Mona Sheikh

msheikh at rice dot edu

Office:
Duncan Hall 2122
(713) 348-2821

Mailing address:
ECE MS-366
Rice University PO Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251

Research Interests: Signal processing and data analysis for biomedical applications, disease genomics and neuroscience.

I am a sixth year graduate student in the ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) department at Rice University in Houston, TX. My advisor is Richard Baraniuk, and I am a member of the Digital Signal Processing group here at Rice. My research is in developing Compressed Sensing-based Microarrays (CSM's). We collaborate with Olgica Milenkovic at UIUC on this project. I have also done some work in CS-based watermark detection. I expect to graduate in May 2010.


For my master's thesis, "Fundamental Limits in Spike Sorting", I was supervised by Don Johnson. My work focused on developing a theoretical framework to analyze the spike-sorting problem in neuroscience as a problem in detection/estimation. I also did an error analysis based on this model. I was also interested in analyzing errors in neural point processes - for instance, how does a simple spike misclassification affect the point process statistics of the spike stream? Errors made during spike sorting will propagate down and affect further interpretation of neuronal data, therefore an error analysis at the spike sorting stage is useful and interesting. I received my M.S. degree in September 2006.


I was born and raised in Bahrain, a tiny island country in the Arabian (otherwise known as Persian :) Gulf. I left home to become an undergraduate in electrical engineering at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. I graduated with a B.S. (honors) in June 2003.


In my spare time, I like to do crosswords and practice a bit of taekwondo.


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Compressive Sensing related papers:
Probe Design for Compressive Sensing DNA Microarrays, BIBM '08
Compressive Sensing DNA Microarrays, EURASIP '08
A CS-based Blind Watermarking Scheme, ICIP '07
DNA Array Decoding from Nonlinear Measurements by Belief Propagation, SSP '07
Designing Compressive Sensing DNA Microarrays, CAMSAP '07
Compressive Sensing DNA Microarrays technical report TR0706.




Neuroscience related papers:
Fundamental Detection and Estimation Limits in Spike Sorting, ICASSP '07
Favorable Recording Criteria for Spike Sorting, CNS '06