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