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Rui Pires da Silva Castro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests span borderline signal processing, learning theory statistics, non-parametric high-dimensional statistics, and statistical signal image processing. He is particularly focused on network inference and pattern recognition, as well as active learning techniques and sequential experimental design. Rui's work includes the development of learning and sampling procedures that adapt to the information gleaned from samples. Applications of his research encompass network monitoring and effective spectrum analysis methods for opportunistic transmission in cognitive radio environments. He has contributed significantly to the field with prior work on Distilled Sensing, which uses multi-step, selective sampling procedures for recovering sparse signals under noisy observations, resulting in considerable improvements over traditional non-adaptive sensing methods. Rui has a strong academic background with a Licenciatura degree in aerospace engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (1998) and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University (2008). Throughout his career, he has been a visiting researcher and held academic positions, including a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin and an Assistant Professor position at Columbia University.
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University •
University of Wisconsin •
Communication Theory and Pattern Recognition Group, Institute of Telecommunications, Lisbon •
Mathematics Research Center, Bell Laboratories Research •
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