Martin J. Wainwright

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Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of Statistics University of California at Berkeley Contact information EECS information: 263 Cory Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 Phone: (510) 643-1978 Fax: (510) 643-7846 Email: x@y with x=wainwrig y=eecs.berkeley.edu Statistics information: 421 Evans Hall #3860 Berkeley, CA 94720-3860 Phone: (510)-643-1975 Fax: (510) 642-7892 Email: x@y with x=wainwrig y=stat.berkeley.edu NOTE: The easiest and most reliable way to reach me is by email.

Research affiliations and useful links

Designated Emphasis in Communication, Computation and Statistics: An interdisciplinary program that bridges the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Statistical Machine Learning: A group of researchers and students from EECS and Statistics.

Wireless Foundations: A communications and signal processing group which is housed in the Wong Center in the EECS Department.

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Tutorials

Upcoming ICML tutorial: Graphical models and variational methods (ICML 2008, Helsinki, Finland)

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Some seminars and reading groups

Upcoming seminars in the Department of Statistics.
Signal Processing, Networking and Communication Seminar in the Department of EECS.
Reading group: Forum for reading and discussing papers/books on changing topics).

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Research areas

Statistical signal and image processing

Graphical models and machine learning

Communication and coding

Distributed signal processing

Statistical decision-making under communication constraints

Background material:

Tutorial slides on Graphical Models, Message-Passing and Variational Methods.

Talk slides on Linear-programming decoding of low-density parity check codes.

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Publications

Graphical models and message-passing
Coding, data compression, algorithms
High-dimensional statistical inference
Distributed statistical inference and signal processing
Natural image statistics
Statistical approaches to biological vision
Theses

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Current group members

Graduate students

Arash Ali Amini

Alexandros Dimakis

Amin Aminzadeh Gohari

Pamela Lee

Sahand Negahban

Dapo Omidiran

Garvesh Raskutti

Postdocs and visting scholars

Pradeep Ravikumar

Prasad Santhanam

Undergraduate researchers

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Alumni

Sameer Vermani (EECS Masters, 2006: now at Qualcomm)

XuanLong Nguyen (EECS PhD, 2007: postdoctoral fellow at SAMSI and Duke University)

Matt Johnson (Undergrad researcher 2007--2008, Now at MIT)

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Last updated 05/01/2008