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== Sunil K Narang ==
 
== Sunil K Narang ==
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Software Development Engineer
  
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Microsoft Bing
  
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Ph.D. student
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One Microsoft Way
  
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Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems
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Redmond, WA 98052-6399
  
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University of Southern California
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USA
  
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Los Angeles, CA
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Email: narang.sunil@gmail.com
  
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E-mail: kumarsun@usc.edu
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilknarang
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Advisor: [http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega Antonio Ortega]
 
  
 
== Research Interests ==
 
== Research Interests ==
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* Signal Processing on Graphs
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* Graph Signal Processing,
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* Image Processing
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* Statistics and Data-mining on Graphs,
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* Wavelet Transforms
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* Digital Signal/Image processing,
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* Machine Learning,
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* Distributed Compression,
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* Wavelet Transforms,
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* High Performance Computing
  
 
== Education ==
 
== Education ==
 
*Aug. 2007-present:    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA  
 
*Aug. 2007-present:    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA  
 
**Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
 
**Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
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*Sep. 2005-May 2007: IBM India Research Lab (IRL), New Delhi, India 
 
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**Technical Staff Member, Systems Group, High Performance Computing Group
 
 
*Aug. 2001-Jun. 2005:  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
 
*Aug. 2001-Jun. 2005:  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
 
**Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, Jun. 2005, Department of Electrical Engineering
 
**Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, Jun. 2005, Department of Electrical Engineering
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== Professional Experience ==
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* Microsoft Bing: July 2013 onwards
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* Department of Electrical Engineering USC: July 2012 - July 2013
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** Postdoctoral research associate [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Resume/CV1.pdf <small><b>(CV)</b></small>][http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xt3XO0UKEqY<small><b> Overview (video)</b></small>]
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** Advisor: [http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega Antonio Ortega]
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*[http://www.watson.ibm.com/index.shtml IBM Watson Research Lab, Yorktown]:  May 2010 - Aug. 2010
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**Summer Intern, Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences (BAMS) Group
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*[http://www.research.ibm.com/irl IBM India Research Lab]:  Dec 2005 - July. 2007
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**Technical Staff Member in Systems, High Performance Computing Group
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*[http://www.masconlifesciences.com/ Mascon Life Sciences]:  Sep 2005 - Dec. 2005
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**Executive Software Engineer
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**Design and development of bioinformatics projects like Gel Image Analysis, QTL Mapping and Gene Prediction.
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== Honors / Awards ==
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* Best Research Paper Award 2012 by Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
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* [http://mhi.usc.edu/scholars/scholar-alumni/ Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholarship](Aug 2011- Aug2012)
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*[http://www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool/current_fellowships_03.html Annenberg Graduate Fellowship](Aug.2007 - July 2009)
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* Research Assistance Award (Aug 2009 - Present)
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== Patents ==
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<ul>
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<li>
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A. Ortega, '''S.K. Narang''', G. Shen, and J. Perez-Trufero, "Distributed Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks", <i>January~19 2012, US Patent 20,120,014,289</i>
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<li> J.  J.  Lee,  H.  C.  Wey,  G.  Shen,  W.  S.  Kim,  A.  Ortega, '''S. K. Narang''',  D.Park, "System and method for encoding/decoding videos using edge-adaptive transform", <i>Oct 2013, US Patent 20130272422 A1.</i>
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</ul>
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== PhD Dissertation ==
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<ul>
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S. K. Narang, '''Critically sampled wavelet filterbanks on graphs.''' University of Southern California. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, , 132. Retrieved from http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega/PhDTheses/SunilKNarang.pdf, 2012.
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<li>
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</ul>
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== Journal Publications ==
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<ul>
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<li> David I Shuman, '''Sunil K. Narang''', Pascal Frossard, Antonio Ortega, Pierre Vandergheynst, "Signal Processing on Graphs: Extending High-Dimensional Data Analysis to Networks and Other Irregular Data Domains",<i> to appear SPM 2013, arXiv:1211.0053 </i>
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<li> '''S. K. Narang''' and Antonio Ortega, "Compact Support Biorthogonal Wavelet Filterbanks for Arbitrary Undirected Graphs", <i>under review IEEE TSP, arXiv:1210.8129</i>
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<li>
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'''S. K. Narang''' and Antonio Ortega, "Perfect Reconstruction Two-Channel Wavelet Filter-Banks For Graph Structured Data", <i>IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)</i>[http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3693<small><b> PDF format</b></small>],
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[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Codes/Graph-QMF-toolbox1.3.zip<small><b> Matlab Toolbox</b></small>]
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<li> '''S. Kumar''', R. Gupta, N. Khanna, S. Chaudhury and S.D. Joshi, "Text Extraction and Document Image Segmentation Using Matched Wavelets and MRF Model,". <i> IEEE Transactions on Image Processing(TIP), </i></ul>
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== Conference Publications ==
