky, S. Lazebnik, R. Willett, and J. Silva, Near-minimax recursive density estimation

on the binary hypercube, in Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems, 2008.

[C28] Z. Harmany, R. Willett, A. Singh, and R. Nowak, Controlling the error in fmri: Hypothesis

testing or set estimation?, in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging ISBI,

2008.

[C29] R. Marcia and R. Willett, Compressive coded aperture video reconstruction, in Proc. European

Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, 2008.

[C30] Roummel F. Marcia, Changsoon Kim, Jungsang Kim, David J. Brady, and Rebecca M. Willett,

Fast disambiguation of superimposed images for increased eld of view, in Proceedings of

the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, October 2008, pp.

2620 2623.

[C31] R. Willett, Multiscale-analysis of photon-limited astronomical images, in Statistical Chal-

lenges in Modern Astronomy IV, 2007, vol. 371 of Astronomical Society of the Paci c Conference

Series.

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[C32] J. Silva and R. Willett, Detection of anomalous meetings in a social network, in Proc. Confer-

ence on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2008.

[C33] R. Marcia and R. Willett, Compressive coded aperture superresolution image reconstruction,

in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008.

[C34] A. Wagadarikar, R. John, R. Willett, and D. Brady, Single disperser design for compressive,

single-snapshot spectral imaging, in Proceedings of SPIE Optics and Photonics, 2007.

[C35] C. Scott, G. Bellala, and R. Willett, Generalization error analysis for FDR controlled classi ca-

tion, in Proceedings of IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2007.

[C36] K. Krishnamurthy and R. Willett, Multiscale reconstruction for photon-limited hyperspectral

data, in Proceedings of IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2007.

[C37] R. Willett, Multiscale intensity estimation for multi-photon microscopy, in Proceedings of

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2007.

[C38] R. Willett, Multiscale reconstruction for photon-limited shifted excitation raman spectroscopy,

in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing (Proc. International Con-

ference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing), 2007.

[C39] R. Willett, Multiscale intensity estimation for marked Poisson processes, in Proceedings

IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing (Proc. International Conference on Acoustics,

Speech, and Signal Processing), 2007.

[C40] M. Gehm R. Willett and D. Brady, Multiscale reconstruction for computational spectral imag-

ing, in Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, Computational Imaging V, 2007.

[C41] R. Willett, Multiscale analysis of photon-limited astronomical images, in Proceedings of

Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy (SCMA) IV, 2006.

[C42] P. Barford, R. Willett R. Nowak, and V. Yegneswaran, Toward a model for sources of internet

background radiation, in Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM

06), 2006.

[C43] M. Shankar, R. Willett, N. Pitsianis, R. Te Kolste, C. Chen, R. Gibbons, and D. Brady, Ultra-thin

multiple-channel lwir imaging systems, in Proceedings of SPIE Optics and Photonics, 2006.

[C44] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Level set estimation via trees, in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf.

Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing (Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and

Signal Processing), 2005.

[C45] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Minimax optimal level set estimation, in Proceedings of Wavelets XI

at the SPIE Annual Meeting, 2005.

[C46] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Level set estimation in medical imaging, in Proceedings of IEEE

Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2005.

[C47] R. Castro, R. Willett, and R. Nowak, Faster rates in regression via active learning, in Neural

Information Processing Systems, 2005.

[C48] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Fast, near-optimal, multiresolution estimation of Poisson signals and

images, in Proc. Twelfth European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 04, 6-10 Sept.,

Vienna, Austria, 2004.

[C49] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Complexity-regularized multiresolution density estimation, in Proc.

IEEE Int. Sym. Information Theory ISIT 04, 27 June - 2 July, Chicago, IL, USA, 2004.

[C50] R. Willett, A. Martin, and R. Nowak, Adaptive sampling for wireless sensor networks, in Proc.

IEEE Int. Sym. Information Theory ISIT 04, 27 June - 2 July, Chicago, IL, USA, 2004.

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[C51] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Fast multiresolution photon-limited image reconstruction, in Proc.

IEEE Int. Sym. Biomedical Imaging ISBI 04, 15-18 April, Arlington, VA, USA, 2004.

[C52] R. Castro, R. Willett, and R. Nowak, Coarse-to- ne manifold learning, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf.

Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and

Signal Processing 04, 17-21 May, Montreal, CA, 2004.

[C53] R. Willett, A. Martin, and R. Nowak, Backcasting: Adaptive sampling for sensor networks, in

Proc. Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 26-27 April, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2004.

[C54] R. Willett, I. Jermyn, R. Nowak, and J. Zerubia, Wavelet-based superresolution in astron-

omy, in Proc. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, 12-15 October, Stras-

bourg, France, 2003.

[C55] R. Willett and R. Nowak, Multiscale likelihood analysis and image reconstruction, in Proc.

SPIE Vol. 5207, Wavelets X, 4-8 August, San Diego, CA, USA, 2003.

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