Electrical Engineering

RAMESH NEELAMANI

Rice University Home Address

**** **** **., *** ****., MS 366 1933 Dryden road, #2

Houston TX 77005 Houston, TX 77030

Phone: 713-***-****, Fax: 713-***-**** Phone: 713-***-****

Email: ******@****.*** Web: www.dsp.rice.edu/~neelsh

SUMMARY

Objective: Seek a challenging, full-time position in

a collaborative research environment.

Expertise: Multimedia processing theory and applications -- signal/image

restoration, segmentation, halftoning, compression; multiscale

algorithms; color; pattern

recognition; graphical models.

Strengths: Articulate communication, excellent team skills,

self-motivation.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University. July '03 (expected).

Thesis: Inverse Problems in Image Processing. GPA: 3.96/4.00.

Advisor: Prof. Richard G. Baraniuk

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University. May '99.

Thesis: Wavelet-based Deconvolution for Ill-conditioned Systems. GPA: 3.96/4.00.

Advisor: Prof. Richard G. Baraniuk

B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology -- Bombay. July '97.

Thesis: Array Signal Processing.

GPA: 8.95/10.00.

Advisor: Prof. Harish Parthasarathy

EXPERIENCE

Rice University Research assistant in the ECE department

from '98-present.

Designed and implemented (C, MATLAB) multiscale solutions to restoration, inverse halftoning, and segmentation.

Submitted 4 journal and 7 conference

papers.

Ricoh Corporation Internship in the California Research Center, Menlo park, from May-August '01.

Invented and implemented (MATLAB, Python) header-based algorithms to process JPEG 2000 images.

Filed 2 patents and submitted 1 conference paper. 1 journal paper in preparation

Xerox Corporation Internship in the Document Research Center, Webster, NY, from May-August '00.

Devised and implemented (C, MATLAB) robust algorithms to discover an image's JPEG compression history.

Submitted 2 conference papers. 1 journal paper in preparation

Rice University Teaching Fellow for the Spectral Analysis

course from January-May '00.

Delivered many lectures. Helped with

student evaluations.

Received good student reviews.

HONORS and ACTIVITIES

Rice Graduate Fellowship, '97-98.

Second prize in IEEE all-India student paper contest, '95.

Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society.

Reviewer for IEEE, IEE, and JEI journals.

IEEE student member.

President of the Rice graduate student soccer club and Captain of the team, 2000--'02.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Systems UNIX, Linux, Windows

Languages/Packages MATLAB, C/C++, Mathematica, Maple, Python

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS R. Neelamani, H. Choi, and R. G. Baraniuk, ``ForWaRD: Fourier-Wavelet Regularized Deconvolution for Ill-Conditioned Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2003 (to appear).

R. Neelamani, R. Nowak, and R. G. Baraniuk, ``WInHD: Wavelet-based

Inverse Halftoning via Deconvolution,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2002 (submitted).

D. M. Mittleman, M. Gupta, R. Neelamani, R. G. Baraniuk,

J. V. Rudd, and M. Koch, ``Recent Advances in Terahertz Imaging,''

Applied Physics B, vol. 68, pp. 1085-1094, 1999.

D. M. Mittleman, R. H. Jacobsen, R. Neelamani, R. G. Baraniuk, and

M. C. Nuss, ``Gas Sensing Using Terahertz Time-domain Spectroscopy,''

Applied Physics B, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 379-390, 1998.

R. Neelamani, and D. Iyer, ``Spectral Performance of GMSK:

Effects of Modulation Index and Quantization,'' IETE Students'

Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 231-236, October 1996.

PATENTS

K. Berkner, R. Neelamani, G. J. Wolff, M. Boliek,

and P. E. Hart, ``Creation of Visually Recognizable Display Device

Dependent Small-size Representations of Images (SmartNails filed on 11

January '02.

K. Berkner, R. Neelamani, E. L. Schwartz, and M. Boliek,

``Header-based Processing of Images Compressed Using Multi-scale

Transforms,'' filed on 10 January '02.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

``One Hammer, Two Nails: Wavelet-based Solutions to Deconvolution and

Inverse Halftoning,'' LCAV seminar, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de

Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2002.

``Multiscale Image Segmentation,'' Document Research Center, Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY, July 2000.

``Wavelet-based Deconvolution Using Optimally Regularized Inversion

for Ill-conditioned Systems,'' Wavelet Applications in Signal and

Image Processing VII, Proc. SPIE, Denver, July 1999.

``Wavelet-based Deconvolution for Ill-conditioned Systems,'' Texas Instruments DSP Leadership Meeting, Dallas, Texas, May 1999.

SELECT CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS R. Neelamani, and K. Berkner, ``Adaptive Representation of JPEG

2000 Images Using Header-based Processing,'' Proc. IEEE

Int. Conf. Image Processing - ICIP '02, Rochester, NY, September

2002.

R. Neelamani, R. de Queiroz, and R. G. Baraniuk, ``Compression

Color Space Estimation of JPEG Images Using Lattice Basis Reduction,''

Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing - ICIP '01, vol. 1,

pp. 890-893, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2001. Earlier

version presented at 8th Int. Workshop on

Combinatorial Image Analysis - IWCIA '01, Philadelphia, August 2001.

R. Neelamani, R. Nowak, and R. G. Baraniuk, ``Model-based

Inverse Halftoning with Wavelet Vaguelette Deconvolution,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing - ICIP '00, vol. 3,

pp. 973-976, Vancouver, Canada, September 2000.

R. Neelamani, J. K. Romberg, R. H. Riedi, H. Choi, and R. G. Baraniuk,

``Multiscale Image Segmentation Using Joint Texture and Shape

Analysis,'' Wavelet Applications in Signal and

Image Processing VIII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4119, pp. 215-228, San Diego, July 2000 (invited paper).

R. Neelamani, H. Choi, and R. G. Baraniuk, ``Wavelet-based

Deconvolution Using Optimally Regularized Inversion for

Ill-conditioned Systems,'' Wavelet Applications in Signal and

Image Processing VII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 3813,

pp. 58-72, Denver, July 1999 (invited paper). Earlier versions

presented at ICIP '99, Kobe, Japan, October 1999, and ICASSP '99, Phoenix, March 1999.

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