Curriculum Vitae

Nariman Farvardin
Office of the President
1 Castle Point on Hudson
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Telephone: (201) 216-5213
Email: president@stevens.edu

Professional Experience Summary

Dr. Farvardin has served as President of Stevens Institute of Technology since July 1, 2011. During his first two years at Stevens, he has launched a number of important initiatives, including a strategic planning process, a master planning process, a three-year fundraising effort called the President’s Initiative for Excellence, reorganizations of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Office of Information Technology, establishment of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Office of Communications and Marketing, and the President’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Dr. Farvardin’s focus in the initial phase of his presidency is on implementation of the university’s strategic plan, created with the widespread involvement of the Stevens community, and endorsed by the Board of Trustees, the Faculty Senate, and the Executive Committee of the Stevens Alumni Association. Key priorities include: enhancing the educational experience and improving the success of undergraduate and graduate students; increasing the size and academic profile of undergraduate and graduate students; increasing alumni engagement and support of the university; enhancing the academic reputation and national recognition of Stevens; and improving efficiency and effectiveness across the university.

Prior to joining Stevens, Dr. Farvardin was a member of the University of Maryland, College Park for 27 years. He began his academic career as an assistant professor of electrical engineering in 1984 and rose through the faculty ranks as associate professor (1988 - 1993) and professor (1993 - 2011). He spent the 1990-1991 academic year as a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France. He served as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1994 - 2000) and was Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering (2000 - 2007). He was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost in 2007. In this capacity, he oversaw 12 colleges and schools, the University Libraries, the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the Graduate School, the Institute for International Programs, the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and the University’s growing programs at the Universities at Shady Grove.

As Provost, Dr. Farvardin led a large number of initiatives to enhance the quality of academic programs and advance the University’s stature. In this capacity, he:

  • Spearheaded the development of the University's strategic plan and led its implementation;
  • Oversaw the redesign of the General Education program;
  • Developed and implemented a resource reallocation process, enabling reinvestment in areas of strategic importance, including new faculty hires, and addressing imbalances across colleges and schools, which enabled the launch a number of new initiatives.
  • Built a diverse and inclusive community, including through a University-wide lecture series, the Provost's Conversations on Diversity, Democracy and Higher Education.
  • Increased emphasis on undergraduate programs and improving student retention and graduation, including through the enhancement of living-learning programs; the creation of the Honors College and the College Park Scholars Program, each with novel, interdisciplinary programs; and the expansion of international opportunities. During his tenure as Provost, the University achieved the highest student retention and graduation rates in its history.
  • Energized and expanded student recruitment programs, leading to the recruitment of the university's most academically talented and diverse freshman class in its history as of Fall 2010.
  • Supported the development of a number of initiatives to strengthen the University's research enterprise and expand its cross-disciplinary programs in areas such as: Digital Humanities, Health Equity, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Energy and Climate Change, the Environment, Food Safety and Security, New Media, Information Technology, and the Performing Arts. The University's externally funded research awards increased 36% from $401 million in FY 2007 to $545 million in FY 2010 under Provost Farvardin's leadership.
  • Established a new Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, a collaboration of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

As Dean, Dr. Farvardin oversaw all aspects of the operation of the A. James Clark School of Engineering. The School has eight academic departments, three major research institutes, 240 tenured and tenure-track faculty, 250 other faculty, 50 lecturers and instructors, 250 staff members, nearly 3,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, and an annual operating budget of nearly $180 million. During his tenure as Dean, Dr. Farvardin launched a number of transformative initiatives that advanced the School into higher levels of distinction, a few of which are highlighted below.

  • He oversaw a significant expansion of fundraising and alumni relation activities, which led to raising more than $140 million in philanthropic support. In particular, he planned and led the effort to secure two landmark gifts: $31 million to establish the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and $30 million to establish the A. James Clark scholarship endowment. To date, these have been the largest gifts in the history of the School, and two of the three largest in the history of the University.
  • He promoted the development of innovative educational programs, especially at the undergraduate level. In particular, he established a successful program, called Keystone, which has led to a dramatic improvement in the quality of education offered to students, especially in the freshman and sophomore years, and resulted in significant increases in retention and graduation rates. In addition, he established, B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Bioengineering, a minor in International Engineering, a minor in Nanotechnology, and, with the School of Public Policy, a Master of Engineering and Public Policy.
  • He supported the development of major research programs and enhanced the School's partnerships with industry. Dr. Farvardin spearheaded an effort to establish a major research center in nanotechnology, Maryland NanoCenter, in partnership with the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the College of Chemical and Life Sciences, placing the University of Maryland as one of the strongest in the nation in nanotechnology education and research; established the University of Maryland Energy Research Center—a multidisciplinary center focusing on alternative energy solutions; created a vibrant and successful education and research program with the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and oversaw construction of and secured significant financial support for a state-of-the-art engineering building. During this period, externally funded annual research expenditures increased from $70 million to over $110 million.
  • He also supported and expanded a host of programs focused on entrepreneurship, including a nationally-recognized living-learning undergraduate program called the Hinman CEOs Program, and established VentureAccelerator, a new program aimed at commercializing research and innovation through venture formation.
  • In addition, Dr. Farvardin implemented initiatives to improve student and faculty diversity; supported a host of programs for Women in Engineering; and established the University of Maryland's Chapter of Engineers without Borders, which has been one of the most active chapters in the country.

Dr. Farvardin's research interests include information theory and coding; multimedia signal compression and transmission; high-speed networks; and wireless networks. He has published widely in archival journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Farvardin was the Associate Editor for Quantization, Speech/Image Coding of the IEEE Transactions on Communications (1986 - 1990) and the Associate Editor for Source Coding of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1992 - 1995). In 1995, he chaired the technical program committee of the IEEE Speech Coding Workshop.

Dr. Farvardin holds seven patents in data communication, image coding and wireless communication, and has authored more than 150 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. During his tenure at the University of Maryland, he has secured, as PI or co-PI, more than $30 million in external contracts and grants to support research and education pursuits. His work, jointly with Laroia and Tretter, led to the invention of a novel method for optimal shaping of multidimensional signal constellations for data communication. This work became a key component of an ITU standard for data transmission over dial-up telephone lines and led to the development of V.34 modems, a technology that has been used in millions of computers and fax machines.

