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Lav R. Varshney - BiographyLav R. Varshney was born in Syracuse, New York on October 28, 1982. He received the B. S. degree with honors in electrical and computer engineering (magna cum laude) from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 2004. He received the S. M. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 2006 and is pursuing a doctoral degree there. He is a research assistant in the Signal Transformation and Information Representation Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, has been a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, and has been a research assistant in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. He was an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Spring 2009 and a teaching assistant in Fall 2006. He was a visitor at the Laboratoire de Théorie de l'Information and the Laboratoire de Théorie des Communications at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland in 2006, a visiting scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 2005, a research engineering intern at Syracuse Research Corporation, North Syracuse, New York during 2002-2003 and an engineering intern at Sensis Corporation, DeWitt, New York in 2001. His research interests include information theory, coding, and theoretical neuroscience. Mr. Varshney is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and a graduate student member of the IEEE and SIAM. He received the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering S.M. Thesis, the Capocelli Prize at the 2006 Data Compression Conference, the Best Student Paper Award at the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference, and was a winner of the IEEE 2004 Student History Paper Contest. Last Updated September 2009, XHTML 1.0 |