Vishal Monga

Monkowski Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

111J Electrical Engineering West

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-863-1267

E-mail: vmonga_at_engr_dot_psu_dot_edu

Research Area: Signal and Image Processing

Research Group: Information Processing and Algorithms Laboratory

Prior to joining Penn State in Fall 2009, Dr. Monga spent four years at Xerox Research Labs. He has also been a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research and a visiting faculty at the University of Rochester. Dr. Monga founded and established the Information Processing and Algorithms Laboratory (iPAL) at Penn State. Broadly, Dr. Monga’s research centers on detection and optimization theory and its applications to statistical signal and image processing. Current research themes in his lab include computational color and imaging, multimedia mining and security, and statistical learning for document processing and robust decision problems on graphs with applications in automatic target recognition and classification. Dr. Monga is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Education

Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, Electrical Engineering
M.S. University of Texas, Austin, Electrical Engineering
B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Expertise

Detection theory, lattice theory, optimization and their applications to multimedia security and mining, color image processing and statistical learning for multimedia, document processing and genomics.

Selected Publications and Patents

Link here to selected publications and patents

Honors and Awards

Top 10% paper award at IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing - 2009
Young Engineer of the Year Award from the Rochester Engineering Society - 2007
Society for Imaging Science and Technology Raymond Davis Scholarship - 2004
Texas Telecommunications Consortium Graduate Fellowship 2003-2005