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[3] L. R. Varshney, "Unreliable and Resource-Constrained Decoding," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2010. (Kong Thesis Award, Honorable Mention) MIT DSpace

[2] L. R. Varshney, "Optimal Information Storage: Nonsequential Sources and Neural Channels," S.M. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2006. (Also printed as Technical Report P-2701, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT.; Guillemin Thesis Award) MIT DSpace Errata

[1] L. R. Varshney, "A Distributed Transmitter for Sensor Network Reachback Communication based on Radar Signals," B.S. Honors Project, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, May 2004.

Preprints

[] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Quantization of Prior Probabilities for Collaborative Distributed Hypothesis Testing." arXiv

[] L. R. Varshney, S. K. Mitter, and V. K. Goyal, "Channels That Die." arXiv

[] L. R. Varshney and K. R. Varshney, "Decision Making with Quantized Priors Leads to Discrimination." pdf

[] L. R. Varshney, "Block Diagrams in Information Theory: Drawing Things Closed." pdf

[] L. R. Varshney, J. Kusuma, and V. K. Goyal, "Malleable Coding with Fixed Reuse." arXiv

[] L. R. Varshney, J. Kusuma, and V. K. Goyal, "Malleable Coding: Compressed Palimpsests." arXiv

[] L. R. Varshney and V. K. Goyal, "Benefiting from Disorder: Source Coding for Unordered Data." arXiv

Journal Papers and Magazine Articles

[10] L. R. Varshney, "The Google Effect in Doctoral Theses," Scientometrics, to appear. Springer

[9] L. R. Varshney and S. K. Mitter, "Sensitivity of Quadratic Gaussian Matching to Interference," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 922-924, September 2011. IEEE

[8] V. Misra, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Distributed Scalar Quantization for Computing: High-Resolution Analysis and Extensions," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 5298-5325, August 2011. IEEE

[7] H. Q. Nguyen, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Frame Permutation Quantization," Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 74-97, July 2011. Elsevier

[6] L. R. Varshney "Performance of LDPC Codes Under Faulty Iterative Decoding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 4427-4444, July 2011. IEEE

[5] L. R. Varshney, B. L. Chen, E. Paniagua, D. H. Hall, and D. B. Chklovskii, "Structural Properties of the Caenorhabditis elegans Neuronal Network," PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 7, no. 2, e1001066, February 2011. PLoS

[4] H. Q. Nguyen, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Concentric Permutation Source Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3154-3164, November 2010. IEEE

[3] K. R. Varshney and L. R. Varshney, "Quantization of Prior Probabilities for Hypothesis Testing," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 4553-4562, October 2008. IEEE matlab

[2] L. R. Varshney, "Local Fidelity, Constrained Codes, and the Meru Prastara," IEEE Potentials, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 27-32, March/April 2008. IEEE

[1] L. R. Varshney, P. J. Sjöström, and D. B. Chklovskii, "Optimal Information Storage in Noisy Synapses under Resource Constraints," Neuron, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 409-423, November 2006. Cell Press

Book Contributions

[2] L. R. Varshney, B. L. Chen, E. Paniagua, D. H. Hall, and D. B. Chklovskii, "The Caenorhabditis elegans Connectome," in Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, C. Schoonover (ed.), New York: Abrams, 2010.

[1] L. R. Varshney and S. D. Servetto, "A Distributed Transmitter for the Sensor Reachback Problem Based on Radar Signals," in Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking, B. K. Szymanski and B. Yener (eds.), Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. Springer

Conference Papers

[31] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Benefits of Collaboration and Diversity in Teams of Categorically-Thinking Decision Makers," to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE 7th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Hoboken, New Jersey, 17-20 June 2012.

[30] L. R. Varshney, P. Grover, and A. Sahai, "Securing Inductively Coupled Communication," in Proceedings of the 2012 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, California, 5-10 Feb. 2012.