Dr. Farvardin has served on numerous boards of directors and advisory/technical boards of companies, as well as educational and non-profit organizations. He has also served on two task forces appointed by the Governor of the State of Maryland (on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and on Nano-biotechnology) and a number of special panels organized by the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, U.S. Department of Commerce, and National Council of Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer. He has spoken widely on topics related to higher education, globalization, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and the energy crisis. He was the co-founder and chairman of the board of Zagros Networks, a venture-funded fabless semiconductor company in Rockville, Maryland. The company was created to develop technologies focusing on quality-of-service provisioning in packet switched networks. In 2010, he co-founded NovaTherm Technologies, LLC, developing a technology to reduce the energy consumption associated with building heating and cooling systems.

Recognized for his research in communications and information theory, Dr. Farvardin is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the George Corcoran Award for Outstanding Contributions to Electrical Engineering Education, and the Invention of the Year Award (Information Sciences) from the University of Maryland. He was featured by The Washington Post as one of the "Five to Watch in 2003" when he was Dean of Engineering.

Dr. Farvardin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1979, 1980 and 1983, respectively.

I. Personal Data

  • Date of Birth: July 15, 1956
  • Marital Status: Married, one daughter

II. Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Dec. 1983.
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, RPI, Dec. 1980. 
  • B.S. (magna cum laude), Electrical Engineering, RPI, Aug. 1979.

III. Experience in Higher Education

  • Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Maryland, July 2007-present. 
  • Dean, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, Aug. 2000-June 2007.
  • Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, May 1995-July 2000. Acting Chair of the Department, August 1994-May 1995.
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research), University of Maryland, July 1993-present. 
  • Visiting Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, Sept. 1990-June 1991.
  • Associate Professor, University of Maryland, 1988-1993.
  • Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 1984-1988. 

IV. Other Experience

  • Consultant for companies and government laboratories since 1985.
  • Associate Editor, Quantization, Speech/Image Coding, IEEE Trans. Commun., 1986-1990; Associate Editor, Source Coding, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, 1992-1995.
  • Plenary Speaker, IEEE Int. Workshop on Intelligent Signal Proc. & Commun. Systems, Sendai, Japan, 1993; Nordic Signal Proc. Symp., Aaulesund, Norway, 1994; Canadian Inf. Theory Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 1997.
  • Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Speech Coding Workshop, Sept. 1995.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc., 1995, 1999; IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, 2000.
  • External Ph.D. examiner: Concordia University, 1987; Rutgers University, 1992; Chalmers University, 1993; University of Nice, 1994; Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1994; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, 1997.
  • Reviewer for various scientific journals, NSF and other funding agencies since 1983.
  • Session chairman in many conferences and symposia since 1984.
  • Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Zagros Networks, Rockville, MD, 2001-2003.
  • Member, Board of Directors, AW Industries, Landover, Maryland, 2003-2010.
  • Member, Advisory Board, RedShift Ventures, Reston, VA, 2006-present.
  • Trustee, American Funds - Washington Mutual Investors Fund, 2008-present.
  • Trustee, American Funds - Maryland and Virginia Tax Exempt Funds, 2010-present.
  • Director, J.P. Morgan, Value Opportunities Fund, 2010-present.
  • Senior Advisor, Royal Oak Capital Management, 2009-present.
  • Member, advisory boards of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, 1998-2002, and Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2004-present.
  • Member, National Science Foundation SBIR Advisory Board, 2003-2005.
  • Director, National Institute of Aerospace, Langley, VA, 2007-2010.
  • Member, Advisory Board, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2007-present.
  • Member, State of Maryland Governor's P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Task Force, 2008-2009
  • Member, State of Maryland Governor's Task Force on Nano-biotechnology, 2010.
  • Chair, Task Force on Cybersecurity, University System of Maryland, 2010.

V. Professional Societies

  • Fellow of the IEEE, since 1998.
  • Member of the American Society for Engineering Education, since 1999.

VI. Theses Directed

A.  Ph.D. Students

  1. David Goblirsch; Quantization Systems for Hidden Markov Sources; 1989.
  2. Vinay Vaishampayan; Combined Source-Channel Coding for Band-limited Waveform Channels; 1989.
  3. Rajiv Laroia; Design and Analysis of Fixed-Rate Structured Vector Quantizer Derived from Variable-Length Scalar Quantizers; 1992.
  4. Yunus Hussain; Design and Performance Evaluation of a Class of Finite-State Vector Quantizers; 1992.
  5. Xiaonong Ran; A Three-Component Image Model Based on Human Visual Perception and Its Applications in Image Coding and Processing; 1992.
  6. Nam Phamdo; Quantization Over Discrete Noisy Channels Under Complexity Constraints; 1993.
  7. Amjad Soomro; Adaptive Scalable Bandwidth Compression for Video Teleconferencing Applications; 1994, (co-advised with G. Ricart).
  8. Cheng-Chieh Lee; Design of Structured Quantizers Based on Coset Codes; 1995.
  9. Hamid Jafarkhani; Wavelet Coding of Images: Adaptation, Scalability, and Transmission over Wireless Networks; 1997.
  10. Paschalis Ligdas; Transmission Power Control for Fading Channels with Limited Feedback; 1997.
  11. Hugh Brunk; Embedded Source Coding; 1999.
  12. Mehdi Alasti; Multi-Access Protocols for Wireless Networks; 2002.
  13. Vinay Chande; Progressive Source-Channel Coding for Multimedia Transmission over Noisy and Lossy Channels with and without Feedback; 2004.
  14. Andres Kwasinski; Cross-Layer Resource Allocation Protocols for Multimedia CDMA Networks; 2004.

