RESUME

Ananya Sen Gupta

Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
98 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Ph: 617-666-3735
E-mail:
EDUCATION:
* PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-C
hampaign under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Singer in Dec 2006. Major area of
research is Communications and Signal Processing.
* MS degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the
supervision of Prof. Z.-P. Liang in August 2001. Major area of research was Ima
ge Processing.
* BE (equivalent to BS) in 1998 from the Department of Electronics and Telecommu
nications Engineering, Jadavpur University, India.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
(Aug 16th, 2008 - present) - I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher
at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under Dr. James Preisig in the area of
signal processing research in underwater acoustic communications. Besides resear
ch, as part of my postdoctoral experience I have given three guest lectures at M
IT for the graduate course in time series analysis when my professor was traveli
ng. My job also requires significant inter-disciplinary team-building skills and
I work closely with scientists and engineers of diverse backgrounds to develop
engineering systems for real-world applications.
(Jan 21, 2008 - Aug 15, 2008) - I worked as a postdoctoral research associate fo
r University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My appointment includes a visiting
lecturer appointment at the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering (
ECE) from June 16 - Aug 15, 2008. I also performed research in the area of signa
l processing and communications with particular focus on underwater communicatio
ns for Dr. Andrew Singer, my research supervisor.
(Jan 2, 2007 -Jan 18, 2008) - I worked as a Program Manager for Microsoft (Micro
soft Office Shared Services group). Key responsibilities include managing softwa
re design, user-oriented technical research, lead cross-team discussions and bui
ld consensus on different aspects of product design.
(Summer 2001) - I was summer intern at Philips Semiconductors, Hoffman Estates,
IL. (Responsibilities: coding in VC++. I designed, implemented and tested a GUI
for an ASIC test board in my intern project)
(1998-1999) - I worked as a software trainee in DAIS Infotech, India. (Responsib
ilities: coding in Java for data-mining applications, customer-oriented market r
esearch)
CORE COMPETENCIES:
I have 11+ years of experience in developing signal processing algorithms using
Matlab, and am coming from a strong signal processing research background. My pr
imary professional experience is academic but have strong industry experience in
leadership and software development skills. I am intimately familiar with Matla
b and also have experience in C, VC++ and some Java.
My leadership and team-building skills draw on my program management experience
at Microsoft but more deeply, from my two years of working in inter-disciplinary
environments and driving grant proposals with people from diverse technical and
scientific backgrounds. I am looking for a job that draws on my signal processi
ng expertise, technical strengths in numerical analysis, statistical methods and
optimization techniques, software development experience and team-building and
inter-personal skills, and helps me grow as a professional.
LEADERSHIP AND TEAM-BUILDING EXPERIENCE
My leadership and team-building skills draw on my experience as a program manage
ment in Microsoft where I worked across different teams to build consensus over
software design, interacted closely with usability researchers, developers, test
ers, and other managers, participated in usability studies and customer site vis
its, researched the competition and wrote technical specifications for the next
product cycle.
But my most significant leadership opportunities have been at my current job, wh
ich has a high focus on building research programs in an inter-disciplinary soft
-money environment to study and build real-world engineering systems. This has r
equired me to play an active role as the principal investigator of grant proposa
ls I have written, and have enjoyed working closely with people from diverse tec
hnical and scientific backgrounds to understand their needs and build consensus
on what we wish to build, the technical issues involved, and how to solve them t
o meet the common goal of the program.
I am also an active member of the International Committee at my organization and
strive to make my workplace supportive of the unique challenges and needs of ou
r international employees.
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
I helped my professor advise his graduate students during my postdoctoral term a
t UIUC and have also been actively involved with graduate students working in my
area at WHOI. I have also mentored my students through grad school in my years
of teaching as a TA and later, as a lecturer at UIUC.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE
I co-organized the special session on "Sparse Approximations" at the 159th Meeti
ng Of The Acoustical Society Of America, Baltimore, MD, April 19-23, 2010.
I have also reviewed several journal articles for IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE J
ournal of Oceanic Engineering, and among recent conferences have reviewed articl
es for the SYMPOL Ocean Electronics symposium in Cochi, India for which the Ocea
nic Engineering Society is technical co-sponsor.
