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Mahesh Shastry

Mahesh Shastry

Research Assistant [MS]

201 Electrical Engineering East

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-863-3211 / Fax: 814-865-7065

E-mail: mcs312@psu.edu

Personal Website: Here


Education

 
  • M.S. [Electrical Engineering], 2009, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  • B. Tech., 2007, The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India

Honors and Awards

 
  • National Talent Search Scholarship, National Council of Education Research and Training, India 2001-2007

Research Interests

Signal processing - compressive sensing, time-frequency analysis, non-linear systems, applications of signal processing to physical problems

Publications

 
  • M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan and R. Muralidhar, "Compressive Radar Imaging Using White Stochastic Waveforms," IEEE International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 2010.
  • R. M. Narayanan, M. C. Shastry, P.-H. Chen and M. Levi, "Through-the-Wall Detection of Stationary Human Targets Using Doppler Radar," Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 20, 147-166, 2010.
  • M. C. Shastry, "An Empirical Mode Decomposition Based Technique for Through-the-Wall Radar Sensing of Human Activity," Masters Thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, August 2009
  • M. C. Shastry, R. M. Narayanan,M Levi, "Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) Analysis Technique for Doppler Characterization of Human Activity," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society/URSI Symposium, Charleston, SC, June 2009
  • N. Nagaraj, M. C. Shastry, and P. G. Vaidya, "Increasing Average Period Lengths by Switching of Robust Chaos Maps in Finite Precision", European Physics Journal - Special Topics, vol. 165, pp. 73--83, 2008
  • N. Nagaraj, M. C. Shastry, P. G. Vaidya, "Switching of Non-linear Dynamical Systems and its effect on round-off induced periodicity with applications to pseudo-random number generation," Non-linear Dynamics: Advances and Persepctives, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, September 2007
  • N. Nagaraj, M. C. Shastry, P. G. Vaidya, "Stochastic switching of deterministic chaotic systems on a finite precision computer: Implications to chaos and randomness," poster presented at the International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 2007
  • M. C. Shastry, N. Nagaraj, P. G. Vaidya, "A Generalization of the Logistic Map and Its applications in Generating Pseudo-Random Numbers," International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulations, Jaipur, India December 2006
  • M. C. Shastry, N. Nagaraj, P. G. Vaidya, "The B-Exponential Map: A Generalization Of The Logistic Map And Its Applications In Generating Pseudo-Random Numbers," preprint on Arxiv.org, July 2006