B.   M.S. Students (Thesis)

  1. Vinay Vaishampayan; Optimal Quantizer Design for Noisy Channels; 1986.
  2. Wayne Thayer; An Investigation of Speech Data Compression Through Variable Frame Rate Vector Quantization; 1986.
  3. Joseph Zott; VLSI Implementation of an Adaptive Scheme for Entropy-Coded Quantization of Sources; 1986.
  4. Frank Y. Lin; Optimum Entropy-Constrained Block Transform Quantization with Application to Image Coding; 1987
  5. Charalambos Moussas; A Comparison Between Vector Quantization and Block Transform Quantization Under Mismatch and an Application to Image Coding; 1987.
  6. Yunus Hussain; Block Transform Speech Coding Based on the Hidden-Markov Model; 1987.
  7. Jerry Davieau; A Uniform Comparison of Fast Vector Quantization Techniques; 1987.
  8. Rajiv Laroia; Efficient Encoding of Speech LSP Parameters - Application to CELP Coding; 1988.
  9. Nam Phamdo; Coding of Speech LSP parameters Using TSVQ; 1989.
  10. John Garnett; An Analysis of Delayed DPCM; 1990.
  11. Farbod Kamgar; An Evaluation of Fourier Transform Profilometry for Range Image Acquisition; 1991.
  12. Jesus Salillas; Adaptive Multi-Stage Vector Quantization for Image Compression; ENST Paris, 1991.
  13. Charles Galles; Automatic Gender Recognition from Speech; 1993 (co-advisor with Nakajima).
  14. Paschalis Ligdas; A Study of Reflection Symmetric Quantizer and Applications to Speech Coding; 1993.
  15. Michael Kerry; Image Coding Using Multi-Stage Vector Quantization; 1994.
  16. Hamid Jafarkhani; Adaptive Wavelet Image Coding; 1994.
  17. Tai-Hong Lee; Simulation and Development of a Speaker Identification System Based on Line Spectrum Pairs; 1994.
  18. B. Johnson; A Two-Stage Vector Quantizer for Coding Speech Line Spectrum Parameters; 1997.
  19. Michael Miller; Adaptive coding methods for speech coding over nonstationary channels; 1998.
  20. T. Hirata; Fast, High-Performance Still Image Compression for Applications in Digital Photography; 1999.

C.   M.S. Students (Scholarly Paper)

  1. Leonidas Boutsikaris; Vector Quantization and Application to Speech Coding; May 1985.
  2. Thu Nguyen; Quantizers and Decoders for Noisy Channels; May 1985.
  3. Jonathan Hammer; An Overview of Hidden Markov Models in Speech Recognition; May 1987.
  4. Scott Bordon; Discrete Wavelet Transforms in Signal Processing; May 1994.

VII. Awards, Contracts and Grants

A. Honors, Awardsand Recognitions

  1. IBM Fellowship, 1981-82.
  2. Allen B. Dumont Prize, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department, RPI, in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and substantial contribution to the field, May 1984.
  3. Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award, National Science Foundation, 1987.
  4. George Corcoran Award for Outstanding Contributions to Electrical Engineering Education, 1986-87.
  5. Award of Excellence for Design and VLSI Implementation of an Image Compression Scheme, Maryland Industrial Partnership, University of Maryland, 1992 (with Já Já).
  6. Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, 1993.
  7. 1995 Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge, American Division Award, "Real-time Implementation of a Wavelet-based Video Compression System." Student Members of the Team: Hamid Jafarkhani, Ruplu Bhattacharya, Jerome J. Johnson.
  8. Invention of the Year Award (Information Sciences), University of Maryland, College Park, (with Eiji Atsumi), 1999.
  9. Featured by The Washington Post as one of the "Five to Watch in 2003," Jan. 6, 2003.
  10. Hidden Gems Award, The Iranian-American Technology Council, Dec. 2003, Washington, DC.

B.   Contracts and Grants

  1. Minta Martin Fund for Aeronautical Research, Design and Performance Evaluation of Communication Satellites with Large Flexible Antennae, ($75,000), co-principal investigator with J. S. Baras, A. Ephremides, P. S. Krishnaprasad, A. Makowski, and P. Narayan, 1984-1986.
  2. NASA, Langley Research Center, A Study of Data Compression Techniques with Applications to Image Coding, ($72,708), principal investigator, 1985-1986.
  3. Martin Marietta Laboratories, Coding, Compression and Signal Processing for Communication Systems, ($95,000), principal investigator, 1984-1989.
  4. Department of Defense, Communication System Simulator Equipment for Point-to-Point and Multi-User Communications Research, (DoD contribution $97,000, also matching funds from CONTEL, Martin Marietta and the Engineering Research Center; total: $297,000), co-principal investigator with L. D. Davisson, A. Ephremides and E. Geraniotis, 1987.
  5. Minta Martin Fund for Aeronautical Research, Speech Coding at Low Rates Based on Nonstationary Models, ($10,000), principal investigator, 1986-1987.
  6. Entropics Processing Inc., Speech Processing Software (SPS), gift ($10,000), 1986.
  7. National Science Foundation (PYI), Design and Analysis of Data Compression Schemes for Nonstationary Sources, ($312,000), principal investigator, 1987-1992.
  8. Ford Aerospace & Communications, Adaptive Data Compression for High Data Rate Communication Systems, ($21,560), principal investigator, 1987.
  9. General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Design and Analysis of Data Compression Schemes for Nonstationary Sources, ($28,750), principal investigator, 1987-1992.
  10. Systems Research Center (NSF funded), Real-Time Signal Processing and Understanding, ($442,485), principal investigators J. Baras and S. Marcus, 1985-1993.
  11. Ford Aerospace, VLSI Design and Implementation of Data Compression Schemes, ($200,000), co-principal investigator with J. Já Já, 1988-1989.
  12. Mitsubishi Corporation, Subband Coding of Images, ($15,000), principal investigator, 1988-1989.
  13. Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, Speech Coding in Noisy Background and Channel Conditions, ($45,000), principal investigator, 1990-1993.
  14. National Science Foundation, A Novel Structured Vector Quantization Scheme: Design, Analysis and Applications, ($229,592), principal investigator, 1992-1995.
  15. National Science Foundation, Design and Control of a Walking Robot, ($390,000), co-principal investigator with W. Dayawansa, S. Azarm, A. Tits and L.-W. Tsai, 1992-1995.
  16. National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research with University of Nice-CNRS on Wavelet Based Image and Video Coding, ($9,250), principal investigator, 1994-1997.
  17. Texas Instruments, Low-Rate Robust Speech Coding, ($80,000), principal investigator, 1994-1998.
  18. Mitsubishi Corporation, Multiresolution Video Coding, ($25,000), principal investigator, 1994-1995.
  19. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Compression and Encoding for Wireless Communications, ($162,300), principal investigator, 1995-1996.
  20. Army Research Laboratory, Advanced Telecommunications and Information Distribution, ($5,500,000), co-principal investigator with J. Baras, A. Ephremides and V. S. Subramanian, 1996-2001.
  21. GTE, Low Bit Rate Content-Based Video Coding: Scalability, Robustness and Implementation, ($25,000), principal investigator, 1996-1997.
  22. National Science Foundation, Indoor Wireless Communications, ($400,000), co-principal investigator with A. Papamarcou, S. Tretter, L. Tassiulas and E. Geraniotis, 1997-2000.
  23. Mitsubishi Corporation, Image Coding Research, ($25,000), principal investigator, 1997-1998.
  24. National Science Foundation, Research Internships in Telecommunications Engineering (RITE) Site, ($550,000), co-principal investigator with A. Papamarcou, W. Lawson, 1997-2001.
  25. Intel Corporation, Fast, High Performance Still Image Compression for Applications in Digital Photography, ($150,326), co-principal investigator with S. Hirata, 1998-2001.
  26. The GE Fund, Hierarchical, Asynchronous and Multimedia Learning using Electronic Textbooks, ($800,000), co-principal investigator with L. Kiely, 1999-2001.
  27. The GE Fund, Time: Teachers Integrating Mathematics and Engineering, ($500,000), principal investigator, 2004-2007.
  28. Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, The Nano-Biotechnology Initiative, principal investigator (involves several participating faculty from the University System of Maryland), $6,200,000, 2006-2009.
  29. Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Nanotechnology Equipment Funds, principal investigator (involves several contributing faculty), $3,600,000, 2006-2007.
  30. The Petroleum Institute, Joint University of Maryland and Petroleum Institute Energy Related Collaboration, principal investigator (co-PI: A. Bar-Cohen; also involves several participating faculty), $10,000,000, 2006-2011.
  31. National Science Foundation, UM ADVANCE = Towards an Institution for Inclusive Excellence (UM = TI2E), principal investigator, (co-PIs: Avis Cohen, Darryll Pines, KerryAnn O'Meara), $3,192,712, 2010-2015.

