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I am spending the academic year of 2012-2013 at Rice University working with Prof. Richard Baraniuk.

Education

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011, Advisor: Prof. José M. F. Moura
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
BS, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006

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Selected Papers

Divyanshu Vats, "High-Dimensional Screening Using Multiple Grouping of Variables," Preprint, March 2013. [arxiv] [webpage]

Divyanshu Vats and José M. F. Moura, "Finding Non-overlapping Clusters for Generalized Inference Over Graphical Models," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 6368-6381, Dec. 2012. [link][arxiv] [webpage]

Divyanshu Vats and José M. F. Moura, "Telescoping Recursive Representations and Estimation of Gauss-Markov Random Fields," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory , vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 1645-1663, March 2011. [link] [arxiv] [video]

Divyanshu Vats and José M. F. Moura, "Necessary Conditions for Set-Based Graphical Model Selection," in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2011), St. Petersburg, Russia, 31 July - 5 August 2011. [link]

Divyanshu Vats and José M. F. Moura, "Reciprocal Fields: A Model for Random Fields Pinned to Two Boundaries," in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2011) , Atlanta, GA, 15 – 17 December 2010. [link]

Divyanshu Vats and José M. F. Moura, "Telescoping Approach to Recursive Enhancement of Noisy Images," in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010) , Dallas, Texas, 14-19 March 2010. [link]

Divyanshu Vats and José M. F. Moura, "Recursive Filtering and Smoothing for Gaussian Reciprocal Processes with Continuous Indices," in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, 28 June - 3 July 2009. [link]

Vishal Monga, Divyanshu Vats, and Brian L. Evans, "Image Authentication Under Geometric Attacks Via Structure Matching," in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005), Jul. 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [link]