"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
Mojtaba Soltanalian received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology
, in 2009.
He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (with applications in signal processing) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Stoica at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden, in Oct. 2014. His research interests include different aspects of sequence/waveform design/optimization for active sensing, communications and biology.
He has been a recipient of -or supported in part by- different research grants from the European Research Council (ERC), the Swedish Research Council (VR), and Ericsson.
Research Spotlights
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MERIT--- Towards Computational Sub-Optimality Guarantees for Mathematical Optimization |
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Alternating Projections on Converging Sets |
Previous & Current Research Works
Ph.D. Thesis: Signal Design for Active Sensing and Communications
For more information, see here.
- Journal Papers:
| # | Author(s) | Title | Journal | Info. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [J11] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | On Prime Root-of-Unity Sequences with Perfect Periodic Correlation | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | vol. 62, no. 20, pp. 5458-5470, Oct, 2014. Preprint |
| [J10] | M. Soltanalian, H. Hu and P. Stoica | Single-Stage Transmit Beamforming Design for MIMO Radar | Signal Processing | vol. 102, pp. 132-138, Sep. 2014. Preprint |
| [J9] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica and M. Hashemi | Radar Code Design for Detection of Moving Targets | IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems | In press, 2014. Preprint |
| [J8] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Designing unimodular codes via quadratic optimization | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1221-1234, 2014. pdf |
| [J7] | L. Dai, M. Soltanalian and K. Pelckmans | On the Randomized Kaczmarz Algorithm | IEEE Signal Processing Letters | vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 330-333, Mar. 2014. pdf |
| [J6] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Hashemi, S. Shahbazpanahi, M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Unified Optimization Framework for Multi-Static Radar Code Design using Information-Theoretic Criteria | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | vol. 61, no. 21, pp. 5401-5416, 2013. pdf |
| [J5] | M. Soltanalian, M. M. Naghsh, and P. Stoica | On Meeting the Peak Correlation Bounds | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1210-1220, 2014. pdf Sequence Sets |
| [J4] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Hashemi, A. De Maio and A. Aubry | A Doppler Robust Design of Transmit Sequence and Receive Filter in the Presence of Signal-Dependent Interference | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 772-785, Feb. 2014. *Appeared on the IEEE TSP Popular Articles list, Jan. 2014. pdf |
| [J3] | M. Soltanalian, B. Tang, J. Li, and P. Stoica | Joint design of the receive filter and transmit sequence for active sensing | IEEE Signal Processing Letters | vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 423-426, May 2013. pdf |
| [J2] | M. Soltanalian, M. M. Naghsh, and P. Stoica | A fast algorithm for designing complementary sets of sequences | Signal Processing | vol .93, pp. 2096-2102, 2013. pdf |
| [J1] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Computational design of sequences with good correlation properties | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 2180-2193, May 2012. pdf Slides |
- Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:
| # | Author(s) | Title | Conference | Info. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [C16] | M. Soltanalian and B. Hassibi | Beyond Semidefinite Relaxtion: Basis Banks and Computationally Enhanced Guarantees | IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2015 | Submitted, Hong Kong, 2015. pdf |
| [C15] | M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica and J. Li | Search for Costas Arrays Via Sparse Representation | 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2014 | Lisbon, Portugal, 2014. pdf |
| [C14] | M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. M. Naghsh and A. De Maio | Design of Piecewise Linear Polyphase Sequences with Good Correlation Properties | 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2014 | Lisbon, Portugal, 2014. pdf |
| [C13] | H. Hu, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica and X. Zhu | Sparsity-Aided Radar Waveform Synthesis | 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2014 | Lisbon, Portugal, 2014. pdf |
| [C12] | E. Hidayat, M. Soltanalian, A. Medvedev and K. Nordström | Stimuli Design for Identification of Spatially Distributed Motion Detectors in Biological Vision Systems | 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 2014. |
| [C11] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | MERIT: A Monotonically Error-Bound Improving Technique for Unimodular Quadratic Programming | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014 | Florence, Italy, 2014. pdf |
| [C10] | M. Soltanalian, M. M. Naghsh and P. Stoica | Approaching Peak Correlation Bounds Via Alternating Projections | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014 | Florence, Italy, 2014. pdf |
| [C9] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Hashemi, A. De Maio and A. Aubry | A Max-Min Design of Transmit Sequence and Receive Filter | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014 | Florence, Italy, 2014. pdf |
| [C8] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Hashemi, A. Sheikhi, M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Unimodular Code Design for MIMO Radar Using Bhattacharyya Distance | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014 | Florence, Italy, 2014. pdf |
| [C7] | A. Aubry, A. De Maio, M. Piezzo, M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Cognitive Radar Waveform Design for Spectral Coexistence in Signal-Dependent Interference | IEEE Radar Conference (RADARCON) 2014 | Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2014. pdf |
| [C6] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica and M. Hashemi | Radar code optimization for moving target detection | 21st European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2013 | Marrakech, Morocco, 2013. pdf Poster |
| [C5] | M. M. Naghsh, M. Hashemi, S. Shahbazpanahi, M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Majorization-minimization technique for multi-static radar code design | 21st European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2013 | Marrakech, Morocco, 2013. pdf Slides *Short-listed for the best paper award. |
| [C4] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Design of perfect phase-quantized sequences with low peak-to-average-power ratio | European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) | Bucharest, Romania, August 2012. pdf Poster |
| [C3] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | Perfect root-of-unity codes with prime-size alphabet | IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011, pp. 3136-3139. pdf Poster |
| [C2] | M. Soltanolkotabi, M. Soltanalian, A. Amini, and F. Marvasti | A practical sparse channel estimation for current OFDM standards | International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) | Marrakech, Morocco, May 2009, pp. 217-222. pdf |
| [C1] | M. Soltanalian | Analysis and Optimization of the Generalized Caesar Encryption System | 11th Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE) | 2008, In Persian. Link |
- Technical Reports:
| # | Author(s) | Title | Archive | Info. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [T1] | M. Soltanalian and P. Stoica | A Recursive Method for Enumeration of Costas Arrays | arXiv:1404.0173 | 2014, Online. |
- Currently in Preparation:
| # | Title | To be submitted to |
|---|---|---|
| [P5] | Quadratic Optimization with New Sub-Optimality Guarantees- Part II: Sparse Signal Recovery | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
| [P4] | Quadratic Optimization with New Sub-Optimality Guarantees- Part I: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
| [P3] | Optimized Transmission for Centralized Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks | IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
| [P2] | Locating the Few: Sparsity-Aware Waveform Design for Active Radar | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
| [P1] | Constrained Training Sequence Design for Correlated MIMO Channel Estimation | IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
- Copyright 2009-2014 IEEE. Copyright 2013, 2014 Elsevier. The articles may be downloaded for research use only.
BSc Thesis:
"On the Reconstruction of 1D Signals from their Fourier Transform Phase or Magnitude--- with a Focus on Sparse Signal Reconstruction", Sharif University of Technology, 2009. Abstract, A related draft
Teaching
| Courses | Teaching period | Popular science description |
|---|---|---|
| Spectral Analysis of Signals |
Fall 2013 | See here |
| Applied Systems Analysis |
Fall 2009- Spring 2014 | See here |
| Empirical Modeling |
Fall 2011 | See here |
| System Identification |
Spring 2010 | See here |
| Digital Image Processing (preparing new homework assignments) |
Spring 2009 | See here and here |
Other
Some of my old mathematical paintings can be found here:
http://mathart.tictail.com/
http://www.mathart-butik.se/