VIII. Patents

  1. R. Laroia, N. Farvardin and S. Tretter, "Precoding Scheme for Transmitting Data Using Optimally-Shaped Constellations over Intersymbol-Interference Channels," United States Patent, 5,388,124, Feb. 7, 1995.
  2. E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Method and Apparatus for Compressing and Decompressing Images," United States Patent, 6,801,665, Oct. 5, 2004.
  3. E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Lossy/Lossless Region-of-Interest Image Coding," United States Patent, 6,891,973, May 10, 2005.
  4. E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Method and Apparatus for Compressing and Decompressing Images," United States Patent, 7,221,804, May 22, 2007.
  5. E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Lossy/Lossless Region-of-Interest Image Coding," United States Patent, 7,257,266 Aug. 14, 2007.
  6. M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "SEAMA: A Source Encoding Assisted Multiple Access Protocol for Wireless Communication," U.S. Patent, 7,555,011, June 30, 2009.
  7. E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Method and Apparatus for Compressing and Decompressing Images," U.S. Patent, 7,697,771, April 13, 2010.

IX. Publications

A. Contribution to Books

  1. N. Farvardin, Source Coding: Theory and Applications, The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Vol. 13, pp. 97-116, Academic Press, New York, 1987.
  2. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "Optimum Quantizer Performance for a Class of Non-Gaussian Memoryless Sources," in Image Compression, ed. M. Rabbani, pp. 71-83, SPIE, 1992.
  3. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "Optimal Block Cosine Transform Image Coding for Noisy Channels," in Digital Image Processing, ed. R. Chellappa, pp. 687-696, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992.
  4. N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "Combined Source-Channel Coding of LSP Parameters Using Multi-Stage Vector Quantization," in Speech and Audio Coding for Wireless and Network Applications, ed. B. S. Atal, V. Cuperman and A. Gersho, pp. 181-190, Kluwer Academic, 1993.
  5. N. Farvardin, "Recent Advances in Image Coding," in Progress in Picture Processing, ed. H. Maitre, North-Holland, pp. 233-273, 1996.
  6. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "Trellis-Based Scalar-Vector Quantizer for Memoryless Sources," in Coding and Quantization: DIMACS/IEEE Workshop ed. Calderbank, Forney, Moayeri, American Mathematical Society, pp. 127-137, 1994.
  7. N. Farvardin, "Speech Coding over Noisy Channels," in Recent Advances in Speech Recognition and Coding, ed. A. Rubio and J. Lopez Soler, Springer, pp. 387-404, 1995.
  8. N. Phamdo, T.-H. Lee and N. Farvardin, "Vector Quantization Based Classifier and Maximum Likelihood Decoding for Speaker Recognition," ed. A. Rubio and J. Lopez Soler, Springer, pp. 493-495, 1995.
  9. N. Farvardin and X. Ran, "A Perceptually Motivated Three-Component Image Model," in Video Coding: The Second Generation Approach, ed. L. Torres and M. Kunt, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 337-376, 1996.

