Past Research

I have been involved in application oriented research right through my MS and PhD and am keen on pursuing it in future as well. Some of the applications, I have been involved in during my graduate studies are:                        

• Understanding algae growth in lakes (field tests performed at Lake Fulmor, California, in collaboration with NAMOS Team at University of Southern California)

• Understanding flow patterns and pollution in rivers (field tests performed at San Joaquin river, California, in collaboration with Tom Harmon and his group UC Merced)

• Monitoring traffic inflow and outflow from UCLA campus (in collaboration with UCLA transportation department)

• Monitoring real time energy and water consumption (in collaboration with Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)

• Understanding salinity in lakes (field tests performed in Argentina with Institute of Oceanography, Argentina)

Gaussian Process Modeling

• Looking into developing efficient non-stationary, space-time Gaussian Process models using the intuitive approach of extending a stationary model with variable hyper-parameters (called latent variables) across the observation space

• Working towards efficiently learning such complex space-time models

• Use real world datasets to show the efficacy of the proposed work for real applications

• Current collaborations involve Dr. Fabio Ramos at Sydney University and Dr. Geoff Hollinger at University of Southern California