About
Jason Laska hails from Chappaqua, NY and is currently a Ph. D. student at Rice University under advisor Richard Baraniuk. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University. His main technical interests are in the field of digital signal processing and he is currently exploring practical applications of compressive sensing.
Propaganda
[Laska's Masters Defense by Robin Sheldon]
Jason completed the Masters degree. Slides from his defense talk, Democracy in Action: Quantization, Saturation, and Compressive Sensing, can be found here. Accompanying software can be found here.
In 2007, Jason co-founded Rejecta Publications, a non-profit association which provides open access publication to previously rejected papers. The inaugural issue of the Journal Rejecta Mathematica was published in July 2009 and has received critical acclaim in several publications such as The Economist, Ars Technica, Science, and Handelsblatt.
Jason introduced a mac widget, Chai, that provides quick search access to the Cellar Tracker wine database. He hopes he will have time to make more of these in the future (but he knows he wont).
Jason received the Herschel M. Rich Invention Award for his work on the Single-Pixel-Camera. This project has been featured in the BBC, USA Today, and Business Week. The single-pixel-camera was also named one of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2007 by the MIT Technology Review.