Profile: Prakash Ishwar received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and 2002 respectively. After working for two years as an Associate Specialist Researcher in the Electronics Research Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined Boston University where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member in the Information Systems and Sciences group, the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, and the Sensor Network Consortium.

His fields of professional interest are distributed signal processing, information theory, image and video coding, statistical signal processing and modeling, decision theory, multiresolution signal analysis, and optimization theory with applications to sensor networks, multimedia-over-wireless, and information security.

He was awarded the 2000 Frederic T. and Edith F. Mavis College of Engineering Fellowship of the University of Illinois. He was a Senior Investigator and key driver on a 2003 NSF SENSORS award and he received the NSF CAREER award in December 2005. He served as the chair of exhibits and demonstrations at the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks in 2004 and was a co-organizer of Berkeley-FuSe 2003, a mini-workshop on the fundamentals of sensorwebs aimed at bringing together researchers from the signal processing, radar, communications, control, and networking communities working on various theoretical aspects of sensing and sensor networks.

Message for prospective graduate students and interns:

Like many other faculty, I receive hundreds of inquiries every semester from prospective graduate students and summer interns. Some of these emails get lost in the spam folders. It is in general not possible for me to read through the CV and reply to such inquiries because of their sheer volume. If you send me such a message, please do not be offended if I am unable to reply.

If you interested in the above research areas and you have a strong mathematical background in signal processing and communications, I encourage you to apply to our graduate program. Only students with a complete application are considered for admission and/or financial aid.