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<ul>
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<li>'''S.K. Narang''', Y. H. Chao and A. Ortega, "Graph-wavelet filterbanks for edge-aware image processing",<i> IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'12)</i>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> M. Levorato, ''' S.K. Narang''', U. Mitra, A. Ortega, ''Reduced Dimension Policy Iteration for Wireless Network Control via Multiscale Analysis, <i> GlobeCom 12 </i>
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'''Best Paper Award'''
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>'''S.K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Multi-dimensional separable critically sampled wavelet filterbanks on arbitrary graphs",<i>IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12)</i>[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/ICASSP2012Sunil.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>],[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Posters/ICASSP2012.pdf <small><b> Poster</b></small>]
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>Woo-Shik Kim, '''S.K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Graph based transforms for depth video coding",<i>IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12)</i>[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/GBT_ICASSP2011_wskim.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>'''S.K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Downsampling Graphs Using Spectral Theory",<i>IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11),</i> [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/ICASSP11Downsampling.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>],
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[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Posters/ICASSPPoster2011.pdf <small><b> Poster</b></small>]
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</ul> 
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<ul><li>J. P.-Trufero, '''S.K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Distributed Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Arbitrary
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Networks",<i>Intl. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP'11),</i>[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Posters/ICIPPoster2011.pdf <small><b> Presentation</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> G. Shen, W.-S. Kim, '''S. K. Narang''', A. Ortega, J. Lee, and H. Wey, "Edge-adaptive transforms for efficient depth-map coding," <i> Picture Coding Symposium (PCS ‘10), Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 2010.</i>[http://biron.usc.edu/~wooshikk/PCS10.pdf <small><b>PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>'''S.K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Local Two-Channel Critically Sampled Filter-Banks On Graphs",<i>Intl. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP'10),</i>[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/ICIP10GraphTransform.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>],
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[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Posters/ICIPPoster2010.pdf <small><b> Poster</b></small>]
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> '''S.K. Narang''', G. Shen and A. Ortega, "Unidirectional Graph-based Wavelet Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks". <i>IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10),</i> April 2010.
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[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/ICASSP10_Broadcast.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> '''S. K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Lifting Based Wavelet Transforms on Graphs". <i>APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2009)</i> Sapporo, Japan [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/APSIPA_09_Graph_Lifting.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> G. Shen, '''S. K. Narang''' and A. Ortega, "Adaptive Distributed Transforms for Irregularly Sampled Wireless Sensor Networks". <i> IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09),</i> Taipei, April 2009.
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[http://biron.usc.edu/~godwinsh/Papers/ICASSP09_Filter_Opt.pdf <small><b>PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> A.R. Choudhury, A. King, '''S. Kumar''' and Y. Sabharwal, "Optimizations in financial engineering: The Least-Squares Monte Carlo method of Longstaff and Schwartz". <i> In Proc. of 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing. (IPDPS 2008):pp 1-11 April 2008 </i></ul>
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<ul>
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<li> A. Gupta, '''S. Kumar''', R. Gupta, S. Chaudhury, S. D. Joshi, "Enhancement of Old Manuscript Images". <i>International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007)</i>: vol2 744-748 Sep. 2007 [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/ICDAR_2007.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> '''S. Kumar''', N. Khanna, S. Chaudhury, S. D. Joshi, "Locating Text in Images using Matched Wavelets". <i>International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005) </i>: vol2 595-599 Sep. 2005
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[http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/papers/ICDAR_2005.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>] </ul>
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== Invited Talks ==
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<ul>
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<li>S. K. Narang, "Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs: A New Tool for Multiresolution Analysis". <i>UC San Diego, Dec 2012 </i> [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Talks/Sunil_UCSD_GraphWavelets2012.pdf<small><b> Presentation</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> S. K. Narang, "Critically Sampled Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs". <i>CommNetS seminar, USC, Jan 2012 </i> [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Talks/sunil_commnets.pdf <small><b> Presentation</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>ITA graduation day, San Diego, Feb. 2012, [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Posters/ITAPoster.pdf <small><b> Poster</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> MHI Scholar 4 minute Research Pitch [http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xt3XO0UKEqY<small><b> YouTube Link</b></small>] </ul>
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== Course Reports ==
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<ul>
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<li> S. K. Narang, "Community detection in Social Networks using Wavelets". <i>Semester Project Report: EE596(Wavelets) Fall 2008 </i> USC [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Reports/EE596.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> S. K. Narang, "Compress Sensing of Public Opinion in a Social
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Network Using Ising Model". <i> Semester Project Report: EE599(Large Scale Systems and Message Passing Algorithms) Fall 2009 </i> USC [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Reports/EE599.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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<ul>
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<li> S. K. Narang, "Low Dynamic Range (LDR) Video Camera System". <i> Semester Project Report: EE586L(Advanced Digital Signal Processing Lab) Spring 2009 </i> USC [http://biron.usc.edu/~kumarsun/Reports/EE586L.pdf <small><b> PDF format</b></small>]</ul>
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== Software ==
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*[http://biron.usc.edu/wiki/index.php/Graph_Filterbanks Graph Filterbanks]
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*[http://biron.usc.edu/wiki/index.php/BlockGraphTransforms Edge-adaptive transforms for efficient depth map coding.]

