Marco Duarte wins prestigious IPAM postdoctoral fellowship
Rice DSP graduate student Marco Duarte has been awarded a prestigious IPAM postdoctoral fellowship. Duarte was among only 45 of the over 800 applicants to receive the award.
Duarte will work with faculty in the Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Departments at Princeton University on new applications of computer science, including machine learning and compressed sensing. Professors Robert Calderbank (Princeton) describes this research as “building mathematical tools to find needles in haystacks.” For example, compressed sensing is an ingenious method for extracting nearly complete information from a large dataset with very few measurements. An outstanding example is the work of Professors Richard Baraniuk and his research group including Duarte at Rice University, on the single-pixel camera, which was recently selected by MIT Technology Review as one of their TR10 Emerging Technologies to Watch.
Duarte is also quoted in the UCLA Today article: Math's rising stars rescued from dismal job market.