Ajay Deshpande

Postdoctoral Associate
Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, MIT
Room 35-010
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: +1-617-258-8547
Email: ajayd [at] MIT dot EDU

C.V.

I am a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This semester, I am also an instructor for 2.003. I graduated with a PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in September 2008. My thesis co-advisors are Prof. Sanjay Sarma and Prof. Daniela Rus.

I earned double Master's from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in June 2006. Prior to joining MIT, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2001 with B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering with the specialization in Computer Integrated Manufacturing.

Research Interests

My research interests are in signal processing, estimation, cooperative control, optimization, probability theory and computational geometry with applications to sensor placement, sampling, multi-sensor fusion, and motion control and coordination in sensor networks. I am also interested in usage of sensor networks in application areas such as environmental sampling, and monitoring civil infrastructure like electrical grids, buildings, roads, water distribution systems and agricultural fields.

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. A. Deshpande and S. E. Sarma. "Error-tolerant arrangements of sensors for sampling fields," in preparation.
  2. A. Deshpande and S. E. Sarma. "Generalized regular sampling of trigonometric polynomials and optimal estimation error," manuscript ready for submission, available upon request.

Conference Papers

  1. A. Deshpande and D. Rus. "Coverage and connectivity of naturally mobile sensor networks in rivers," submitted, available upon request.
  2. A. Deshpande, S. Poduri, D. Rus and G. S. Sukhatme. "Distributed coverage control for mobile sensors with location-dependent sensing models," accepted for publication in the Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 2009, available upon request.
  3. S. Poduri, A. Deshpande, D. Rus and G. S. Sukhatme, "Distributed 1D coverage control for a reconfigurable camera network," ImageSense'08, Workshop on Applications, Systems, and Algorithms for Image Sensing, a part of Sensys'08, Rayleigh, North Carolina, November 2008.
  4. A. Deshpande and S. E. Sarma, "Error Tolerant Arrangements of sensors for sampling fields," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC) 2008, Seattle, Washington, June 2008, pages 2401--08.
  5. A. Deshpande, T. Kim, E. D. Demaine, and S. E. Sarma, "A pseudopolynomial time O(log n)-approximation algorithm for art gallery problems," in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 4619, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 15–-17, 2007, pages 163--174.
  6. A. A. Deshpande and S. S. Pande, "WebNC - Internet based system for intelligent auditing and reverse engineering of CNC part programs," the 30th North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC), May 2002, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, published in NAMRI/SME Transactions 2002, Vol. 30, pages 439--446.

Theses

  1. A. A. Deshpande. "Coverage problems in mobile sensing," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008.
  2. A. A. Deshpande. "A pseudo-polynomial time O(log^2 n)-approximation algorithm for art gallery problems," S.M. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.
  3. A. A. Deshpande. "Intelligent CNC machining," Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2001.
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