Latest revision as of 12:28, 10 October 2015

Sunil K Narang

Profile Image

Software Development Engineer

Microsoft Bing

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052-6399

USA

Email: narang.sunil@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilknarang

Research Interests

  • Graph Signal Processing,
  • Statistics and Data-mining on Graphs,
  • Digital Signal/Image processing,
  • Machine Learning,
  • Distributed Compression,
  • Wavelet Transforms,
  • High Performance Computing

Education

  • Aug. 2007-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    • Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
  • Aug. 2001-Jun. 2005: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
    • Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, Jun. 2005, Department of Electrical Engineering


Professional Experience

  • IBM India Research Lab: Dec 2005 - July. 2007
    • Technical Staff Member in Systems, High Performance Computing Group
  • Mascon Life Sciences: Sep 2005 - Dec. 2005
    • Executive Software Engineer
    • Design and development of bioinformatics projects like Gel Image Analysis, QTL Mapping and Gene Prediction.

Honors / Awards

Patents

  • A. Ortega, S.K. Narang, G. Shen, and J. Perez-Trufero, "Distributed Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks", January~19 2012, US Patent 20,120,014,289
  • J. J. Lee, H. C. Wey, G. Shen, W. S. Kim, A. Ortega, S. K. Narang, D.Park, "System and method for encoding/decoding videos using edge-adaptive transform", Oct 2013, US Patent 20130272422 A1.

