Waheed U. Bajwa

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New Information Processing Theory and Methods for Exploiting Sparsity in Wireless Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2009.

Waheed U. Bajwa received the BE (with Honors) degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2001, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI in 2005 and 2009, respectively.

He was an Intern at Communications Enabling Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan – the research arm of Avaz Networks Inc., Irvine, CA (now Quartics LLC) – during 2000-2001, a Design Engineer at Communications Enabling Technologies from 2001-2003, and an R&D Intern in the RF and Photonics Lab of GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY during the summer of 2006. He was also briefly affiliated with the Center for Advanced Research in Engineering, Islamabad, Pakistan during 2003. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. His research interests include theory of sparse signal representation (à la compressed sensing), statistical signal processing, learning theory, wireless communications, and applications in biological sciences, image and video processing, radar, and cognitive radio & wireless sensor/ad-hoc networks.

Dr. Bajwa received the Best in Academics Gold Medal and President's Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in 2001, and the Morgridge Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He was Junior NUST Student of the Year (2000), Wisconsin Union Poker Series Champion (Spring 2008), and President of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Golden Key International Honor Society (2009). He is currently a member of the IEEE, Pakistan Engineering Council, and Golden Key International Honor Society.

Robert Calderbank, Princeton University
Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin
Akbar Sayeed, University of Wisconsin
Nigel Boston, University of Wisconsin
Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin
Sina Jafarpour, Princeton University
Michael Rabbat, McGill University
Jarvis Haupt, Rice University
Gil Raz, GMR Research
Jay Wierer, Milwaukee School of Engg.

A copy of our paper submitted to IEEE T-SP is now available through arXiv.

A preprint of our Allerton 2009 paper has been uploaded on the website.