B.   Refereed Journals

  1. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "Optimum Quantizer Performance for a Class of Non-Gaussian Memoryless Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. IT-30, pp. 485-497, May 1984.
  2. J. W. Modestino, N. Farvardin and M. R. Ogrinc, "Performance of Block Cosine Image Coding with Adaptive Quantization," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. COM-33, pp. 210-217, March 1985.
  3. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "Rate-Distortion Performance of DPCM Schemes for Autoregressive Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. IT-31, pp. 402-418, May 1985.
  4. 4.N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "Adaptive Buffer-Instrumented Entropy Coded Quantizer Performance for Memoryless Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. IT-32, pp. 9 - 22, Jan. 1986.
  5. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "On Overflow and Underflow Problems in Buffer-Instrumented Variable-Length Coding of Fixed-Rate Memoryless Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. IT-32, pp. 839-845, Nov. 1986.
  6. N. Farvardin and V. Vaishampayan, "Optimal Quantizer Design for Noisy Channels: An Approach to Combined Source-Channel Coding," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. IT-33, pp. 827-838, Nov. 1987.
  7. N. Sugamura and N. Farvardin, "Quantizer Design in LSP Speech Analysis-Synthesis," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Speech Processing for Communications, Vol. 6, pp. 432-440, Feb. 1988.
  8. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "Optimal Block Cosine Transform Image Coding for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 38, pp. 327-336, March 1990.
  9. J. W. Modestino, D. D. Harrison and N. Farvardin, "Robust Adaptive Buffer-Instrumented Entropy-Coded Quantization of Stationary Sources," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 38, pp. 859-867, June 1990.
  10. N. Farvardin, "A Study of Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 36, pp. 799-809, July 1990.
  11. N. Farvardin and V. Vaishampayan, "On the Performance and Complexity of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 37, pp. 155-160, Jan. 1991.
  12. N. Farvardin and F. Y. Lin, "Performance of Entropy-Constrained Block Transform Quantizers," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 37, pp. 1433-1439, Sept. 1991.
  13. Y. Hussain and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Block Transform Coding of Speech Based on LPC Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 39, pp. 2611-2620, Dec. 1991.
  14. N. Tanabe and N. Farvardin, "Subband Image Coding Using Entropy Coded Quantization Over Noisy Channels," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Commun., Vol. 10, pp. 926-943, June 1992.
  15. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "Joint Design of Block Source Codes and Modulation Signal Sets," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 37, pp. 1230-1248, July 1992.
  16. D.G. Goblirsch and N. Farvardin, "Switched Scalar Quantizers for Hidden Markov Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 38, pp. 1455-1473, Sept. 1992.
  17. Y. Hussain and N. Farvardin, "Variable-Rate Finite-State Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 25-38, Jan. 1993.
  18. R. Laroia, S. Tretter and N. Farvardin, "A Simple and Effective Precoding Scheme for Noise Whitening on Intersymbol Interference Channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 41, pp. 1460-1466, Oct. 1993.
  19. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from a Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizer - Part I: Memoryless Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 851-867, May 1993.
  20. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from a Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizer - Part II: Vector Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 868-876, May 1993.
  21. N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "A Unified Approach to Tree-Structured and Multi-Stage Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 835-850, May 1993.
  22. N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "Optimal Detection of Discrete Markov Sources Over Discrete Memoryless Channels - Applications to Combined Source-Channel Coding," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 40, pp. 186-193, Jan. 1994.
  23. N. Farvardin, Review of Vector Quantization and Signal Compression (Invited), A. Gersho and R. M. Gray, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 40, pp. 287-289, Jan. 1994.
  24. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "Trellis-Coded Structured Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 40, pp. 860-870, May 1994.
  25. R. Laroia, N. Farvardin and S. Tretter, "On Optimal Shaping of Multidimensional Constellations," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 40, pp. 1044-1056, July 1994.
  26. C. I. Podilchuk, N. S. Jayant and N. Farvardin, "Three-Dimensional Subband Coding of Video," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., pp. 125-139, Feb. 1995.
  27. X. Ran and N. Farvardin, "A Perceptually-Motivated Three-Component Image Model - Part I: Description of the Model," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., pp. 401-415, April 1995.
  28. X. Ran and N. Farvardin, "A Perceptually-Motivated Three-Component Image Model - Part II: Applications to Image Compression," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., pp. 430-447, April 1995.
  29. F. Alajaji, N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Fuja, "Detection of Binary Sources Over Discrete Channels with Additive Markov Noise," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 42, pp. 230-239, Jan. 1996.
  30. N. Phamdo, F. Alajaji and N. Farvardin "Quantization of Memoryless and Gauss-Markov Sources over Binary Markov Channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 45, pp. 668-675, June 1997.
  31. R. Joshi, H. Jafarkhani, J. Kasner, T. Fischer, N. Farvardin, M. Marcellin and R. Bamberger, "Comparison of Different Methods of Classification in Subband Coding of Images," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., pp. 1473-1487, Nov. 1997.
  32. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Image Coding Using Spectral Classification," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 7, pp. 605-610, April 1998.
  33. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Fast Reconstruction of Subband-Decomposed Progressively Transmitted Signals," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 8, pp. 891-898, July 1999.
  34. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Design of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers in the Presence of Channel Mismatch," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 48, pp. 118-124, Jan. 2000.
  35. P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Optimizing the Transmit Power for Slow Fading Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 46, pp. 565-576, March 2000.
  36. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel-Matched Hierarchical Table-Lookup Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 46, pp. 1121-1125, May 2000.
  37. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Progressive Transmission of Images over Memoryless Noisy Channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 18, pp. 850-860, June 2000.
  38. M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "SEAMA, A Source Encoding Assisted Multiple Access Protocol for Wireless Communications," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Vol.18, pp. 1682-1700, Sept. 2000.
  39. M. Alasti, K. Seyrafianpour, A. Ephremides and N. Farvardin, "Multiple Description Coding in Networks with Congestion Problem," IEEE Trans. Inform Theory, Vol. 47, pp. 891-902, March 2001.
  40. A. Kwasinski, M. Alasti, K. J. R. Liu, N. Farvardin, "A Low Complexity Source Encoding Assisted Multiple Access Protocol for Voice/Data Integrated Networks", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2005, pp. 193-206, 2005.