PhD Dissertation

Journal Publications

  • David I Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard, Antonio Ortega, Pierre Vandergheynst, "Signal Processing on Graphs: Extending High-Dimensional Data Analysis to Networks and Other Irregular Data Domains", to appear SPM 2013, arXiv:1211.0053
  • S. K. Narang and Antonio Ortega, "Compact Support Biorthogonal Wavelet Filterbanks for Arbitrary Undirected Graphs", under review IEEE TSP, arXiv:1210.8129
  • S. K. Narang and Antonio Ortega, "Perfect Reconstruction Two-Channel Wavelet Filter-Banks For Graph Structured Data", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP) PDF format, Matlab Toolbox
  • S. Kumar, R. Gupta, N. Khanna, S. Chaudhury and S.D. Joshi, "Text Extraction and Document Image Segmentation Using Matched Wavelets and MRF Model,". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing(TIP),

Conference Publications

  • S.K. Narang, Y. H. Chao and A. Ortega, "Graph-wavelet filterbanks for edge-aware image processing", IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'12)
  • M. Levorato, S.K. Narang, U. Mitra, A. Ortega, Reduced Dimension Policy Iteration for Wireless Network Control via Multiscale Analysis, GlobeCom 12 Best Paper Award
  • S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Multi-dimensional separable critically sampled wavelet filterbanks on arbitrary graphs",IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12) PDF format, Poster
  • Woo-Shik Kim, S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Graph based transforms for depth video coding",IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12) PDF format
  • S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Downsampling Graphs Using Spectral Theory",IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), PDF format, Poster
  • J. P.-Trufero, S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Distributed Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Arbitrary Networks",Intl. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP'11), Presentation
  • G. Shen, W.-S. Kim, S. K. Narang, A. Ortega, J. Lee, and H. Wey, "Edge-adaptive transforms for efficient depth-map coding," Picture Coding Symposium (PCS ‘10), Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 2010.PDF format
  • S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Local Two-Channel Critically Sampled Filter-Banks On Graphs",Intl. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP'10), PDF format, Poster
  • S.K. Narang, G. Shen and A. Ortega, "Unidirectional Graph-based Wavelet Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks". IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10), April 2010. PDF format
  • S. K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Lifting Based Wavelet Transforms on Graphs". APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2009) Sapporo, Japan PDF format
  • G. Shen, S. K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Adaptive Distributed Transforms for Irregularly Sampled Wireless Sensor Networks". IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09), Taipei, April 2009. PDF format
  • A.R. Choudhury, A. King, S. Kumar and Y. Sabharwal, "Optimizations in financial engineering: The Least-Squares Monte Carlo method of Longstaff and Schwartz". In Proc. of 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing. (IPDPS 2008):pp 1-11 April 2008
  • A. Gupta, S. Kumar, R. Gupta, S. Chaudhury, S. D. Joshi, "Enhancement of Old Manuscript Images". International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007): vol2 744-748 Sep. 2007 PDF format
  • S. Kumar, N. Khanna, S. Chaudhury, S. D. Joshi, "Locating Text in Images using Matched Wavelets". International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005) : vol2 595-599 Sep. 2005 PDF format

Invited Talks

  • S. K. Narang, "Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs: A New Tool for Multiresolution Analysis". UC San Diego, Dec 2012 Presentation
  • S. K. Narang, "Critically Sampled Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs". CommNetS seminar, USC, Jan 2012 Presentation
  • ITA graduation day, San Diego, Feb. 2012, Poster

Course Reports

  • S. K. Narang, "Community detection in Social Networks using Wavelets". Semester Project Report: EE596(Wavelets) Fall 2008 USC PDF format
  • S. K. Narang, "Compress Sensing of Public Opinion in a Social Network Using Ising Model". Semester Project Report: EE599(Large Scale Systems and Message Passing Algorithms) Fall 2009 USC PDF format
  • S. K. Narang, "Low Dynamic Range (LDR) Video Camera System". Semester Project Report: EE586L(Advanced Digital Signal Processing Lab) Spring 2009 USC PDF format


Software

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