Sunil K. Narang

Sunil K Narang

Ph.D. student (CV) Research pitch (video)

Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

E-mail: kumarsun@usc.edu

Advisor: Antonio Ortega

Research Interests

• Signal Processing on Graphs
• Image Processing
• Wavelet Transforms

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 Watson Research Lab, Yorktown: May 2010 - Aug. 2010
  • Summer Intern, Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences (BAMS) Group

• 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.

Fellowships / Awards

• Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholarship(2011-2012)
• Annenberg Graduate Fellowship(Aug.2007 - July 2009)
• Research Assistance Award (Aug 2009 - Present)

Journal Publications

• S. K. Narang and Antonio Ortega, "Perfect Reconstruction Two-Channel Wavelet Filter-Banks For Graph Structured Data", To appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 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, : vol.16, no.8, pp.2117-2128, Aug. 2007

Conference Publications

• S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Multi-dimensional separable critically sampled wavelet filterbanks on arbitrary graphs",To appear in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12)

• Woo-Shik Kim, S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Graph based transforms for depth video coding",To appear in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12)

• S.K. Narang and A. Ortega, "Downsampling Graphs Using Spectral Theory",IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), pp.4208-4211, 22-27 May 2011, 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),pp. = {1829-1832}, 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, "Critically Sampled Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs". CommNetS seminar, USC, Jan 2012 Presentation

• ITA graduation day, San Diego, Feb. 2012, Poster

• MHI Scholar 4 minute Research Pitch YouTube Link

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

• Graph Filterbanks