Dr. P Vaidyanathan

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Biography

P. Vaidyanathan is a Kiyo Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Calcutta in 1974, followed by a Bachelor of Technology in 1977 and a Master of Technology in 1979. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1982. He began his academic career at Caltech as an Assistant Professor in 1983, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988, became a full Professor in 1993, and was appointed as the Tomiyasu Professor in 2018. Throughout his career, Dr. Vaidyanathan has been engaged in theoretical and practical aspects of digital signal processing, focusing on a wide variety of problems including sparse sampling in multiple dimensions, network signal processing, and the application of these methods in digital communications, array processing, and radar signal processing.

Research Interests

Sparse Sampling Network Signal Processing Number Theoretic Signal Processing Digital Communications Array Processing Radar Signal Processing Genomic Signal Processing Multirate Systems Filter Banks

Courses

EE 111 – Signal-Processing Systems Transforms EE 1 – Science Data, Signals, Information EE 112 – Introduction Signal Processing Data

Requirements for California Institute of Technology

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong background in mathematics and physical sciences
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