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(Prospective) Students and Collaborators

One of the principal attractions of statistical signal processing lies in the rich opportunities it presents for cross-disciplinary interaction. To this end I am always eager to hear from researchers and students who may be interested in pursuing collaborations.

My work aims to bring a strong theoretical foundation to bear toward practically relevant problems. Now more than ever, mathematics and statistics can and should inspire advances in signal processing, and vice-versa. To this end there is a corresponding need for research at the border between applied mathematics and the engineering sciences, requiring both a solid fundamental background and practical experience.

This philosophy is reflected across our Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as we work to enhance and sustain a vital, exciting, and vigorous intellectual community. If you share this outlook, I encourage you to consider applying to Harvard for graduate study. I welcome individual enquiries; to best determine mutuality of interests you may first wish to have a look at some of my publications:

P. J. Wolfe, S. J. Godsill, and W.-J. Ng. Bayesian variable selection and regularization for time-frequency surface estimation (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 66(3):575-589, 2004. Selected for reading at the Society's meeting on Statistical Approaches to Inverse Problems. (PDF)
P. J. Wolfe and S. J. Godsill . Efficient alternatives to the Ephraim and Malah suppression rule for audio signal enhancement. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2003(10):1043-1051, 2003. Special Issue: Audio for Multimedia Communications. (PDF)
P. J. Wolfe and S. J. Godsill. Bayesian estimation of time-frequency coefficients for audio signal enhancement. In S. Becker, S. Thrun, and K. Obermayer, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, pages 1197-1204. MIT Press, MA, 2003. (PDF)
P. J. Wolfe, M. Dörfler, and S. J. Godsill. Multi-Gabor dictionaries for audio time-frequency analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, pages 43-46, Mohonk, NY, October 2001. (PDF)
P. J. Wolfe and S. J. Godsill. Perceptually motivated approaches to music restoration. In H. G. Feichtinger and M. Dörfler, editors, Music and Mathematics, a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research, 30(1):83-92, 2001. (PDF)