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This is the website of JARVIS HAUPT. I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor in August 2010. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the DSP group at Rice University. My CV is available here.

My research interests generally include statistical signal processing and learning theory, compressed sensing, and adaptive sampling techniques, with applications in communications, networks, remote sensing, and imaging.

Currently, my research focus is DISTILLED SENSING, a multi-step adaptive sampling and refinement procedure for recovery of sparse signals in noise. Our work in this area shows that dramatic improvements are achievable using adaptivity in sampling, relative to the best methods based on non-adaptive sampling -- for example, adaptivity enables reliable recovery (detection and estimation) of sparse signals in otherwise prohibitively-low SNR regimes. This is joint work with Rui Castro at Eindhoven University of Technology and Robert Nowak at the University of Wisconsin, and most recently with Richard Baraniuk at Rice University.