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Lav R. Varshney - PublicationsTheses[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)
[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)
[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. Journal Papers and Magazine Articles[15] L. R. Varshney, "The Wiring Economy Principle for Designing Inference Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1095-1104, June 2013.
[14] L. R. Varshney and J. Z. Sun, "Why Do We Perceive Logarithmically?," Significance, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 28-31, February 2013.
[13] J. Z. Sun, G. I. Wang, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "A Framework for Bayesian Optimality of Psychophysical Laws," Journal of Mathematical Psychology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 495-501, December 2012.
[12] L. R. Varshney, S. K. Mitter, and V. K. Goyal, "An Information-Theoretic Characterization of Channels That Die," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 5711-5724, September 2012.
[11] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Quantization of Prior Probabilities for Collaborative Distributed Hypothesis Testing." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 9, pp. 4537-4550, September 2012.
[10] L. R. Varshney, "The Google Effect in Doctoral Theses," Scientometrics, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 785-793, September 2012.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[2] L. R. Varshney, "Local Fidelity, Constrained Codes, and the Meru Prastara," IEEE Potentials, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 27-32, March/April 2008.
[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.
Book Chapters (excluding conference proceedings)[3] D. V. Oppenheim, L. R. Varshney, and Y.-M. Chee, "Work as a Service," in Handbook on Web Services, A. Bouguettaya, Q. Z. Sheng, and F. Daniel (eds.), Springer, 2013, to appear.[2] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Distributed Decision Making by Categorically-Thinking Agents," in Decision Making and Imperfection, T. V. Guy, M. Karny, and D. H. Wolpert (eds.), Springer, 2013.
[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.
Conference Papers[45] L. R. Varshney, F. Pinel, K. R. Varshney, A. Schörgendorfer, and Y.-M. Chee, "Cognition as a Part of Computational Creativity," to appear in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC), New York, New York, 16-18 July 2013.[44] L. R. Varshney, "To Surprise and Inform," to appear in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 7-12 July 2013. [43] L. R. Varshney, "Two Way Communication over Exponential Family Type Channels," to appear in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 7-12 July 2013. [42] A. Vempaty, L. R. Varshney, and P. K. Varshney, "Reliable Classification by Unreliable Crowds," to appear in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, 26-31 May 2013. [41] A. Mani, L. R. Varshney, and A. Pentland, "Quantization Games on Networks," to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, 20-22 March 2013. [40] S. Mehta, R. Pimplikar, A. Singh, L. R. Varshney, and K. Visweswariah, "Efficient Multifaceted Screening of Job Applicants," in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Genoa, Italy, 18-22 March 2013.
[39] L. R. Varshney, "Participation in Crowd Systems," in Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, 1-5 October 2012. (LRV Invited)
[38] L. R. Varshney, "Privacy and Reliability in Crowdsourcing Service Delivery," in Proceedings of the 2012 SRII Global Conference, San Jose, California, 24-27 July 2012. (Best Cross-Enterprise Collaboration Paper Award)
[37] R. Vaculin, Y.-M. Chee, D. V. Oppenheim, and L. R. Varshney, "Work as a Service Meta-model and Protocol for Adjustable Visibility, Coordination, and Control," in Proceedings of the 2012 SRII Global Conference, San Jose, California, 24-27 July 2012.
[36] L. Limonad, L. R. Varshney, D. V. Oppenheim, E. Fein, P. Soffer, Y. Wand, M. Gavish, and A. Anaby-Tavor, "The WaaSABE Model: Marrying WaaS and Business-Entities to Support Cross-Enterprise Collaboration," in Proceedings of the 2012 SRII Global Conference, San Jose, California, 24-27 July 2012.
[35] D. V. Oppenheim, Y.-M. Chee, and L. R. Varshney, "Allegro: A Metrics Framework for Globally Distributed Service Delivery," in Proceedings of the 2012 SRII Global Conference, San Jose, California, 24-27 July 2012.
[34] G. V. Ranade and L. R. Varshney, "To Crowdsource or not to Crowdsource?," in Proceedings of the 4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP), Toronto, Canada, 23 July 2012.
[33] L. R. Varshney, "On Energy/Information Cross-Layer Architectures," in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1-6 July 2012.
[32] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Benefits of Collaboration and Diversity in Teams of Categorically-Thinking Decision Makers," in Proceedings of the IEEE 7th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Hoboken, New Jersey, 17-20 June 2012. (1st Place in Student Paper Contest)
[31] L. R. Varshney, "Toward a Comparative Cognitive History: Archimedes and D. H. J. Polymath," in Proceedings of Collective Intelligence 2012, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 18-20 Mar. 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. (LRV Invited)
[29] J. B. Rhim, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Distributed Decision Making by Categorically-Thinking Agents," in Proceedings of the NIPS 2011 Workshop on Decision Making with Multiple Imperfect Decision Makers, Sierra Nevada, Spain, 16 December 2011.
