Eva Dyer

2119 Duncan Hall
Rice University MS-366
P.O.Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
Email: e.dyer {at} rice.edu

bio

I am currently a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Rice University where I work in the DSP group with Dr. Richard Baraniuk. Before entering the Ph.D. program at Rice, I received my BSEE in May of 2007 from the University of Miami with a double major in Audio Engineering and Applied Physics. While at the University of Miami, I worked for the Edward Arnold Center for Confluent Media Studies as a multimedia designer and also as an assistant sound designer for the documentary One Water: A collaborative effort for a sustainable future. In the summer of 2006, I conducted research in the Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University with Gabor Fichtinger and Greg Fischer. In June of 2008, I was accepted into the W.M. Keck Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine where I served as a predoctoral trainee until June 2010. As of June 2010, I began my tenure as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

[CV] Curriculum vitae

research interests

sparse signal models, structured sparse approximation, feature extraction and distributed processing in sensory neural systems, theoretical models for sparse population coding, neural data analysis, and compressive sensing.

publications

preprints

E.L. Dyer, A.C. Sankaranarayanan, R.G. Baraniuk: Greedy Feature Selection for Subspace Clustering. Submitted.

conference

E.L. Dyer, A.C. Sankaranarayanan, R.G. Baraniuk: Learning hybrid linear models via sparse recovery. Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS) 2011 Proceedings.
E.L. Dyer, M. Majzoobi, F. Koushanfar: Hybrid Modeling of Non-Stationary Process Variations. IEEE/ACM Design and Automation Conference (DAC) 2011 Proceedings, San Diego, CA.
M. Majzoobi, E.L. Dyer, A. Enably, F. Koushanfar: Rapid PFGA Characterization Using Clock Synthesis and Signal Sparsity.IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) 2010 Proceedings, Austin, TX, November 2010.
E.L. Dyer, M.F. Duarte, D.H. Johnson, R.G. Baraniuk: Recovering Spikes from Noisy Neuronal Calcium Signals via Structured Sparse Approximation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LVA/ICA 2010, Volume 6365/2010, 604-611.
E.L. Dyer, D.H. Johnson, R.G. Baraniuk:Learning modular representations from global sparse coding networks.BMC Neuroscience 2010, 11(1):P131.
E.L. Dyer, D.H. Johnson, R.G. Baraniuk: Sparse coding in modular networks.Computational and systems neuroscience (COSYNE) 2010.
E.L. Dyer, D.H. Johnson, R.G Baraniuk:Sparse coding with population sketches.BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10(1):P132.
G. Fischer, E.L. Dyer, C. Csoma, A. Deguet, G. Fichtinger: Validation System for MR Image Overlay and Other Needle Insertion Techniques.Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15- in vivo, in vitro, in silico: Designing the Next in Medicine, IOS Press, 2007.

posters

[SMALL 2011] E.L. Dyer, R.G Baraniuk: Learning modular dictionaries: From atoms to molecules. SMALL Workshop on Sparse Dictionary Learning, London, UK, January 2011.
[OCNS 2010] E.L. Dyer, D.H. Johnson, R.G Baraniuk: Learning modular representations from global sparse coding networks. San Antonio, TX, July 2010.
[COSYNE 2010] E.L. Dyer, D.H. Johnson, R.G Baraniuk: Sparse coding in modular networks. Salt Lake City, UT, February 2010.
[KECK 2009] E.L. Dyer, R.J. Cotton, M. Froudarakis, A.S. Tolias, D.H. Johnson, R.G. Baraniuk: Methods for analyzing the in-vivo activity of neuronal populations from two-photon calcium imaging data, Presented at (1) ECE Affiliates 2009 at Rice University and (2) 19th Keck Center Annual Research Conference, M.D. Anderson Cancer Prevention Building, Houston, TX, October 2009.
[OCNS 2009] E.L. Dyer, D.H. Johnson, R.G Baraniuk: Sparse coding with population sketches, Berlin, Germany, July 2009.
[KECK 2008] E.L. Dyer, D. Johnson, R.G. Baraniuk: Connectivity Constrained Sparse Coding in V1, 18th Keck Center Annual Research Conference, M.D. Anderson Cancer Prevention Building, Houston, TX, October 2008.
[ISMRM 2007] G. Fischer, E.L. Dyer, C. Csoma, A. Deguet, C. Weiss, J. Carrino, G. Fichtinger: Evaluation of MR Image Overlay for Spinal Interventions, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2007, Berlin, Germany, May 2007.

talks

"Learning sparse structure from signals and data ensembles", TNO Radar & Transceivers Division, Den Haag, Netherlands, July 7, 2011.
"Hybrid modeling of non-stationary process variations", Design and Automation Conference, 2011.
"Endogenous sparse recovery from finite unions of subspaces", Signal Processing with Adaptive Structured Sparse Representations (SPARS) Workshop, June 30, 2011.
"Exploiting Dispersive Structure in Sparse Spike Recovery", University of Edinburgh, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) Seminar, January 11, 2011.
"Spike Recovery with Structured Sparse Approximation", Latent Variable Analysis & Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2010), Saint Malo, France, September 30, 2010.
"Sparse Coding in Modular Networks", Interdisciplinary Workshop on Modern Mathematical Methods for High-Dimensional Data, VUB, Brussels, Belgium, April 7, 2010.
"Structured Sparse Coding in the Visual Cortex", 19th Keck Center Annual Research Conference, M.D. Anderson Cancer Prevention Building, Houston, TX, October 30, 2009.

software

Rapid Characterization of FPGAs with Matrix Completion (Code) (Paper)

teaching

[Fall 2010] Random Signals & Noise (ELEC 303)

links

Last updated: May 4, 2012