Morteza Shahram

 

I have finished my PhD. Currently I am a postdoctoral Student at Stanford University working with Prof David Donoho.

 My homepage in Stanford.

 

 

 

PhD Candidate

Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Lab

Electrical Engineering Department

University of California, Santa Cruz

Email: my last name ATsoeDOTucscDOTedu

Advisor: Prof. Peyman Milanfar

 

 

Research at Present

Research in the Past

Other Interests

Quotes

 

 

 

Research at Present:

q       Detection/Estimation Theory

q       Resolution Limits in Imaging and Array Processing. Selected Publications:

 

ü        Morteza Shahram and Peyman Milanfar, "Imaging Below the Diffraction Limit: A Statistical Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 677-689, May 2004.

ü        Morteza Shahram and Peyman Milanfar, "On the Resolvability of Sinusoids with Nearby Frequencies in the Presence of Noise", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

ü        Morteza Shahram and Peyman Milanfar, "Statistical and Information-Theoretic Analysis of Resolution in Imaging", Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

ü        Morteza Shahram and Peyman Milanfar, "Improved Spectral Analysis of Nearby Tones Using Local Detectors", the proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Research in the Past:

q       Clustering and Classification Algorithms

q       Signal/Image Compression

q       Multirate Signal Processing (Wavelets and Filterbanks)

q       Biomedical Signal Processing and Classification

ü        Morteza Shahram and Kambiz Nayebi, Classification of Multi-Channel ECG Signals Using a Cross-Distance Analysis, 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC-2001,

ü        Morteza Shahram and Kambiz Nayebi, ECG Beat Classification Based on a Cross-Distance Analysis, Sixth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA-2001, August 2001,

 

Other Interests:

q       Racquetball

q       Soccer (Indoors/Outdoors)

q       Squash

 

 

Quotes

 

Leibniz

ü      As God calculates, so the world is made.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

ü      Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

ü      There are no facts, only interpretations.

ü      That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

ü      Is man merely a  mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

ü      It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

ü      Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

ü      It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

 

Karl Popper

ü      Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

ü      All our observations are theory impregnated; there is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

ü      We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

ü      Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

ü      Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

 

Albert Camus

ü      Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

ü      Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

ü      Truth is mysterious, elusive, ever to be won anew. is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

 

Einstein

ü      Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.    

ü      As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

ü      Imagination is more important than knowledge.