[29] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Distributed Decision Making by Categorically-Thinking Agents," to appear in Proceedings of the NIPS 2011 Workshop on Decision Making with Multiple Imperfect Decision Makers, Sierra Nevada, Spain, 16 December 2011. NIPS

[28] A. K. Fletcher, S. Rangan, L. R. Varshney, and A. Bhargava, "Neural Reconstruction with Approximate Message Passing (NeuRAMP)," in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Granada, Spain, 13-15 December 2011. NIPS

[27] D. V. Oppenheim, L. R. Varshney, and Y.-M. Chee, "Work as a Service," in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Paphos, Cyprus, 5-8 December 2011. Springer

[26] L. R. Varshney and D. Shah, "Informational Limits of Neural Circuits," in Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 28-30 September 2011. IEEE

[25] L. R. Varshney and D. V. Oppenheim (eds.), "On Cross-Enterprise Collaboration," in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 28 August - 2 September 2011. (Invited) Springer

[24] J. Kusuma, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Malleable Coding with Fixed Segment Reuse," in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2011), St. Petersburg, Russia, 31 July - 5 August 2011. IEEE

[23] K. R. Varshney and L. R. Varshney, "Multilevel Minimax Hypothesis Testing," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Nice, France, 28-30 June 2011. IEEE

[22] L. R. Varshney and D. V. Oppenheim, "Coordinating Global Service Delivery in the Presence of Uncertainty," in Proceedings of the 12th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management (QUIS12), Ithaca, New York, 2-5 June 2011. pdf

[21] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Collaboration in Distributed Hypothesis Testing with Quantized Prior Probabilities," in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC 2011), Snowbird, Utah, 29-31 March 2011. IEEE

[20] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Conflict in Distributed Hypothesis Testing with Quantized Prior Probabilities," in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC 2011), Snowbird, Utah, 29-31 March 2011. IEEE

[19] L. R. Varshney, J. B. Rhim, K. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Categorical Decision Making by People, Committees, and Crowds," in Proceedings of the 2011 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, La Jolla, California, 6-11 February 2011. (LRV Invited) IEEE

[18] L. R. Varshney and D. V. Oppenheim, "Towards a Stochastic Systems Theory of Coordination," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Coordination, Collaboration and Ad-hoc Processes (COCOA 2010), Palo Alto, California, 6 December 2010. (LRV Invited) pdf

[17] L. Srinivasan, L. R. Varshney, and J. Kusuma, "Acquisition of Action Potentials with Ultra-Low Sampling Rates," in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August - 4 September 2010. IEEE

[16] L. R. Varshney, "Distributed Inference Networks with Costly Wires," in Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 30 June - 2 July 2010. IEEE

[15] H. Q. Nguyen, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Frame Permutation Quantization," in Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, 17-19 March 2010. IEEE

[14] L. R. Varshney, S. K. Mitter, and V. K. Goyal, "Channels That Die," in Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 30 September – 2 October 2009. IEEE

[13] L. R. Varshney, J. Kusuma, and V. K. Goyal, "Malleable Coding with Edit-Distance Cost," in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, 28 June - 3 July 2009. IEEE

[12] H. Q. Nguyen, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "On Concentric Spherical Codes and Permutation Codes With Multiple Initial Codewords," in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, 28 June - 3 July 2009. IEEE

[11] L. R. Varshney, "Transporting Information and Energy Simultaneously," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2008), Toronto, Canada, 6-11 July 2008. IEEE

[10] K. R. Varshney and L. R. Varshney, "Minimum Mean Bayes Risk Error Quantization of Prior Probabilities," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, 30 March - 4 April 2008. IEEE

[9] V. Misra, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "High-Resolution Functional Quantization," in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC 2008), Snowbird, Utah, 25-27 March 2008. IEEE

[8] V. Misra, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "High-Resolution Distributed Functional Quantization," in Proceedings of the 2008 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, La Jolla, California, 27 January - 1 February 2008. (VKG Invited) IEEE

[7] L. R. Varshney, "Performance of LDPC Codes Under Noisy Message-Passing Decoding," in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe, California, 2-6 September 2007. IEEE

[6] L. R. Varshney and D. B. Chklovskii, "On Optimal Information Storage in Synapses," in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe, California, 2-6 September 2007. (LRV Invited) IEEE

[5] L. R. Varshney and V. K. Goyal, "On Universal Coding of Unordered Data," in Proceedings of the 2007 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, La Jolla, California, 29 January - 2 February 2007. (VKG Invited) IEEE

