PhD candidate, EECS Dept., [[http://www.mit.edu/|MIT]]. \\
Member of the Stochastic Systems Group ([[http://ssg.mit.edu/|SSG]]), \\
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ([[http://lids.mit.edu/|LIDS]]).
I attended Appalachian State University for two years before transferring to MIT, where I graduated S.B. Physics, 1995. During the next five years, I was a member of technical staff with Alphatech Inc., where I helped develop algorithms for multi-resolution signal and image processing, data fusion and multi-target tracking. In 2000, I entered the EECS graduate program at MIT under the direction of Alan Willsky, where I earned the S.M., 2003, and am currently working to complete the PhD program.
==== Research Summary
My research has focused on the use of information theory and
convex optimization to provide principled, tractable approximation
methods for solving large-scale inference and estimation problems
involving graphical models, also known as Markov random f
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