Waheed U. Bajwa
Research Interests
High-dimensional inference and inverse problems, compressed sensing, statistical signal processing, wireless communications, and applications in biological sciences, complex networked systems, and radar & image processing
Honors
• 2018 Technical Co-Chair, 19th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC’18), Kalamata, Greece
• 2016 Best Student Paper Award, IEEE IVMSP 2016 Workshop (Student: T. Wu)
• 2016 Rutgers Engineering Governing Council ECE Professor of the Year Award
• 2016 Rutgers University’s Presidential Merit Award
• 2016 - 2018 Elected as a Member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical
• Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
• 2016 - 2018 Elected as a Member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
• 2016 - 2018 Elected as a Member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
• 2015 Publicity & Publications Chair, IEEE Intl. Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP’15), Cancun, Mexico
• 2015 Selected as a Member of the Class of 2015 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
• 2015 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
• 2015 Rutgers Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Teaching Innovation Award
• 2014 Army Research Office Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
• 2014 - present Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• 2013 General Chair, IEEE GlobalSIP
• 2013 Symposium on New Sensing and Statistical Inference Methods, Austin, TX
• 2013 Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE CAMSAP
• 2013 Workshop (Student: A. Harms)
• 2013 Elected to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE
• 2013 General Chair, Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Sensor Networks, CPSWeek 2013, Philadelphia, PA
• 2012 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering Nominee, Rutgers University
• 2012 Guest Associate Editor, Special Issue of Elsevier Physical Communication on “Compressive Sensing in Communications”
• 2010 Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE ISIT
• 2010 (Student: S. Jafarpour)
• 2010 Travel Award, Institute for Pure & Applied Math, Univ. of California at Los Angeles 2009 President, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter of Golden Key Intl. Honor Society
• 2008 Dissertator Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2008 Travel Award, University of Colorado at Boulder 2008 Co-Vice President, Univ. of WI-Madison Chapter of Golden Key Intl. Honor Society
• 2008 Wisconsin Union Poker Series Champion, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2007 Travel Award, Institute for Pure & Applied Math, Univ. of California at Los Angeles
• 2003 - 2004 University of Wisconsin-Madison Morgridge Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
• 2001 Best in Academics Gold Medal, National University of Sciences & Technology
• 2001 President’s Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering, Nat’l Univ. of Sciences & Technology
• 2000 College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering’s Junior NUST Student
• 1998 - 2001 National University of Sciences & Technology Merit Scholarship
Professional Affiliations
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, 2010 - 2011
- Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, 2009 - 2010
Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
- MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
- BE in Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan, 2001