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Thesis

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

Book Chapter

[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

Preprints

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

[] V. Misra, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Distributed Functional Scalar Quantization: High-Resolution Analysis and Extensions." arXiv

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

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

[] L. R. Varshney "Performance of LDPC Codes Under Faulty Iterative Decoding." arXiv

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

Journal Papers and Magazine Articles

[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, Oct. 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, Nov. 2006. Cell Press

Conference Papers

[13] L. R. Varshney, J. Kusuma, and V. K. Goyal, "Malleable Coding with Edit-Distance Cost," to be presented at 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), 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," to be presented at 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), 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 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 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 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

[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 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, R. K. Varshney, P. Kumar, J. M. Singh, and R. Prasad, Eds. Aligarh, India: Systems Society of India Punjab Chapter, 2005, pp. 144-148.

Invited Presentations

[5] L. R. Varshney, "Decoding LDPC Codes with Faulty Iterative Decoders," Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 May 2008.

[4] L. R. Varshney, "Decoding LDPC Codes with Faulty Iterative Decoders," Departamento de Ciência de Computadores, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 12 May 2008.

[3] L. R. Varshney, "Performance of LDPC Codes Under Noisy Message-Passing Decoding," Networking, Communications, and DSP Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 29 August 2007.

[2] L. R. Varshney, "On Optimal Synaptic Information Storage: Shannon Meets Ramón y Cajal," Biomedical Imaging and Analysis Seminar, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 19 October 2006.

[1] L. R. Varshney, "Sidelobe Control for Pulse Compression Radar," Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 8 January 2004.

Honors Project

L. R. Varshney, "A Distributed Transmitter for Sensor Network Reachback Communication based on Radar Signals," School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 23 May 2004.

Collaborators

  • Ha Q. Nguyen, Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger Technology Corporation
  • Kush R. Varshney, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Vinith Misra, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Vivek K Goyal, Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Dmitri B. Chklovskii, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Per Jesper Sjöström, Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
  • Sergio D. Servetto, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University (deceased)
  • Daniel D. Thomas, Jr., Syracuse Research Corporation
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