C.              Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "Optimum Quantizer Performance for a Class of Non-Gaussian Memoryless Sources," Proc. 20th Allerton Conf. on Communications, Control and Computing, pp. 290-300, Oct. 1982.
  2. J. W. Modestino, N. Farvardin and M. R. Ogrinc, "Performance of Block Cosine Image Coding with Adaptive Quantization," Proc. NTC '82, Galveston, Texas, pp. E1.1.1 - E1.1.6, Nov. 1982.
  3. J. W. Modestino and N. Farvardin, "Optimum Entropy-Coded Quantizer Design for a Class of Discrete-Time Sources," Proc. ICASSP, San Diego, CA, pp. 30.8.1-30.8.4, March 1984.
  4. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "On Overflow and Underflow Problems in Buffer-Instrumented Variable-Length Coding of Fixed-Rate Memoryless Sources," Proc. 18th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, pp. 351-355, March 1984.
  5. F. Azadegan, J. W. Modestino and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Block Cosine Image Coding Performance," Proc. IEEE International Communications Conf., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 506-510, May 1984.
  6. N. Farvardin and F. Y. Lin, "Performance of Entropy-Constrained Block Transform Quantizers," Proc. 23rd Allerton Conf. on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 359-360, Oct. 1985.
  7. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "Optimal Block Cosine Transform Image Coding for Noisy Channels," Proc. 20th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 260-266, Princeton, NJ, March 1986.
  8. N. Farvardin and F. Y. Lin, "Performance of a Block Transform Image Coding Scheme based on Entropy-Constrained Quantization and Permutation Coding," Proc. Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 238-244, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1987.
  9. J.W. Modestino, D. D. Harrison and N. Farvardin, "Robust Adaptive Buffer-Instrumented Entropy-Coded Quantization of Stationary Sources," Proc. 25th Annual Allerton Conf. on Communications, Control and Computing, Oct. 1987.
  10. N. Sugamura and N. Farvardin, "Quantizer Design in LSP Speech Analysis-Synthesis," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 398-401, New York, 1988.
  11. N. Farvardin and Y. Hussain, "Adaptive Block Transform Coding of Speech Based on the Hidden-Markov Model," Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (USIPCO), pp. 883-886, Grenoble, France, Oct. 1988.
  12. D.M. Goblirsch and N. Farvardin, "Robust Memoryless Quantization for Hidden Markov Sources," Proc. 22nd Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 795-800, Princeton, NJ, March 1988.
  13. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "The Joint Design of Block Source Coders and Modulation Signal Sets," Proc. 22nd Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 373-379, Princeton, NJ, March 1988.
  14. N. Sugamura and N. Farvardin, "Effects of Channel Errors in LSP Speech Analysis and Synthesis Based on Scalar Quantization," Proc. IEICE Speech Technical Group Meeting, pp. 1-6, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 1988.
  15. J. De Marca, N. Farvardin, N. S. Jayant and Y. Shoham, "Robust Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," Proc. Mobile Satellite Conf., pp. 515-520, Pasadena, CA, May 1988.
  16. N. Farvardin and R. Laroia, "Efficient Encoding of Speech LSP Parameters Using the Discrete Cosine Transformation," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 168-171, Glasgow, Scotland, May 1989.
  17. N. Farvardin and N. Tanabe, "Subband Image Coding Using Entropy-Coded Quantization," Proc. SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Santa Clara, CA, pp. 240-254, Feb. 1990.
  18. N. Tanabe and N. Farvardin, "Subband Image Coding Using Entropy-Coded Quantization over Noisy Channels," Proc. ICASSP '90, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 2105-2108, April 1990.
  19. N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "Coding of Speech LSP Parameters Using TSVQ with Interblock Noiseless Coding," Proc. ICASSP '90, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 193-196, April 1990.
  20. X. Ran and N. Farvardin, "Combined VQ/DCT of Images Using Interblock Noiseless Coding," Proc. ICASSP '90, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 2281-2284, April 1990.
  21. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "Optimum Encoder and Decoder Mappings for Vector Sources and Bandlimited Waveform Channels," Proc. 24th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 485-490, Princeton, NJ, March 1990.
  22. Y. Hussain and N. Farvardin, "Variable-Rate Finite-State Vector Quantization," Proc. 24th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 790-795, Princeton, NJ, March 1990.
  23. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizers," Proc. 24th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 796-801, Princeton, NJ, March 1990.
  24. N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "Combined Source-Channel Coding of LSP Parameters Using Multi-Stage Vector Quantization," Proc. IEICE/ASJ Research Meeting on Speech, pp. 63-70, Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 1990.
  25. R. Laroia, N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "Robust and Efficient Quantization of Speech LSP Parameters Using Structured Vector Quantization," Proc. ICASSP '91, pp. 641-644, Toronto, CANADA.
  26. Y. Hussain and N. Farvardin, "Variable-Rate Finite-State Vector Quantization of Images," Proc. ICASSP '91, pp. 2301-2304, Toronto, CANADA.
  27. C. Podilchuk and N. Farvardin, "Perceptually Based Low Bit Rate Video Coding," Proc. ICASSP '91, pp. 2837-2840, Toronto, CANADA.
  28. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "Extension of the Fixed-Rate Structured Vector Quantizer to Vector Sources," Proc. Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 576-581, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1991.
  29. Y. Hussain and N. Farvardin, "Finite-State Vector Quantization over Noisy Channels and Its Application to LSP Parameters," Proc. ICASSP, pp. II.133-136, March 1992.
  30. X. Ran and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive DCT Image Coding Based on a Three-Component Image Model," Proc. ICASSP, pp. III.201-204, March 1992.
  31. J. Salillas and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Multi-Stage Vector Quantization of Images," Proc. EUSIPCO, pp. 1239-1242, Aug. 1992.
  32. R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "On SVQ Shaping of Multidimensional Constellations - High-Rate Large-Dimensional Constellations," 26th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 527-531, March 1992.
  33. R. Laroia, S. Tretter and N. Farvardin, "A Simple and Effective Precoding Scheme for Noise Whitening on Intersymbol Interference Channels," 26th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 723-726, March 1992.
  34. N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "A Unified Approach to Tree-Structured and Multi-Stage Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," 26th Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 658-664, March 1992.
  35. J. López-Soler and N. Farvardin, "A Combined Quantization-Interpolation Scheme for Very Low Bit Rate Coding of Speech LSP Parameters," ICASSP '93, pp. II.21-24, Minnesota, MN, April 1993.
  36. N. Farvardin, C.-C. Lee and X. Ran, "An Adaptive DCT Image Coding Scheme Based on Entropy-Constrained Trellis Coded Quantization," ICASSP '93, pp. V.397-401, Minnesota, MN, April 1993.
  37. N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "Quantization over Discrete Noisy Channels Using Rate-One Convolutional Codes," Proc. of 1993 Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 357-362, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
  38. C.-C. Lee and N. Farvardin, "Entropy-Constrained Trellis Coded Quantization: Implementation and Adaptation," Proc. of the 1993 Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 342-347, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
  39. S. Arya, N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and D. Mount, "Fast Search Algorithms with Applications to Split and Multi-Stage Vector Quantization of Speech LSP Parameters," Proc. IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding for Telecommunications, pp. 65-66, St. Jovite, Quebec, Oct. 1993.
