Dr. Justin Romberg

Instructor information

Assistant Professor

EDUCATION
Rice University Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, July 2003
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1999
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, cum laude, May 1997

EXPERIENCE
2006–present Georgia Tech, ECE Assistant Professor
2003–2006 Caltech, Applied Mathematics Postdoctoral Scholar
2004 UCLA, Institute for Pure and Applied Math. Fellow
2003 Paris VI, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions Visitor
2001 Rice University, ECE Instructor
2000 Xerox PARC Research Intern
1999 Rice University, ECE Teaching Fellow
1998–2003 Rice University, ECE Research Assistant
1997 Western Atlas Design Engineer Intern
1994–1995 MITRE Corporation Technical Assistant

RESEARCH SUPPORT
2005–2008 NSF (Theoretical Foundations) Signal Recovery from Highly Incomplete Data (co-PI)
2006-2007 DARPA Analog to Information (with Northrop Grumman, co-PI)

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
E. J. Cand`es and J. K. Romberg, “Sparsity and Incoherence in Compressive Sampling,” submitted to Inverse
Problems, December 2006.
E. J. Cand`es, J. K. Romberg, and T. Tao, “Stable Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements,”
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, August 2006.
E. J. Cand`es and J. K. Romberg, “Quantitative Robust Uncertainty Principles and Optimally Sparse Decompositions,”
Foundations of Computational Mathematics, June 2006.
M. B. Wakin, J. K. Romberg, H. Choi, and R. G. Baraniuk, “Approximation and Compression of Piecewise
Smooth Images,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, May 2006.
E. J. Cand`es, J. K. Romberg, and T. Tao, “Robust Uncertainty Principles: Exact Signal Reconstruction
from Highly Incomplete Frequency Information,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, February 2006.
E. J. Cand`es and J. K. Romberg, “Practical Signal Recovery from Random Projections,” Technical Report,
Caltech, January 2005.
J. K. Romberg, H. Choi, R. G. Baraniuk, and N. G. Kingsbury, “Hidden Markov Tree Models for Complex
Wavelet Transforms,” Technical Report, Rice University, May 2002.
J. K. Romberg, H. Choi, and R. G. Baraniuk, “Bayesian Tree-Structured Image Modeling using Wavelet
Domain Hidden Markov Models,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, July 2001.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
H. Choi, J. K. Romberg, R. G. Baraniuk, and N. G. Kingsbury, “Hidden Markov Tree Modeling of Complex
Wavelet Transforms,” IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Istanbul,
Turkey, June 2000.
M. B. Wakin, J. K. Romberg, H. Choi, and R. G. Baraniuk, “Image compression using an efficient edge
cartoon + texture model,” IEEE Data Compression Conference, DCC, Snowbird, Utah, April 2002.
E. J. Cand`es, J. K. Romberg, “Universal Encoding from Limited Measurements,” Data Compression Conference,
Snowbird, Utah, March 2006.

PATENTS
D. H. Greene, J. K. Romberg, T. L. Poo, K. Popat, “Document Image Decoding Systems and Methods using
Modified Stack Algorithms,” U.S. patent no. 7,039,240, issued May 2, 2006.
HONORS and AWARDS
European Union-United States Junior Scientist Collaboration Award, 2003
Texas Instruments Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, 1997–2003
Shared “Best student paper award – NORSIG-2001” with E. Monsen, J. Odegard, H. Choi, and R. G.
Baraniuk,
Eta Kappa Nu member

OTHER INTERESTS
Squash, Racquetball, Cycling, Skiing, Basketball, American literature