INVITED TALKS
[1] Ananya Sen Gupta, "Signal processing for real environments: when traditional
assumptions are violated", invited talk scheduled for Nov 5, 2010 at the Univer
sity of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer
ing (Host: John Buck)
[2] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Sparse Sensing Approach to Shallow Water Acoustics", de
partmental seminar given on April 23, 2010 at the University of Delaware
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (Host: Mohsen Badiey)
[3] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Geometric Approach to Signal Processing Problems", Col
loquium talk given at Electrical Engineering department, University of Washingto
n (Host: Eve Riskin) on 10/13/2009.
[4] Ananya Sen Gupta, "Interference Suppression and Detection in Time-Varying an
d Non-linear Environments", given as the departmental seminar at the Department
of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA on 12/03/2008.
[5] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Structural Approach to Multi-user Interference Suppress
ion", given as the Ocean Acoustics Lab seminar at the Department of Applied Ocea
n Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
on 12/05/2007.
[6] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Structural Approach to Multi-user Interference Suppress
ion", given at University of Washington on 11/20/2007 (Host: Mari Ostendorf)
[7] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Structural Approach to Multi-user Interference Suppress
ion", given to Phil Chou's group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA on 9/19/2007
.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, granted by the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Aug 2008-Feb.2010.
2. Sundaram Seshu summer fellowship, awarded by the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
3. Perry Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engine
ering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for the academic year 2004-20
05.
4. Monibala Roy Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal, awarded by Jadavpur Univers
ity, Calcutta on 24th Dec., 1998 for best graduating woman in the College of Eng
ineering .
5. IEEE First Prize for the best student paper in the IEEE M.V.Chauhan All-India
Student Paper Contest in 1997.
Awards won in India for academic excellence in very competitive state and nation
al level examinations:
6. Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search National Scholarship (awarded to
about 10 students in Indian universities every year), 1994-1998. This award incl
udes a stipend, book grant and sponsored travel each year to different research
institutes all over India.
7. Plaque of academic recognition from West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary E
ducation for ranking twelfth (total of approximately 300,000 students) in Higher
Secondary Examination, 1994 and other state awards.
8. Governor's Certificate of Appreciation for securing third position out of app
roximately 500,000 students in Madhyamik Pariksha ( Secondary Examination : +10
level) in 1992.
9. West Bengal Board of Secondary Education's certificate of appreciation and sc
holarship for securing third position in Secondary Examination (+10 level) in 19
92.
10. National Prize and Certificate of Merit in lieu of National Scholarship from
the office of Director of Public Instruction, West Bengal for academic performa
nce in the Higher Secondary Examination in 1994.
11. National Prize and Certificate of Merit in lieu of National Scholarship from
the Office of the Deputy Director of Public Instruction for academic excellence
in Secondary Examination ( +10 level) in 1992.
12. Governor's Medal ("Rajyapal Padak"), prize and gift check from B.C.Roy Memor
ial Committee for outstanding academic performance in Madhyamik Pariksha ( Secon
dary Examination : +10 level) in 1992.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Tau Beta Pi (initiation in Fall 2006), IEEE, Acoustic
al Society of America.
PUBLICATIONS:
Published journal articles
[1] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "A structural approach to successive interf
erence cancellation", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Dec 2007, Volume 55, number
12, pages 5716-5730.
[2] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "Interference suppression for multi-user sy
stems with known memoryless non-linearity", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Volum
e 56, Issue 11, Nov. 2008 Page(s):5589 - 5604.
Journal articles under review:
[1]Ananya Sen Gupta, James Preisig, "A Geometric Mixed Norm Approach to Shallow
Water Acoustic Channel Estimation and Tracking", submitted to IEEE Transactions
in Signal Processing, expect initial decision Oct 2010. (If accepted, expected d
ate of publication will be Feb. 2010)
[2]Ananya Sen Gupta, Jill Nelson, Jim Preisig, Andrew Singer, "A Geometric Appro
ach to Improve Interference Mitigation In Multi-user Detection and Equalization,
" revised manuscript sumitted to IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing, final d
ecision expected Oct. 2010, and (if accepted) expected date of publication is De
c 2010.
Journal work in progress:
[1] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "Multi-user Detection using Energy Contours
", expect to submit to IEEE Signal Processing by Oct. 2010. (manuscript ready to
submit)
[2] Ananya Sen Gupta, James Preisig, "Shallow water channel characterization und
er different environmental conditions", invited manuscript, to be submitted to E
lsevier Physical Communication Journal by Dec 2010.
[3] Ananya Sen Gupta, James Lynch, "(Tentative title) Geometric modeling of arri
val time of delayed multi-paths in shallow water acoustic communications", expec
t to get data-driven results by Nov 2010 and submit to JASA by Jan 2010.