[4] L. R. Varshney and V. K. Goyal, "Toward a Source Coding Theory for Sets," in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC 2006), Snowbird, Utah, 28-30 March 2006. (Capocelli Prize) IEEE

[3] L. R. Varshney and V. K. Goyal, "Ordered and Disordered Source Coding," in Proceedings of the Information Theory and its Applications Inaugural Workshop, La Jolla, California, 6-10 February 2006. (VKG Invited) ITA

[2] L. R. Varshney, "Engineering Theory and Mathematics in the Early Development of Information Theory," in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics, Bletchley Park, England, 28-30 June 2004. (IEEE Region 1 Student Paper Contest Winner) IEEE

[1] L. R. Varshney and D. Thomas, "Sidelobe Reduction for Matched Filter Range Processing," in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, 5-8 May 2003. (Best Student Paper Award) IEEE

Conference Presentations

[9] R. Williams, W. M. Gifford, and L. R. Varshney, "Using Statistical Algorithms to Predict Abuse against Children and Prioritize Cases," to be presented at 18th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Washington, DC, 16-20 April 2012.

[8] A. K. Fletcher, S. Rangan, L. R. Varshney, and A. Bhargava, "Neural Connectivity and Receptive Field Estimation via Hybrid Message Passing," presented at 2012 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, San Diego, California, 5-10 February 2012.

[7] L. Srinivasan, L. R. Varshney, and J. Kusuma, "Spike Acquisition at Ultra-Low Sampling Rates for Neuroprosthetic Devices," presented at Neuroscience 2010: Society for Neuroscience 40th Annual Meeting, Program No. 20.13, San Diego, California, 13-17 November 2010. abstract

[6] L. R. Varshney, "Communication with Unreliable Receivers," presented at 2010 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, La Jolla, California, 1-5 February 2010. ITA

[5] V. Misra, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Distributed Functional Scalar Quantization with Limited Encoder Interaction," presented at 2009 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, La Jolla, California, 8-13 February 2009. (VKG Invited) ITA

[4] L. R. Varshney, "Meeting Shannon: Information-Theoretic Thinking in Engineering and Science," presented at 2008 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Porto, Portugal, 5-9 May 2008. (LRV Invited) IEEE

[3] L. R. Varshney, P. J. Sjöström, and D. B. Chklovskii, "Optimal Information Storage in Noisy Synapses," presented at 2006 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Channels, Receptors & Synapses, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 18-22 April 2006. CSHL abstract

[2] D. B. Chklovskii and L. R. Varshney, "Noisy Synapses and Information Storage," presented at Neuroscience 2005: Society for Neuroscience 35th Annual Meeting, Program No. 965.17, Washington, D.C., 12-16 November 2005. SfN abstract

[1] L. R. Varshney and D. B. Chklovskii, "Reliability and Information Storage Capacity of Synapses," presented at 2005 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Learning & Memory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 20-24 April 2005. CSHL abstract

Invited Festschrift Contributions

[1] L. R. Varshney, "Mathematization and Novel Systems," in Glimpses of Systems Theory and Novel Applications, H. S. Sekhon, et al., Eds. Aligarh, India: Systems Society of India Punjab Chapter, 2005, pp. 144-148.

Collaborators

  • Aniruddha Bhargava, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Yi-Min Chee, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • Beth L. Chen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Dmitri B. Chklovskii, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Alyson K. Fletcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Calfornia, Berkeley
  • Wesley M. Gifford, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • Vivek K Goyal, Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David H. Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
  • Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger Technology Corporation
  • Vinith Misra, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Sanjoy K. Mitter, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ha Q. Nguyen, Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Daniel V. Oppenheim, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • Eric Paniagua, California Institute of Technology
  • Sundeep Rangan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
  • Joong Bum Rhim, Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sergio D. Servetto, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University (deceased)
  • Devavrat Shah, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Per Jesper Sjöström, Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
  • Lakshminarayan Srinivasan, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Daniel D. Thomas, Jr., Syracuse Research Corporation
  • Kush R. Varshney, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • Rose Williams, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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