EXPERIENCE

Justin Keith RombergCaltech Home Address1200E.California Blvd.,MC217-50302Grace Dr.Pasadena,CA91125South Pasadena,CA91030 Phone:626395-5760Phone:626590-1777Web:/~jrom Email:jrom@RESEARCH INTERESTSUncertainty principles and their relation to inverse problems,sampling theory,and low bit-rate compression. Multiresolution techniques for analyzing,processing,and understanding images.Specific applications include image estimation in the presence of noise,image classification and segmentation,pattern recognition,and image coding.Models for natural images.Efficient algorithms for statistical image processing using Bayesian techniques. Approximation theory,harmonic analysis,and their application to fundamental problems in signal processing.EDUCATIONRice University Ph.D.in Electrical and Computer Engineering,July2003M.S.in Electrical and Computer Engineering,May1999B.S.in Electrical Engineering,cum laude,May1997EXPERIENCE2003–present Caltech,Applied Mathematics Postdoctoral Scholar2004UCLA,Institute for Pure and Applied Math.Fellow2003Paris VI,Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions Visitor2001Rice University,ECE Instructor2000Xerox PARC Research Intern1999Rice University,ECE Teaching Fellow1998–2003Rice University,ECE Research Assistant1997Western Atlas Design Engineer Intern1994–1995MITRE Corporation Technical AssistantJOURNAL PUBLICATIONSE.J.Cand`e s,J.K.Romberg,and T.Tao,“Stable Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Mea-surements,”to appear in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics,2005.E.J.Cand`e s,J.K.Romberg,and T.Tao,“Robust Uncertainty Principles:Exact Signal Reconstruction from Highly Incomplete Frequency Information,”to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2005.E.J.Cand`e s and J.K.Romberg,“Quantitative Robust Uncertainty Principles and Optimally Sparse De-compositions,”to appear in Foundations of Computational Mathematics,2005.E.J.Cand`e s and J.K.Romberg,“Practical Signal Recovery from Random Projections,”Technical Report, Caltech,2005.J.K.Romberg,M.B.Wakin,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Wedgelet Modeling and Algorithms for Image Process-ing,”in preparation,to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.M.B.Wakin,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Approximation and Compression of Piecewise Smooth Images,”to appear in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,2005.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,R.G.Baraniuk,and N.G.Kingsbury,“Hidden Markov Tree Models for Complex Wavelet Transforms,”Technical Report,Rice University,2002.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Bayesian Tree-Structured Image Modeling using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Models,”IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,July2001.1INVITED PRESENTATIONS“Uncertainty Principles and Signal Recovery from Highly Incomplete Information,”Zeta White Noise Hour,Fairfax,Virginia,April2005;NIST Physics Seminar,Gaithersburg,Maryland,April2005;Cornell Signal Processing Seminar,Ithaca,New York,March2005;UCLA Image Processing Seminar,Los Angeles,California,February2005.“Robust Uncertainty Principles and Optimally Sparse Decompositions,”IPAM Workshop on Multiscale Ge-ometry and Analysis in High Dimensions,Los Angeles,California,September2004.“Uncertainty Principles,Sparse Decompositions,and Basis Pursuit,”Second International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis,Nashville,Tennessee,May2004.“Recovery of Sparse Signals from Incomplete Fourier Information,”University of Wisconsin Computer Sci-ence Seminar,Madison,Wisconsin,May2004.“Approximation and Compression of Piecewise Smooth Images,”UCLA Image Processing Seminar,Los An-geles,California,April2004.“Approximation and Compression of Piecewise Smooth Images,”Caltech EE Systems Seminar,Pasadena, California,January2004.“Approximation and Compression of Piecewise Smooth Images using Wavelets and Wedgeprints,”Labora-toire Jacques-Louis Lions M´e thodes Math´e matiques du Traitement d’Images Seminar Series,Paris,France, October2003.“Approximation and Compression of Piecewise Smooth Images using Wavelets and Wedgeprints,”´Ecole Polytechnique F´e d´e ral de Lausanne LCAV Seminar,Lausanne,Switzerland,October2003.“Multiscale Geometric Edge Modeling,”Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference at the In-stitute for Mathematics and Applications,Minneapolis,Minnesota,August2002.“Geometric Edge Models:Algorithms and Applications,”´Ecole Polytechnique F´e d´e ral de Lausanne LCAV Seminar,Lausanne,Switzerland,June2002.“Geometric Modeling of Edges in Images,”DiMACS Workshop on Source Coding and Harmonic Analysis, Piscataway,New Jersey,May2002.“Multiscale Edge Grammars for Complex Wavelet Transforms,”URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder,Colorado,January2002.“Statistical Image Processing using Complex Wavelets,”Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research—HSEMB-2001,Houston,Texas,February2001.