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Curriculum Vitae


GAUTAM THATTE
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

thatte [at] usc [dot] edu

EDUCATION


2004-Present
Ph.D.Candidate in Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
GPA: 3.91
2003-2004
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
GPA: 3.98
1999-2003
B.S. in Engineering (with Distinction)
Harvery Mudd College, Claremont, CA
GPA: 3.68

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applications and optimizations in detection and estimation theory.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Publications

G. Thatte and U. Mitra, "Sensor Selection and Power Allocation for Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks: Beyong the Star Topology," IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing, 56(7), July 2008. PDF

Conference Publications

G. Thatte, M. Li, A. Emken, U. Mitra, S. Narayanan, M. Annavaram and D. Spruijt-Metz, "Energy-Efficient Multihypothesis Activity-Detection for Health-Monitoring Applications," in Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC'09), Minneapolis, MN, September 2009. PDF

G. Thatte, V. Rozgic, M. Li, S. Ghosh, U. Mitra, S. Narayanan, M. Annavaram and D. Spruijt-Metz, "Optimal Allocation of Time-Resources for Multihypothesis Activity-Level Detection," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'09), Marina del Rey, CA, June 2009. PDF

G. Thatte, V. Rozgic, M. Li, S. Ghosh, U. Mitra, S. Narayanan, M. Annavaram and D. Spruijt-Metz, "Optimal Time-Resource Allocation for Activity-Detection via Multimodal Sensing," in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets09), Los Angeles, CA, April 2009. PDF

M. Annavaram,  N. Medvidovic, U. Mitra, S. Narayanan, G. Sukhatme, Z. Meng, S. Qiu, R. Kumar, G. Thatte and D. Spruijt-Metz, "Multimodal Sensing for Pediatric Obesity Applications," in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems (UrbanSense08), Raleigh, NC, November 2008. PDF

G. Thatte, U. Mitra and J. Heidemann, "Detection of Low-Rate Attacks in Computer Networks," in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008. PDF

G. Thatte and U. Mitra, "Power Allocation in Linear and Tree WSN Topologies," in Proceedings of the 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Invited Paper), Asilomar, CA, October 2006. PDF

Technical Reports

G. Thatte, U. Mitra and J. Heidemann, "Parametric Methods for Anomaly Detection in Aggregate Traffic," Technical Report ISI-TR-2009-663, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, August 2009. PDF

HONORS AND AWARDS

USC Viterbi School of Engr Dean's Fellowship Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
Member Tau Beta Pi Inducted Fall 2002
HMC International Student Scholarship Fall 1999 - Spring 2003

SELECTED COURSEWORK

EE 535: Mobile Communications
EE 551: Principles of Radar
EE 553: Solutions of Optimization Problems
EE 562a: Random Processes in Engineering
EE 563: Estimation Theory
EE 564: Communication Theory
EE 568: Error Correcting Codes
EE 583: Adaptive Signal Processing
MATH 505b: Applied Probability
MATH 601: Optimization Theory and Techniques




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