I am currently working towards a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Rice university. My current academic advisor is Prof. Daniel Mittleman. Previously, my master thesis advisors are Prof. Richard Baraniuk and Prof. Hyeokho Choi. I am part of the Rice DSP Group specialized in Image and Geometry Processing. My research interests include Terahertz (THz) imaging, multidimensional signal processing and image-based rendering.

My current research is on Terahertz (THz) imaging and compressed sensing. I am interested in designing and building novel THz imaging system based on advanced signal processing theories.

My master research was on multidimensional signal processing based on a mathematical tool called wavelets. In order to obtain a sparse transform for signals in higher dimensions (3-D or above), I developed directional hypercomplex wavelets. For more details, see Publications.

The topic of my ELEC 599 project was Image-based Rendering and the Lumigraph. Lumigraph is a 4-D function used to describe a 3-D scene. This function has some interesting properties useful for analyzing geometry of the scene.

For a copy of my report or any publications, please feel free to email me at wailam at rice dot edu