“Wavelet-Based Statistical Image Processing using Hidden Markov Trees,”Texas Instruments DSP Leader-ship Meeting,Dallas,Texas,May1999.CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONSE.J.Cand`e s and J.K.Romberg,“Stable Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements,”SPIE Optics and Photonics:Wavelets XI,San Diego,California,August2005.E.J.Cand`e s and J.K.Romberg,“Robust Uncertainty Principles and Signal Recovery from Limited In-formation,”SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging:Computational Imaging III,San Jose, California,January2005.J.K.Romberg,M.B.Wakin,R.G.Baraniuk,“Approximation and Compression of Piecewise Smooth Im-ages Using a Wavelet/Wedgelet Geometric Model,”IEEE International Conference on Image Processing–ICIP-2003,Barcelona,Spain,September2003.J.K.Romberg,M.B.Wakin,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“A Geometric Hidden Markov Tree Wavelet Model,”Wavelets X in SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology,San Diego,Cal-ifornia,August2003.2M.B.Wakin,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Geometric Methods for Wavelet-Based Image Compression,”Wavelets X in SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology,San Diego, California,August2003.J.K.Romberg,M.Wakin,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Multiscale Geometric Image Processing,”SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing(VCIP),Lugano,Switzerland,July2003.M.B.Wakin,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Geometric Tools for Image Compression,”36th Asilomar Conference on Signals,Systems,and Computers,Pacific Grove,CA,November2002.J.K.Romberg,M.B.Wakin,R.G.Baraniuk,“Multiscale Wedgelet Image Analysis:Fast Decompositions and Modeling,”IEEE International Conference on Image Processing–ICIP-2002,Rochester,New York, September2002.M.B.Wakin,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Rate-Distortion Optimized Image Compression using Wedgelets,”IEEE International Conference on Image Processing–ICIP-2002,Rochester,New York, September2002.M.B.Wakin,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Image compression using an efficient edge cartoon+texture model,”IEEE Data Compression Conference,DCC,Snowbird,Utah,April2002.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Multiscale Edge Grammars for Complex Wavelet Trans-forms,”IEEE International Conference on Image Processing–ICIP-2001,Thessaloniki,Greece,October 2001.E.Monsen,J.Odegard,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Seismic Texture Classification by Hidden Markov Tree Modeling of the Complex Wavelet Transform”,Norwegian Signal Processing Sympo-sium—NORSIG-2001,Trondheim,Norway,October2001.K.Popat,D.H.Greene,J.K.Romberg,and D.S.Bloomberg,“Adding Linguistic Constraints to Document Image Decoding:Comparing the Iterated Complete Path and Stack Algorithms,”SPIE’s Conference on Document Imaging,2000.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,R.G.Baraniuk,and N.G.Kingsbury,“Multiscale Classification using Complex Wavelets,”2000International Conference on Image Processing–ICIP-2000,Vancouver,Canada,Septem-ber2000.J.K.Romberg,R.Riedi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Multiplicative Multiscale Image Analysis and Modeling,”SPIE’s International Symposium on Optical Science,Engineering,and Instrumentation,San Diego,July 2000.R.Neelamani,J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,R.Riedi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Multiscale Image Segmentation using Joint Texture and Shape Analysis,”SPIE’s International Symposium on Optical Science,Engineering, and Instrumentation,San Diego,July2000.H.Choi,J.K.Romberg,R.G.Baraniuk,and N.G.Kingsbury,“Hidden Markov Tree Modeling of Complex Wavelet Transforms,”IEEE Conference on Acoustics,Speech,and Signal Processing(ICASSP),Istanbul, Turkey,June2000.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Tree-Structured Image Modeling,”IEEE Southwest Sympo-sium on Image Analysis and Interpretation,Austin,TX,April2000.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Shift-Invariant Denoising using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Models,”33rd Asilomar Conference on Signals,Systems,and Computers,Pacific Grove,CA,Octo-ber1999.J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Bayesian Wavelet Domain Image Modeling using Hidden Markov Trees,”International Conference on Image Processing–ICIP-1999,Kobe,Japan,October1999. J.K.Romberg,H.Choi,and R.G.Baraniuk,“Bayesian Tree-Structured Image Modeling using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Models,”SPIE’s International Symposium on Optical Science,Engineering,and Instrumentation,Denver,CO,July1999.3PATENTSF.Fernandes,R.G.Baraniuk,J.K.Romberg,M.B.Wakin,”Method for High Quality Image Compression,”U.S.Patent Pending.D.H.Greene,J.K.Romberg,K.Popat,“Document Image Decoding Systems and Methods using Modified Stack Algorithms,”2U.S.Patents Pending.HONORS and A W ARDSEuropean Union-United States Junior Scientist Collaboration Award,2003Texas Instruments Distinguished Graduate Fellowship,1997–2003Shared“Best student paper award–NORSIG-2001”with E.Monsen,J.Odegard,H.Choi,and R.G. Baraniuk,Eta Kappa Nu memberOTHER INTERESTSBasketball,Skiing,Cycling,Racquetball,American literatureREFERENCESAvailable on request4。