[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 (NIPS), Granada, Spain, 13-15 December 2011.
[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 (ICSOC), Paphos, Cyprus, 5-8 December 2011.
[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.
[25] L. R. Varshney and D. V. Oppenheim, "On Cross-Enterprise Collaboration," in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), Clermont-Ferrand, France, 28 August - 2 September 2011. (Invited)
[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), St. Petersburg, Russia, 31 July - 5 August 2011.
[23] K. R. Varshney and L. R. Varshney, "Multilevel Minimax Hypothesis Testing," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Nice, France, 28-30 June 2011.
[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.
[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), Snowbird, Utah, 29-31 March 2011.
[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), Snowbird, Utah, 29-31 March 2011.
[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 (ITA), La Jolla, California, 6-11 February 2011. (LRV Invited)
[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), Palo Alto, California, 6 December 2010. (LRV Invited)
[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 (EMBC), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August - 4 September 2010.
[16] L. R. Varshney, "Distributed Inference Networks with Costly Wires," in Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference (ACC), Baltimore, Maryland, 30 June - 2 July 2010.
[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 (CISS), Princeton, New Jersey, 17-19 March 2010.
[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.
[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), Seoul, Korea, 28 June - 3 July 2009.
[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), Seoul, Korea, 28 June - 3 July 2009.
[11] L. R. Varshney, "Transporting Information and Energy Simultaneously," in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, 6-11 July 2008.
[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), Las Vegas, Nevada, 30 March - 4 April 2008.
[9] V. Misra, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "High-Resolution Functional Quantization," in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, 25-27 March 2008.
[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 (ITA), La Jolla, California, 27 January - 1 February 2008. (VKG Invited)
[7] L. R. Varshney, "Performance of LDPC Codes Under Noisy Message-Passing Decoding," in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Lake Tahoe, California, 2-6 September 2007.
[6] L. R. Varshney and D. B. Chklovskii, "On Optimal Information Storage in Synapses," in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Lake Tahoe, California, 2-6 September 2007. (LRV Invited)
[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 (ITA), La Jolla, California, 29 January - 2 February 2007. (VKG Invited)
[4] L. R. Varshney and V. K. Goyal, "Toward a Source Coding Theory for Sets," in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, 28-30 March 2006. (Capocelli Prize)
[3] L. R. Varshney and V. K. Goyal, "Ordered and Disordered Source Coding," in Proceedings of the Information Theory and its Applications Inaugural Workshop (ITA), La Jolla, California, 6-10 February 2006. (VKG Invited)
[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)
[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)
Conference Presentations[15] L. R. Varshney, "Fundamental Limits of Data Analytics for Sequential Selection," presented at 2013 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, California, 10-15 February 2013. (LRV Invited)[14] A. Mani, L. R. Varshney, and A. Pentland, "Focal Vocabularies vs. Shared Vocabularies in Social Networks: Balancing Individual Concerns and Social Exchange," presented at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks (WIDS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 8-9 November 2012. [13] L. R. Varshney, "Directed Acyclic Motifs for Conversation Analytics," presented at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks (WIDS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 8-9 November 2012. [12] D. Bhattacharjya, L. R. Varshney, F. Pinel, and Y.-M. Chee, "Computational Creativity: A Two-attribute Search Technique," presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, 14-17 October 2012.
[11] A. Wein, J. Kusuma, L. R. Varshney, A. Richardson, and L. Srinivasan, "A Path towards Robust Sub-Nyquist Spike Acquisition for Neuroscience Applications," presented at 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, California, 28 August - 1 September 2012. [10] R. Williams, W. M. Gifford, and L. R. Varshney, "Using Statistical Algorithms to Predict Abuse against Children and Prioritize Cases," presented at 18th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Washington, DC, 16-20 April 2012. [9] 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 (ITA), San Diego, California, 5-10 February 2012. [8] 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.
[7] L. R. Varshney, "Communication with Unreliable Receivers," presented at 2010 Information Theory and its Applications Workshop (ITA), La Jolla, California, 1-5 February 2010.
[6] 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 (ITA), La Jolla, California, 8-13 February 2009. (VKG Invited)
[5] L. R. Varshney, "Meeting Shannon: Information-Theoretic Thinking in Engineering and Science," presented at 2008 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Porto, Portugal, 5-9 May 2008. (LRV Invited)
[4] 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.
[3] 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.
[2] 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.
[1] L. R. Varshney and S. D. Servetto, "A Distributed Transmitter for the Sensor Reachback Problem based on Radar Signals," presented at NSF-RPI Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Networking, Troy, New York, 29-30 April 2004. 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
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