[4] Ananya Sen Gupta and Dennis McGillicuddy, "(Tentative title) Biological mode
l validation using L1-LS techniques", expect to get results by Nov 2010 and subm
it by Jan 2010.
Invited articles and abstracts
[1] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "Multi-stage detection using constellation
structure", Proc. Asilomar 2006 .
[2] Ananya Sen Gupta, "Beats", abstract submitted as invited lecture and demonst
ration to the girl scouts in a special session sponsored by the technical commit
tee on Education in the 159th Meeting Of The Acoustical Society Of America, Balt
imore, MD, April 19-23, 2010.
[3] Ananya Sen Gupta, "Amplification", abstract submitted as invited lecture and
demonstration to the girl scouts in a special session sponsored by the technica
l committee on Education in the 159th Meeting Of The Acoustical Society Of Ameri
ca, Baltimore, MD, April 19-23,2010.
Conference articles:
Contributed articles
[1] Weiwei Zhou, Jill Nelson, Ananya Sen Gupta, "Adaptive maximal asymptotic eff
iciency equalization using constellation mapping", submitted to Proc. of IEEE Si
gnal Processing Society 14th DSP Workshop & 6th SPE Workshop, Enchantment Resort
, Sedona, Arizona, USA, January 4-7, 2011
[2]Ananya Sen Gupta, James Preisig, "Tracking the Time-varying Sparsity of Chann
el Coefficients in Shallow Water Acoustic Communications", Proc. Asilomar Conf.
on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 7-10, 2010.
[3]Ananya Sen Gupta, "Combining array processing and sparse sensing approaches t
o oceanography: methods and applications", Proc. Oceans 2010, Seattle, Sept. 20-
23, 2010.
[4]Ananya Sen Gupta, James Preisig, "A Geometric Mixed Norm Approach to Shallow
Water Acoustic Channel Estimation", Proc. European Conference on Underwater Acou
stics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 5-9, 2010.
[5] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "Maximal conditional efficiency successive
interference cancellation", in Proc. ICASSP 2006.
[6] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "Successive interference annulment for mult
i-user systems with known non-linearity", in Proc. CISS 2006.
[7] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, " Near far Resistant Multiuser Detector usi
ng Energy Contours", Proceedings of ICASSP, May 21-24, 2004.
[8] Ananya Sen Gupta, Andrew Singer, "Linear Complexity Multiuser Detector using
Successive Interference Cancellation", Proc. of Asilomar conference, Pacific Gr
ove, CA, Nov. 9-12, 2003.
[9] Ananya Sen Gupta, Z.-P. Liang, "Dynamic Imaging by Temporal Modeling using P
rincipal Component Analysis", in Proc. ISMRM Annual Conference, Glasgow, April 2
1-27, 2001.
[10] Ananya Sen Gupta, "Image Compression by Motion Vector Estimation", in Proc.
IEEE (India) student paper contest, 1997. (This article won the best student pa
per award in the IEEE India chapter)
[11] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Conceptual Model for Intelligent and Adaptive Networks
", in Proceedings of International Conference on CODEC (Computers and Devices fo
r Communications), Science City, Calcutta, India, 1997.
Thesis:
[1] Ananya Sen Gupta, "Dynamic Imaging by Temporal Modeling using Principal Comp
onent Analysis", MS Thesis, Aug. 2001.
[2] Ananya Sen Gupta, "A Structural Approach to Multi-user Detection", PhD Thesi
s, Dec 2006.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Fall 2008: As part of my postdoctoral experience I have given three guest lectur
es at MIT for the graduate course in time series analysis when my professor was
traveling.
Summer 2008: Lecturer in senior/graduate level DSP course (ECE410) in Summer II
term.
Fall 2000-Fall 2005: Graduate Teaching assistant for several semesters for the g
raduate courses in Digital Signal Processing (ECE551) and Control Systems (ECE51
5) and the senior-level course in DSP (ECE410)
HOBBIES, OTHER ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS THROUGH THESE ACTIVITIES:
SPICMACAY (Indian classical music), CU Balladi association, Bengali Students Ass
ociation (dance, music, cultural activities), Boston Tango. I am a poet, dancer,
artist, and an avid hiker and adventure-seeking explorer. I care deeply about i
ssues that affect the underprivileged, local and global, and have performed for
a number of charity events benefiting several organizations such as American Can
cer Society, Warchild, KCSA, and the Cosmopolitan Club.