Bijan Afsari

PhD Student

Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing (AMSC)

University of Maryland, College Park

Email: bijan at glue dot umd dot edu

I am pursuing my PhD degree in applied mathematics at UMD. I am also a research assistance in the Institute for Systems Research here at Maryland. My advisor is Dr. P.S. Krishnaprasad. My scientific interest is quite broad but mostly around non-linear and statistical signal processing. For my PhD dissertation I am focused on the problem of ``processing of manifold-valued and Lie Group-valued data''. I am also very much interested in numerical computations and optimization especially with applications in signal processing.

Some Publications:

• B. Afsari `` Sensitivity Analysis for the Problem of Non-Orthogonal Matrix Joint Diagonalization'', ready for submission
• B. Afsari `` Simple LU and QR based Non-Orthogonal Matrix Joint Diagonalization'', to appear in the Proceedings of ICA2006, Springer LNCS series, 2006
• B. Afsari, P.S. Krishnaprasad,`` A Novel Non-Orthogonal Joint Diagonalization Cost Function for ICA'', Institute for Systems Research Tech. Report, University of Maryland, 2005
• B.Afsari, P.S.Krishnaprasad, ``Some Gradient Based Joint Diagonalization Methods for ICA'', Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation, Springer LNCS series, 2004