Mahesh Shastry's Homepage

Welcome to Mahesh Shastry's Homepage

[e-mail: mcs312 at the rate of psu dot edu]

Follow the links on the top of this page to learn more about me.

In the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am a PhD student at Penn State, and am having a great time here. Then as I grew young, I got my MS in Electrical Engineering at Penn State in 2009. When I became younger still, I got tired of the winter in central PA, and went to the Indian coastal paradise of Surathkal to get my B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. It was fun. However, it was too much fun, so I decided it was time for some drudgery. I did my 11th and 12th (or 1st and 2nd 'pre-university college (PUC)' as they call it back home) from MES Junior College. After that I probably had some of the best time of my life as a wayward kid menacing the streets of Malleswaram, (in Bangalore) and occasionally attended MES Kishora Kendra High School. That was when I became a native of the wonderful state of Karnataka, and what used to be the sleepy pensioner's town of Bangalore.

In my free time, I volunteer with Association for India's Development (AID), State College/Penn State Chapter. Please learn more about AID and how you can make a difference to bring sustainable and equitable development to India.

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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
- Richard Feynman

Not all who wander are lost. - JRR Tolkien

God doesn't play with dice, but something strange is certainly going on with prime numbers. -Paul Erdos

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a cold and austere beauty, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure. The spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics.
- Bertrand Russel

You can check out my old web-site here.

     The Road goes ever on and on
      Down from the door where it began,
      Now far ahead the Road has gone,
      And I must follow if I can,
      Pursuing it with eager feet,
      Until it joins some larger way
      Where many path and errands meet.
      And whither then? I cannot say
                                                        - JRR Tolkien

Last updated: 9/10/2009

Now

I am a third year graduate student (PhD candidate) at the Electrical Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

I am a Research Assistant in Professor Ram Narayanan's Radars and Communications Research Group at the Communications and Space Systems Laboratory, EE Department, The Pennsylvania State University.

My Research Interests

Applications of signal processing to system identification, in general. Compressive sensing, time-frequency analysis, inverse problems in electromagnetics, stochastic waveform radar, and nonlinear dynamics.

The picture below is of me posing with one of my idols- Nikola Tesla.