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Past Events Archive:
Date: July 23, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30PM
Food and Networking: 6:30 – 7PM
Talk: 7 – 8:30PM
Place: George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC, 3333
Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304
Title: Defying Nyquist in Analog to Digital
Conversion
Speaker: Prof. Yonina Eldar, IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract: The famous
Shannon-Nyquist theorem has become a landmark in the development of digital
signal processing. However, in many modern applications, the signal
bandwidths have increased tremendously, while the acquisition capabilities
have not scaled sufficiently fast. Consequently, conversion to digital has
become a serious bottleneck. In this talk a new framework for sampling
wideband analog signals at rates far below that dictated by the Nyquist
rate will be presented. The focus will be both on the theoretical
developments, as well as on actual hardware implementations and
considerations that allow realization of sub-Nyquist samplers in practice.
Applications to a variety of different problems in communications,
bioimaging, and signal processing will also be described.
Biography: Prof. Yonina
C. Eldar received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 and the B.Sc. degree
in Electrical Engineering in 1996 both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU),
Tel-Aviv, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge. From January 2002 to July 2002 she was a Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Digital Signal Processing Group at MIT. She is currently a
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She is also a Research
Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT and a Visiting
Professor at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Dr. Eldar was in the program for outstanding students at TAU from 1992 to
1996. In 1998, she held the Rosenblith Fellowship for study in Electrical
Engineering at MIT, and in 2000, she held an IBM Research Fellowship. From
2002-2005 she was a Horev Fellow of the Leaders in Science and Technology
program at the Technion and an Alon Fellow. In 2004, she was awarded the Wolf
Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, in 2005 the
Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship, in 2007 the Henry Taub Prize for
Excellence in Research, in 2008 the Hershel Rich Innovation Award, the
Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, the Muriel & David
Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Technion Outstanding
Lecture Award, in 2009 the Technion's Award for Excellence in Teaching, in
2010 the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, and
in 2011 the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences. She is a Signal Processing
Society Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the IEEE Bio Imaging Signal
Processing technical committee,a member of the Israel Committee for Higher
Education, an Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences,
and on the Editorial Board of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing.
In the past, she was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and
Methods technical committee, and served as an associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions On Signal Processing, the EURASIP Journal of Signal
Processing, and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
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