Mahesh C. Shastry

About Me

• I am a PhD candidate at Penn State.

• My research interests are primarily in the area of signal processing. Thus far, compressive sensing, ill-posed linear inverse problems, numerical optimization, and time-frequency analysis have interested me. In the past I have also worked on discrete non-linear dynamical systems.

• Though I am currently looking at applications in radar imaging, it is the underlying principles of signal processing and mathematics that I truly love.

• Ph. D. (August 2009 - Present) EE Department, The Pennsylvania State University

• M. A. (August 2009 - Present) Mathematics Department, The Pennsylvania State University

• M. S. (August 2007- August 2009) EE Department,The Pennsylvania State University

CV

• You can find my CV here.

• Please click on the links to your left to know more about me.

Teaching

• I will be teaching EE330 (Engineering Electromagnetics) in Summer 2012.

  • The course website for EE330 is www.personal.psu.edu/mcs312/ee330.html

  • Watch this space for more information.

Publications

1. M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan, M. Rangaswamy, “Waveform Design for Compressive Radar Imaging Using Overcomplete Dictionaries,” in preparation.

2. M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan, M. Rangaswamy, “Analysis of Compressive Stochastic-Waveform Radar Imaging,” in preparation.

3. M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan, M. Rangaswamy, “Band-limited Waveforms in Compressive Imaging,” SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference 2012, Baltimore, MD (to be presented on Apr 28; paper to appear in subsequent proceedings)

4. M. C. Shastry, Y. Kwon, R. M. Narayanan, M. Rangaswamy, “Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Compressive Sensing Based Noise Radar Noise Radar Systems,” IEEE Sensor Array Multichannel Conference 2012, Hoboken, NJ (to be presented between Jun 17 and 20; paper to appear in subsequent proceedings) (M. C. Shastry and Y. Kwon contributed equally to this paper.)

5. P. H. Chen, M. C. Shastry, C. P. Lai, R. M. Narayanan, “A portable real-time digital noise radar system for through-the-wall imaging,” IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, Vol. 50, No. 10, to appear, 2012.

6. A. Roman, S. Jolad, M. C. Shastry, “A Bounded Divergence Measure Based on The Bhattacharya Coefficient,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, (ArXiv pre-print)

7. M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan, M. Rangaswamy, “Compressive Radar Imaging Using White Stochastic Waveforms,” in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Waveform Diversity and Design, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, August 2010. (link)

8. R. M. Narayanan, M. C. Shastry, P.-H. Chen and M. Levi, “Through-the-Wall Detection of Stationary Human Targets Using Doppler Radar,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 20, 147-166, 2010 (link)

9. R. M. Narayanan, M. C. Shastry, P.-H. Chen and M. Levi, “Through-the-Wall Detection of Stationary Human Targets Using Doppler Radar,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 20, 147-166, 2010 (link)

Posters:

• M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan, “Performance of Basis Pursuit Denoising Algorithm for Compressive Sensing Applications Involving Partial Random Toeplitz Matrices,” poster Fall Fourier Talks at The University of Maryland- Norbert Wiener Center for Applied Harmonic Analysis, February 2010.

• N. Nagaraj, M. C. Shastry, P. G. Vaidya, “Stochastic switching of deterministic chaotic systems on a finite precision: Implications ot chaos and randomness,” International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 2007;

On March 1, 2011, I spoke on compressive sensing at the Electrical Engineering Department Colloquium at The Pennsyvania State University.

Here are the slides from my talk which was titled “Compressive Sensing: Theory, Algorithms, and Some Applications”