Vishal Monga is an

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electrical engineer, researcher and academic. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the

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. Monga’s research and educational activity lies in the area of optimization-based methods for

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and radar signal processing. He has published over 100 research papers and holds 45 patents. He is the author of the edited volume: ''Handbook of Convex Optimization Methods in Imaging Science.'' Monga received the US

National Science Foundation CAREER award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

in 2015 and the Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Excellence Award in 2016. In 2022, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors as a Senior Member.

Education

Monga received a B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) is a public technical university established by the Government of India, located in Amingaon area, North Guwahati city, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute ...

in 2001. He then moved to the United States, where he first received M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and then Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2005, both from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. His dissertation was entitled "Perceptually Based Methods for Robust Image Hashing."

Career

While completing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, Monga briefly worked as a Visiting Researcher at

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. In 2006, he joined the Research Staff at

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Research Center Webster and worked there until 2009. At the same time, he also taught at the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

as an Adjunct Faculty. In 2009, he left Xerox Research and joined Pennsylvania State University where he was endowed the Monkowski Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 2015, he received tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. In 2020, he was promoted to the rank of Professor. At the university, he also leads the Information Processing and Algorithms Laboratory. Monga has been an Associate Editor of ''IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology'' since 2015 and a Senior Area Editor of ''IEEE Signal Processing Letters'' since 2019. He was an Associate Editor of ''

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing The ''IEEE Transactions on Image Processing'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering aspects of image processing in the field of signal processing. It was established in 1992 and is published by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. ...

'' from 2009 to 2019, of ''

Journal of Electronic Imaging The ''Journal of Electronic Imaging'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published quarterly by SPIE and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. It covers all technology topics pertaining to the field of electronic imaging. The editor-i ...

'' from 2009 to 2015 and of ''IEEE Signal Processing Letters'' from 2015 to 2019. From 2017 to 2019, Monga was an elected member of

IEEE Signal Processing Society The IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) is one of the nearly 40 technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the first one created. Its mission is to "advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scien ...

, Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee. In 2019, he was appointed the Lead Guest Editor of ''IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on Domain Enriched Learning for Medical Imaging''. Starting January 2022, Monga has been an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Computational Imaging Technical Committee, the Bio-Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee and the Sensor, Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Technical Committee.

Research

Monga’s research contributions are in optimization-based methods for computational imaging, image analysis and radar signal processing. Research results from his group have advanced the state of the art for many significant open problems in imaging and vision, and radar systems including image and video hashing, medical image analysis for early detection of diseases and waveform design and estimation problems for modern radar systems. Monga's research has been recognized via the US National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Awards and honors

*2007 - Rochester Engineering Society (RES) Young Engineer of the Year *2011 - 2013 - Monkowski Career Development Professorship at Penn State *2012 - IEEE Mikio Takagi Best Paper Award *2015 - US National Science Foundation CAREER Award *2016 - Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award *2019 - Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) Outstanding Research Award

Selected publications

Articles

*V. Monga, Y. Li and Y. Eldar, ''Algorithm Unrolling: Interpretable, Efficient Deep Learning for Signal and Image Processing'', IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, volume 38, issue 2, March 2021.

Books

*Handbook of Convex Optimization Methods in Imaging Science (2018)

Book chapters

*"Color Image Halftoning" in ''Color Image Processing: Methods and Applications'' (2006) *"Video Anomaly Detection" in ''Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems'' (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monga, Vishal Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Pennsylvania State University faculty Cockrell School of Engineering alumni American academics of Indian descent