P. P. Vaidyanathan

P. P. Vaidyanathan
Residence	United States
Nationality	Indian American
Fields	Digital Signal Processing
Institutions	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Barbara University of Kolkata
Academic advisors	Sanjit K. Mitra

Palghat P. Vaidyanathan (born in Kolkata, India on 16 October 1954) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, where he teaches and leads research in the area of signal processing, especially digital signal processing (DSP), and its applications. He has authored four books, and authored or coauthored close to five hundred papers in various IEEE journals and conferences. Prof. Vaidyanathan received his B.Tech and M. Tech degrees from the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, University of Kolkata, and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara in 1982.

Prof. Vaidyanathan's pioneering contributions include the development of the theory and structures for filter banks,^[1] especially perfect reconstruction and orthonornal filter banks, which find applications in data compression standards such as JPEG and MPEG, and in digital communications. One of his early contributions is the development of the theory of robust digital filter structures directly in discrete time without recourse to classical circuit theoretical models.^[2] He has also contributed widely in other areas of signal processing including image processing,^[3] genomic signal processing,^[4] sampling theory,^[5] optimal transceivers,^[6] radar signal processing,^[7] and sensor array processing. ^[8] He has also explored the role of number theory in signal processing applications.^[9]

Awards and Honors

• Northrop Grumman prize for Excellence in Teaching at California Institute of Technology, 2016.
• IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, 2016.^[10]
• Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2011.^[11]
• Eliahu Jury Seminar Award, University of Miami, 2007.
• Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2001.^[12]
• Golden jubilee medal, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2000.
• Distinguished lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1996-97.^[13]
• Awards for excellence in teaching, California Institute of Technology (multiple times).
• Best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing Society (multiple times).
• F. E. Terman Award of the ASEE, sponsored by the Hewlett-Packard company, 1995.^[14]
• Fellow of the IEEE, 1991.^[15]
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1986.

Books

1. P. P. Vaidyanathan, Multirate systems and filter banks, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1993.^[16]
2. P. P. Vaidyanathan, The Theory of Linear Prediction, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008.^[16]
3. P. P. Vaidyanathan, S.-M Phoong, and Y.-P Lin, Signal Processing and Optimization for Transceiver Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2010.^[16]
4. Y.-P Lin, S.-M. Phoong, and P. P. Vaidyanathan, Filter bank transceivers for OFDM and DMT systems, Cambridge University Press, 2010.^[16]

External links

• Research group at Caltech
• P. P. Vaidyanathan's homepage
• Google scholar page

References

1. • P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Multirate digital filters, filter banks, polyphase networks, and applications: A tutorial," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 78, pp. 56-92, Jan. 1990. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=52200.
   • R. D. Koilpillai, and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Cosine-modulated FIR filter banks satisfying perfect reconstruction," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 40, pp. 770-783, April 1992. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=127951
   • S-M. Phoong, C. W. Kim, P. P. Vaidyanathan, and R. Ansari, "A new class of two-channel biorthogonal filter banks and wavelet bases," IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., vol. SP-43, pp. 649--665, March 1995. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=370620
   • P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Theory and design of M-channel maximally decimated quadrature mirror filters with arbitrary $M,$ having perfect reconstruction property," IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 35, pp. 476-492, April 1987. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1165155
2. • P. P. Vaidyanathan, S. K. Mitra and Y. Neuvo, "A new approach to the realization of low sensitivity IIR digital filters," IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-34, pp. 350-361, April 1986. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1164829
   • P. P. Vaidyanathan and T. Q. Nguyen, "Eigenfilters: a new approach to least squares FIR filter design and applications including Nyquist filters," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, vol. 34, pp. 11-23, January 1987. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1086033
3. M. Mese and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Look Up Table (LUT) for inverse halftoning," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, pp. 1566--1578, Oct. 2001. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=951541
4. P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Genomics and proteomics: a signal processor's tour," IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 6--29, Dec. 2004. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1371584
5. P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Generalizations of the sampling theorem: seven decades after Nyquist," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-1, pp. 1094--1109, Sept. 2001. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=948437
6. • Ching-Chih Weng, Chun-Yang Chen, and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "MIMO transceivers with decision feedback and bit loading: theory and optimization", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, March 2010. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5272297
   • Chih-Hao Liu and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "MMSE DFE Transceiver Design over Slowly Time-varying MIMO Channels Using ST-GTD", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 59, pp. 277--289, Jan. 2011. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5601795
7. • Chun-Yang Chen and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "MIMO radar space-time adaptive processing using prolate spheroidal wave functions", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Feb, 2008. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4400830
   • Chun-Yang Chen and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "MIMO Radar Waveform Optimization with Prior Information of the Extended Target and Clutter", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 3533-3544, Sept. 2009. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4840496
8. • Piya Pal and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Nested arrays: a novel approach to array processing with enhanced degrees of freedom," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 58, pp. 4167--4181, August 2010. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5456168
   • P. P. Vaidyanathan and Piya Pal, "Sparse sensing with coprime samplers and arrays, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 573--586, Feb. 2011. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5609222
9. • P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Ramanujan sums in the context of signal processing: Part I: fundamentals," IEEE Trans. on Signal Proc., vol. 62, no. 16, pp. 4145--4157, Aug., 2014. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6839014
   • P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Ramanujan sums in the context of signal processing: Part II: FIR representations and applications," IEEE Trans. on Signal Proc., vol. 62, no. 16, pp. 4158--4172, Aug., 2014. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6839030&tag=1
   • S. V. Tenneti and P. P. Vaidyanathan, "Nested Periodic Matrices and Dictionaries: New Signal Representations for Period Estimation," IEEE Trans. on Signal Proc., vol. 63, no. 14, pp. 3736--3750, July 2015. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7109930&tag=1
10. http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/kirchhoff.html
11. http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/awardspage/education-award/
12. http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/awardspage/techachv/
13. http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/community/lectures/
14. http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/professional-and-technical-division-awards
15. http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/index.html
16. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=vaidyanathan+PP