Rishi Graham
Education	University of California, Santa Cruz Current PhD student in Statistics and Stochastic Modeling (Applied Mathematical Modeling) University of California, Santa Cruz Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, June 1998
Research Interests	Distributed estimation of spatial random fields. Adaptive sampling applied in collaborative contexts. Decentralized online path planning. Bayesian hierarchical modeling and nonparametrics. Applications in engineering and ecology.
Work Experience	UCSC Santa Cruz, California 2006 - Researcher -- Mostly studying collaborative methods for a network of mobile sensing robots to optimally sample a spatiotemporal random field with Jorge Cortés. Also a brief project with Bruno Sansó and Herbie Lee fitting a neural net model of dark energy to redshift data. UCSC Santa Cruz, California Sep 2007 - Dec 2007 Teaching Assistant for AMS11A, an introductory class on calculus for economics. Broadcom Corporation Sunnyvale, California Nov 2000 - Jun 2006 Design Verification Engineer for Home and Wireless Networking group + Responsibility: models, test infrastructure, and verification of designs for various communications interfaces including SDIO, PCI/PCI Express, PCMCIA, USB, WLAN 802.11a/b/g. ZSP Corporation Santa Clara, California Jun 1998 - Jan 1999 Engineering Intern. Design verification for the ZSP 16402, a superscalar DSP. + Responsibility: Writing Verilog and Assembly Language Test Vectors. UCSC Santa Cruz, California Jun 1997 - Aug 1997 ASIC testing and design of command decoder for Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) project. + Responsibility: PSPICE, VHDL, Workview and Viewdraw. UCSC Santa Cruz, California Jan 1996 - Dec 1997 Reader/Grader for a class in Discrete Mathematics at UCSC.
Publications	Conference Proceedings Spatial statistics and distributed estimation by robotic sensor networks R. Graham, J. Cortés Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010, submitted Cooperative adaptive sampling via approximate entropy maximization R. Graham, J. Cortés Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 2009, to appear. Cooperative adaptive sampling of random fields with unknown covariance R. Graham, J. Cortés Proceedings of the American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2009, pp. 4543-4548. +Presented talk at conference. A cooperative deployment strategy for optimal sampling in spatiotemporal estimation R. Graham, J. Cortés Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancn, Mexico, 2008, pp. 2432-2437. +Presented talk at conference. Asymptotic optimality of multicenter Voronoi configurations for random field estimation R. Graham, J. Cortés Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2007, pp. 3127-3132 +Presented poster at conference. Journal Publications Cooperative adaptive sampling of random fields with partially known covariance R. Graham, J. Cortés International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, submitted July 2009 Asymptotic optimality of multicenter Voronoi configurations for random field estimation R. Graham, J. Cortés IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54 (1) (2009), 153-158
Professional Service	Reviewer, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2008,2009); American Control Conference (2009,2010); Asian Journal of Control (2007); Automatica (2009); SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2008);IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009). Session cochair, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 9-11 2009, Cancún Mexico