  40. C. C. Lee, N. Farvardin and X. Ran, "Robust Quantization of DCT Coefficients in Adaptive Transform Coding of Images," IEEE Int. Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, pp. 333-338, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Oct. 1993.
  41. N. Farvardin and N. Tanabe,  "Image Coding over Noisy Channels," Proc. of the Digital Communications Workshop, Tirrenia, Italy, Sept. 1993.
  42. N. Phamdo, F. Alajaji, N. Farvardin and T. Fuja, "Quantization of Memoryless Sources Over Discrete Markov Channels,"Proc. of Conference on Informations Sciences and Systems, pp. 1078-1083, Princeton, NJ, March 1994.
  43. N. Farvardin, F. Camurat and R. Laroia, "An Application of Fixed-Rate Scalar-Vector Quantization in Image Coding," International Conf. on Image Processing, pp. I.598-602, Austin, TX, Nov. 1994.
  44. H. Jafarkhani, N. Farvardin and C. C. Lee, "Adaptive Wavelet Based Image Coding," Int. Conf. on Image Processing, pp. III.343-349, Austin, TX, Nov. 1994.
  45. X. Ran and N. Farvardin, "On Planar Curve Representation," International Conf. on Image Processing, pp. I.676-680, Austin, TX, Nov. 1994.
  46. N. Farvardin, "Issues on Combined Source-Channel Coding," Proc. of Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, pp. 8-18, Aaulesund, Norway, June 1994.
  47. H. Ito and N. Farvardin, "On Motion Compensation of Wavelet Coefficients," Proc. ICASSP95, pp. 2161-2164, Detroit, April 1995.
  48.  P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Power Control Schemes for Memoryless Channels with Known Variations," Proc. of Conference on Informations Sciences and Systems, pp. 550-555, Baltimore, MD, March 1995.
  49.  C. C. Lee, N. Phamdo, R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "On Predictive TB-SVQ of Speech at Low Bit Rates," Proc. of Conference on Informations Sciences and Systems, pp. 82-87, Baltimore, MD, March 1995.
  50. C. C. Lee and N. Farvardin, "Memory and Mismatch Issues in Buffer-Instrumented Entropy-Coded TCQ," Proc. of Conference on Informations Sciences and Systems, pp. 70-75, Baltimore, MD, March 1995.
  51. H. Jafarkhani, N. Farvardin and C. C. Lee, "Optimal 2-D Spectral Classification and Its Application in Wavelet Coding of Images," Proc. of Conference on Informations Sciences and Systems, pp. 568-572, Baltimore, MD, March 1995.
  52. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Scalable Wavelet Image Coding Scheme Using Multi-Stage Pruned Tree-Structured Vector Quantization," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, pp. III.81-84, Oct. 1995, Washington, DC, 1995.
  53. H. Ito and N. Farvardin, "Wavelet Video Coder Using Entropy-Coded Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc., pp. I.598-601, Washington, DC, Oct. 1995.
  54. B. Johnson and N. Farvardin, "A Finite-State Two-Stage Vector Quantizer for Coding Speech Line Spectral Parameters," Proc. IEEE Speech Coding Workshop, pp. 47-48, Annapolis, MD, Sept. 1995.
  55. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Fast Reconstruction of Subband Decomposed Images for Progressive Transmission," Proc. Data Compression Conference, pp. 230-239, Snowbird, UT, April 1996.
  56. H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Fixed Rate Successive Refining Scalar Quantizers for Progressive Transmission," Proc. Data Compression Conference, pp. 250-259, Snowbird, UT, April 1996.
  57. H. Jafarkhani, P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Rate Allocation in a Joint Source/Channel Coding Framework for Wireless Channels," Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference, pp. 492-496, Atlanta, GA, April 1996.
  58. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel-Matched Hierarchical Vector Quantization for Transmission of Video Over Wireless Channels," International Conference on Image Processing, pp. III.755-758, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 1996.
  59. H. Jafarkhani, H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Entropy-Constrained Successively Refinable Scalar Quantization," Proc. Data Compression Conf., pp. 337-346, Snow Bird, UT, April 1997.
  60. P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Finite-State Power Control for Fading Channels," Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 399-404, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March, 1997.
  61. V. Chande, H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding of Images for Channels with Feedback," Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, (invited paper), pp. 50-51, San Diego, CA, Jan. 1998.
  62. H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Embedded Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, pp. 93-102, April 1998.
  63. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "A Joint Source-Channel Coding Scheme for Transmission of Images over Wireless Channels," Proc. Data Compression Conf., Snowbird, UT, p.a 530, April 1998.
  64. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Design of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers in the Presence of Channel Mismatch," Proc. IEEE ICASSP, pp. 3465-3468, Seattle, WA, May 1998.
  65. E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Lossy/Lossless Region-of-Interest Image Coding Based on Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees," Proc. IEEE ICIP, pp. 87-91, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.
  66. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding for Progressive Transmission of Embedded Source Coders," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 1999.
  67. H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Joint Design of Progressive Fixed-Rate Source-Channel Codes," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 1999.
  68. V. Chande, N. Farvardin and H. Jafarkhani, "Image Communication Over Noisy Channels with Feedback," Proc. Int. Conf. Image. Process. Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
  69. M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "Admission Control Policy for Wireless Networks Subject to a Quality of Service Constraint," Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '99), pp. 1521-1525, New Orleans, Sept. 1999.
  70. M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "D-PRMA: A Dynamic Packet Reservation Multiple Access Protocol for Wireless Communications," Proc. Second Annual Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, pp. 41-49, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1999.
  71. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding Schemes for Progressive Transmission over Noisy Channels with or without Feedback," Proc. of the 3rd ITG Conference on Source Channel Coding, Munich, Germany, Jan. 2000.
  72.  M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "A Diffusion Approximation for Voice-Data Integration in a Wireless Network," Proc. WCNC2000, Chicago, IL, 2000.
  73. A. Kwasinski, V. Chande and N Farvardin, "Delay-Constrained Joint Source-Channel Coding using Incremental Redundancy," Information Theory Workshop, pp. 283-286, Paris, France, April 2003.
  74. A. Kwasinski, Z. Han, K. J. R. Liu, N. Farvardin, "Power Minimization under Real-Time Source Distortion Constraints in Wireless Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC'03, New Orleans, LA, pp. 532 -536, March 2003.
  75. A. Kwasinski, N. Farvardin, "Resource Allocation for CDMA Networks Based on Real-Time Rate Adaptation," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications, ICC'03, Anchorage, Alaska, vol. 5, pp. 3307-3311, May 2003.
  76. A. Kwasinski, N. Farvardin, "Extending Operation of a CDMA Network Beyond Congestion by Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Real-Time Traffic in Fading Channels," Allerton Conference, pp. 1860 – 1869, Oct. 2003.
  77. A. Kwasinski, M. Alasti, M. Farvardin, K. J. R Liu "Highly Efficient, Low Complexity Source-Assisted Multiple Access Protocol," Allerton Conference, pp. 675- 684, Oct. 2003.
  78. Z. Han, A. Kwasinski, K. J. Ray Liu and N. Farvardin, "Pizza Party Algorithm for Real Time Distortion Management in Downlink Single-Cell CDMA Systems," Allerton Conference, pp. 1858 – 1859, Oct. 2003.   
  79. A. Kwasinski and N. Farvardin, "Optimal Resource Allocation for CDMA Networks Based on Arbitrary Real-Time Source Coders Adaptation with Application to MPEG4 FGS," Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Atlanta, GA, pp. 2010-2015, March 2004.

