Arya Mazumdar I have moved. This is my old website. Please find the new one HERE. Postdoctoral Associate Signals, Information and Algorithms Laboratory Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT, Room # 36-689 Phone: 617-253-2197 email: aryam AT mit.edu I will be joining the faculty of University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, as an Assistant Professor in January 2013. I have graduated with a PhD in May 2011 by defending my thesis, Combinatorial Methods in Coding Theory on April 4th, 2011. My PhD advisor was Alexander Barg. I have done research internships in IBM Almaden Research Center in Summer 2010, and in HP Labs, Palo Alto, in Summer 2008. I have also spent few months in Atrenta, Noida, before coming to Maryland. See complete list of my publications.

My thesis is winner of the 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Award. Best Student Paper Award, ISIT 2010, for our Codes in Permutations for Flash Memory!

Most recent papers:

• Arya Mazumdar, On Almost Disjunct Matrices for Group Testing, Int. Sym. Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2012).
• Arya Mazumdar, Ligong Wang, Covering Arbitrary Point Patterns, Allerton 2012.
• Yuval Kochman, Arya Mazumdar, Yury Polyanskiy, Results on the Combinatorial Joint Source-Channel Coding, ITW 2012.
• Yuval Kochman, Arya Mazumdar, Yury Polyanskiy, The Adversarial Joint Source Channel Coding Problem, ISIT 2012.
• Arya Mazumdar, Gregory W. Wornell, Venkat Chandar Update Efficient Codes for Error Correction, ISIT 2012.

My PhD thesis research was on combinatorial aspects of Error-Correcting Codes. However I have a broad research interest that includes the following topics:

• Communication and Networking
  
• Compressed Sensing, Signal Processing, Sampling Schemes and Learning
  
• Error-Correcting Codes, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
• Information Theory, Random Processes and Probabilistic Methods
• Memory and Storage
  

My Erdös number is 3. There are 3 possible paths!