Education linkedin.com/in/masadlodhi/ Doctorate, Electrical & Computer Engineering May 2020 Rutgers University GPA: 4.00/4.00 New Brunswick, NJ Masters, Electrical Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences GPA: 3.93/4.00 Lahore, Pakistan Bachelors, Electrical Engineering Lahore University of Management Sciences GPA: 3.60/4.00 Lahore, Pakistan Skills Statistical signal processing, deep learning, nonconvex optimization, computer vision, graphical models Programming: Matlab, Python, TensorFlow, Keras, SQL, Tableau, C++, Jupyter Experience Graduate Research Assistant, Rutgers University Sep 2014 - Present • Structured Graph Learning: – Developed scalable graph learning algorithms to learn structured graphs from high-dimensional data for time series prediction and inferential analysis – Validated performance gains on ABIDE fMRI data and spatiotemporal U.S. temperature dataset – Derived the error bounds for the proposed algorithms using tools from probability theory and nonconvex optimization • Detection Theory for Union of Subspaces: – Posed the inference problems of signal detection and active subspace classification under the union of subspaces model as binary and multiple hypothesis testing problems – Demonstrated performance gains over classical subspace model with numerical experiments on Hopkins motion segmentation, Salinas hyperspectral, and Yale Face datasets – Derived bounds on detection performance in terms of the geometry between subspaces and the geometry of colored noise • Fiber-optics Endomicroscopy: – Lead a study to develop new data-driven models and explore practical challenges in implementing various compressive imaging architectures for resolution improvement in fiber-bundle endoscopy – Overcame the missing data problem in fiber-bundle imaging by combining snapshot spectral coding with compressive endoscopy Graduate Research Intern, Mitsubishi Elec. Research Labs • Phaseless Inverse Multiple Scattering: May 2019 - Aug 2019 – Worked on a novel fast nonconvex reconstruction algorithm for inverse multiple scattering from phaseless measurements by exploiting the structural information about the object of interest and the phaseless measurements. • Distributed Radar Imaging: Sep 2018 - Jan 2019 – Developed models for correction of position and clock errors in distributed radar imaging – Posed the imaging setup with unknown errors as a multilinear deconvolution problem to facilitate derivation of error bounds and identifiability conditions Other projects • Training Neural Nets with ADMM: – Explored an ADMM based method for training neural networks that circumvented the vanishing gradients problem by decoupling the network variables across layers – Verified the performance by training LeNet-5 and a simple RNN for time series prediction • Object recognition: – Implemented a network in TensorFlow to classify handwritten digits (accuracy ≥ 99.8%) in MNIST and items in Fashion MNIST datasets • Sentiment analysis: – Designed a sentiment detection network to detect sarcasm in the Sarcasm in News Headlines Dataset and classify reviews in the IMDB dataset using LSTMs • Time-series prediction: – Using TensorFlow, designed a deep network with LSTMs to predict time-series for Kaggle’s Sunspot activity dataset Graduate Courses Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Computer Vision, Convex Optimization, Detection & Estimation Theory, Stochastic Signals & Systems. Teaching • Teaching Assistant, Rutgers ECE Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 Linear Signals and Systems Instructor: Sophocles Orfanidis • Teaching Assistant, Rutgers ECE Jan 2015 - April 2015 Digital Signal Processing Instructor: Waheed U. Bajwa • Teaching Assistant, Rutgers ECE Sep 2014 - Dec 2014 Digital Logic Design Instructors: Kristin Dana, Michael Caggiano Awards • Student Awards – Gold Medalist for Masters, LUMS 2014 – Dean’s Honor List for Masters, LUMS 2014 – Dean’s Honor List for Bachelors, LUMS 2013 – National Outreach Scholarship for Bachelors, LUMS 2009-13 • Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, Rutgers ECE 2014-15 • Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence, Cancer Institute of New Jersey 2017 • ECE Research Excellence Award, Rutgers ECE 2017 & 2018 • NSF INTERN Supplemental Funding Award 2018 Journal Publications 1. Muhammad A. Lodhi, Hassan Mansour, Petros Boufounos, and Waheed U. Bajwa, “Distributed radar autofocus under position and clock ambiguities," under preparation. 2. Muhammad A. Lodhi, and Waheed U. Bajwa, “Learning structured graphs underlying smooth graph signals," under submission. 3. John P. Dumas, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Batoul A. Taki, Waheed U. Bajwa, and Mark C. Pierce, “Computational endoscopy – a framework for improving spatial resolution in fiber bundle imaging," Optics Letters, vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 3968-3971, Aug. 2019. 4. Muhammad A. Lodhi, and Waheed U. Bajwa, “Detection theory for union of subspaces," IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., vol. 66, no. 24, pp. 6347-6362, Dec. 2018. 5. John P. Dumas, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Waheed U. Bajwa, and Mark C. Pierce, “From modeling to hardware: An experimental evaluation of Image-plane and Fourier-plane coded compressive optical imaging," Optics Express, vol. 25, no. 23, pp. 29472-29491, Nov. 2017. 6. John P. Dumas, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Waheed Bajwa, and Mark Pierce, “Computational imaging with a highly parallel image-plane-coded architecture: challenges and solutions," Optics Express, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 6145-6155, Mar. 2016. Conference Publications 1. Muhammad A. Lodhi, Yanting Ma, Hassan Mansour, Petros T Boufounos, and Dehong Liu, “Inverse multiple scattering with phasaeless measurements," accepted at Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2020. 2. Muhammad A. Lodhi, Hassan Mansour, and Petros T Boufounos, “Coherent radar imaging using unsynchronized distributed antennas," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Brighton, United Kingdom, May 12 - 17, 2019.
3. Muhammad A. Lodhi, and Waheed U. Bajwa, “Union of subspaces signal detection in
subspace interference," in Proc. IEEE Stat. Sig. Proc. Workshop, Freiburg, Germany, Jun. 10 - 13, 2018, pp. 548-552. 4. John P. Dumas, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Waheed Bajwa, and Mark Pierce, “A compressed sensing approach for resolution improvement in fiber-bundle based endomicroscopy," in Proc. SPIE Endoscopic Microscopy XIII, Jan. 27 - Feb. 1, 2018, vol. 10470, p. 1047012. 5. John P. Dumas, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Waheed Bajwa, and Mark C. Pierce, “Evaluation of computational endomicroscopy architectures for minimally-invasive optical biopsy," in Proc. SPIE Endoscopic Microscopy XII, Jan. 29 - 30, 2018,vol. 10040, p. 1004006. 6. Muhammad A. Lodhi, John P. Dumas, Mark Pierce, and Waheed Bajwa, “Computational imaging through a fiber-optic bundle," in Proc. SPIE Compressive Sensing VI: From Diverse Modalities to Big Data Analytics, Apr. 9 - 13, 2017, vol. 10211, p. 1021108. 7. Muhammad A. Lodhi, Sergey Voronin, and Waheed U. Bajwa, “YAMPA: yet another matching pursuit algorithm for compressive sensing," in Proc. SPIE Compressive Sensing V: From Diverse Modalities to Big Data Analytics, Apr. 17 - 21, 2016, vol. 9857, p. 98570E. 8. Nauman Shahid, Syed B. Ali, Kamran Ali, Muhammad A. Lodhi, Ovais B. Usman, and Ijaz H. Naqvi, “Joint event detection & identification: A clustering based approach for wireless sensor networks," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Comm. Networking Conf., Apr. 7 - 10, 2013, pp. 2333-2338.