D. Papers in Scientific Meetings

  1. J. W. Modestino, N. Farvardin and M. R. Ogrinc, "Performance of Block Cosine Image Coding with Adaptive Quantization," in Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Les Arcs, France, pp. 90-91, June 1982.
  2. J. W. Modestino and N. Farvardin, "Rate-Distortion Performance of Predictive Encoding Schemes," in Abstracts of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada, pp. 87-88, Sept. 1983.
  3. N. Farvardin and J. W. Modestino, "Adaptive Buffer-Instrumented Entropy Coded Quantizer Performance for Memoryless Sources," in Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Brighton, England, p. 130, June 1985.
  4. N. Farvardin and V. Vaishampayan, "Optimal Quantizer Design for Noisy Channels," in Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 9, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 1986.
  5. J. W. Modestino, R. J. Sheldon and N. Farvardin, "Robust Adaptive Buffer-Instrumented Entropy-Coded Quantization of Stationary Sources," in Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 109, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 1986.
  6. N. Farvardin, "Optimal Binary Code Word Assignment for Vector Quantization over a Noisy Channel - An Application of Simulated Annealing," Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 223, Kobe, Japan, June 1988.
  7. N. Farvardin and V. Vaishampayan, "Some Issues on Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 163, Kobe, Japan, June 1988.
  8. D. Goblirsch and N. Farvardin, "Switched Scalar Quantizers for Hidden Markov Sources," Abstracts of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 138, Kobe, Japan, June 1988.
  9. N. Sugamura and N. Farvardin, "Comparison of Various Scalar Quantization Methods in LSP Speech Analysis and Synthesis," Proc. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, pp.129-130, Tokyo, March 1988.
  10. N. Sugamura and N. Farvardin, "Channel Noise Effects in LSP Speech Analysis and Synthesis," Proc. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, pp. 272-273, Tokyo, March 1988.
  11. V. Vaishampayan and N. Farvardin, "Combined Source-Channel Coding for Band-limited Waveform Channels," IEEE Abstracts of Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, San Diego, CA, pp. 58-59, Jan. 1990.
  12. N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "Channel-Error Protection for LSP Parameters Using the Interframe Correlation Property," Proc. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, pp. 193-194, Sept. 1990, Nagoya, Japan.
  13. N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "On Tree-Structured Vector Quantization over Noisy Channels," Abstracts of IEEE International Symposium on Inform. Theory, p. 248, Budapest, Hungary, June 1991.
  14. N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "Combined Source-Channel Coding of LSP Parameters Using Multi-Stage Vector Quantization," Proc. IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding for Telecommunications, pp. 36-38, Whistler, Canada, Sept. 1991.
  15. X. Ran and N. Farvardin, "A Three-Component Image Model for Coding with a Subjective Criterion," Proc. 7th Workshop on Multidimensional Signal Processing, p. 7.2, Lake Placid, NY, Sept. 1991.
  16.  N. Farvardin, "Recent Results in Image Compression," Analytical Image Processing in Art and Archives, National Archives, Washington, DC, June 1992.
  17. Y. Hussain and N. Farvardin, "Finite-State Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX, p. 392, Jan. 1993.
  18. N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "Optimal Detection of Discrete Markov Sources Over Discrete Memoryless Channels - Applications to Combined Source-Channel Coding," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX, p. 425, Jan. 1993.
  19. R. Laroia, C.-C. Lee and N. Farvardin, "Structured Vector Quantization of Sources with Memory," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX, p. 169, Jan. 1993.
  20. N. Phamdo and N. Farvardin, "Scalar Quantization of Memoryless Sources over Memoryless Channels Using Rate-One Convolutional Codes," Abstracts of IEEE International Sym. Inform. Theory, p. 235, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994.
  21. F. Alajaji, N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Fuja, "MAP Detection of Binary Sources over Discrete Markov Channels," Abstracts of IEEE International Sym. Inform. Theory, p. 300, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994.
  22.  C.-C. Lee and N. Farvardin, "Design of Entropy-Constrained Quantizers Based on Coset Codes," Abstracts of IEEE International Sym. Inform. Theory, p. 234, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994.
  23. H. Brunk, H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Entropy-Coded Successively Refinable Uniform Threshold Quantizers," Proc. IEEE International Sym. Inform. Theory, p. 58, Ulm, Germany, June 1997.
  24. H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel-Matched Hierarchical Table-Lookup Vector Quantization for Finite-State Channels without Feedback," Proc. IEEE International Sym. Inform. Theory, p. 512, Ulm, Germany, June 1997.
  25. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Embedded Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. ATIRP Conference, pp. 50-54, College Park, MD, Jan. 1998.
  26. S. Neuendorffer and N. Farvardin, "Low-complexity Video Coding for Teleconferencing," Proc. ATIRP Conference, pp. 45-49, College Park, MD, Jan. 1998.
  27. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "A Joint Source-Channel Coding Scheme for Transmission of Images over Wireless Channels," Proc. ATIRP Conference, pp. 40-44, College Park, MD, Jan. 1998.
  28. V. Chande, H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding of Images for Channels with Feedback," Proc. ATIRP Conference, pp. 37-39, College Park, MD, Jan. 1998.
  29. H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Embedded Entropy-Constrained Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. IEEE International Symp. Inform. Theory, Aug., p. 274, Aug., 1998.
  30. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "A Dynamic Programming Approach to Constrained Feedback Hybrid ARQ Design," Proc. IEEE International Symp. Inform. Theory, p. 286, Aug., 1998.
  31. H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Joint Design of Progressive Source-Channel Codes," Data Compression Workshop, Red Stone Arsenal, Alabama, Dec. 1998.
  32. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding for Progressive Transmission of Embedded Source Coders," Data Compression Workshop, Red Stone Arsenal, Alabama, Dec. 1998.
  33. H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Embedded Entropy-Constrained Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. ATIRP Conference, College Park, MD, pp. 329-334, Feb. 1999.
  34. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Constrained Feedback Hybrid ARQ Design for Wireless Error Control," Proc. ATIRP Conference, College Park, MD, pp. 393-396, Feb. 1999.
  35. M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "Admission Control Policy for Wireless Networks Subject to a Quality of Service Constraint," Proc. ATIRP Conference, College Park, MD, pp. 387-391, Feb. 1999.
  36. T. S. Huang, K. Ramchandran, M. J. T. Smith and N. Farvardin, "Image and Video Compression: Meeting the Army Needs," ATIRP Conference, College Park, MD, Feb. 1999.
  37. V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "On Optimal Joint Source-Channel Decoding Scheme for Noisy Channels with Feedback," International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorrento, Italy, July 2000.
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