Shirin Jalali                                              

PhD Student
Information Systems Laboratory
 
EE department
Stanford University

Adviser: Prof. Tsachy Weissman 


Contact info:
Office: 251 Packard Bldg.
Phone: (650) 723-4544
E-mail: shjalali [AT] stanford [DOT] edu

Research Interests:
  • Universal lossy compression
  • Distributed source coding
  • Channel coding (iterative decoding algorithms)
  • Statistical signal processing

TA Experiences:

Publications:
  • Journal

    • S. Jalali, T. Weissman, "Rate-Distortion via Markov Chain Monte Carlo,"  submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (arxiv)
    • S. Jalali, S. Verdu, T. Weissman, "A Universal Scheme for Wyner-Ziv Coding of Discrete Sources," accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (pdf)
    • S. Jalali, B.H. Khalaj, "Power Control for Multirate DS-CDMA Systems With Imperfect Successive Interference Cancellation," Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 600-603, Jan. 2008

  • Conference
    • S. Jalali and T. Weissman, "Multiple description coding of discrete ergodic sources," Proc. of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2009. (pdf
    • S. Jalali,  A. MontanariT. Weissman, "An iterative scheme for near optimal and universal lossy compression," to be presented at Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Volos, Greece, 2009. (pdf) (invited paper)
    • S. Jalali, A. MontanariT. Weissman, "An implementable scheme for universal lossy compression of discrete Markov sources," Proc. of Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2009. (arxiv)
    • S. Jalali, T. Weissman, "Lossy coding via Markov chain Monte Carlo," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, 2008. (pdf)
    • S. Jalali, T. Weissman, "Near optimal lossy source coding and compression-based denoising via Markov chain Monte Carlo," Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, 2008. (invited paper)
    • S. Jalali, T. Weissman, "Lossy source coding via Markov chain Monte Carlo," International Zurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, 2008. (invited paper)
    • S. Jalali, S. Verdu, T. Weissman, "A universal Wyner-Ziv scheme for discrete sources," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Paris, France, 2007. (pdf)
    • S. Jalali, T. Weissman, "New bounds on the rate-distortion function of a binary Markov source," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Paris, France, 2007. (pdf)
    • S. Jalali, B. H. Khalaj, "Power management for multi-rate DS-CDMA systems with imperfect successive interference cancellation," IEEE International Conference on Communications, Paris, France, 2004.