Michael Gastpar
Research Areas
Biography
Michael Gastpar is a Professor at EPFL and was formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He was an Assistant Professor 2003-2008 and a tenured Associate Professor 2008-2011 at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a faculty position at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and he spent time as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. in 1997 from ETH Zürich, his MS in 1999 from UIUC, and his Dr. ès sc. in 2002 from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland.
His research interests are in network information theory and related coding and signal processing techniques, with applications to sensor networks and neuroscience.
He won the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award, an NSF CAREER award in 2004, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2008, and an ERC Starting Grant in 2010. He is an Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2011). He has served as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2008-11), and as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX.
Selected Publications
- K. So, A. Koralek, K. Ganguly, M. Gastpar, and J. M. Carmena, "Assessing functional connectivity of neural ensembles using directed information," Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 9, no. 2, Jan. 2012.
- B. Sirkeci-Mergen and M. Gastpar, "On the Broadcast Capacity of Wireless Networks With Cooperative Relays," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 3847-3861, Aug. 2010.
- A. Sarwate and M. Gastpar, "Rateless Codes for AVC Models," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 3105-3114, July 2010.
- A. Y. Yang, M. Gastpar, R. Bajcsy, and S. S. Sastry, "Distributed Sensor Perception via Sparse Representation," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 98, no. 6, pp. 1077-1088, June 2010.
- M. Gastpar, P. R. Gill, A. G. Huth, and F. E. Theunissen, "Anthropic Correction of Information Estimates and Its Application to Neural Coding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 890-900, Feb. 2010.
- K. Eswaran, A. Sarwate, A. Sahai, and M. Gastpar, "Zero-rate feedback can achieve the empirical capacity," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 25-39, Jan. 2010.
- B. A. Nazer and M. Gastpar, "The case for structured random codes in network capacity theorems," European Trans. Telecommunication: Special Issue on New Directions in Information Theory, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 455-474, June 2008.
- B. A. Nazer and M. Gastpar, "Computation over multiple-access channels," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3498-3516, Oct. 2007.
- M. Gastpar, "Information-theoretic bounds on sensor network performance," in Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications, A. Swami, Q. Zhao, Y. Hong, and L. Tong, Eds., Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007, pp. 9-41.
- M. Gastpar, "On capacity under receive and spatial spectrum-sharing constraints," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 471-487, Feb. 2007.
- M. Gastpar, P. L. Dragotti, and M. Vetterli, "The distributed Karhunen-Loeve transform," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 5177-5196, Dec. 2006.
- M. Gastpar, M. Vetterli, and P. L. Dragotti, "Sensing reality and communicating bits: A dangerous liaison," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 70-83, July 2006.
- G. Kramer and M. Gastpar, "Dependence balance and the Gaussian multiaccess channel with feedback," in Proc. 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 198-202.
- M. Gastpar and G. Kramer, "On cooperation via noisy feedback," in Proc. 2006 Intl. Zurich Seminar on Communications, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 146-149.
- G. Kramer, M. Gastpar, and P. Gupta, "Cooperative strategies and capacity theorems for relay networks," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 3037-3063, Sep. 2005.
- M. Gastpar and M. Vetterli, "Power, spatio-temporal bandwidth, and distortion in large sensor networks," IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 745-754, April 2005.
- M. Gastpar and M. Vetterli, "On the capacity of large Gaussian relay networks," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 765-779, March 2005.
- M. Gastpar, "The Wyner-Ziv problem with multiple sources," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 2762-2768, Nov. 2004.
- M. Gastpar, B. Rimoldi, and M. Vetterli, "To code, or not to code: Lossy source-channel communication revisited," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1147-1158, May 2003.
- M. Gastpar and M. Vetterli, "On the capacity of wireless networks: The relay case," in Proc. IEEE 2002 Information Communications Conf. (INFOCOM 2002): 21st Annual Joint Conf. of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, Vol. 3, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2002, pp. 1577-1586.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
- Okawa Research Grant, 2008
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