Eran Bashan, PhD

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I received a PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in May 2008. My research supervisors were professors Alfred Hero and Jeffrey A. Fessler. I also hold a M.Sc. degree from Tel Aviv University at the department of Electrical Engineering – Systems and a B.Sc. degree (cum laude) is from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. In the winter semester of 2004 I had the opportunity to work with professor Yaakov Bar-Shalom at the University of Connecticut.

 

Office: EECS #4305
Phone:
(734)-763-4497
Email: bashan AT umich DOT edu

Research Interests

My main interest is in Estimation Theory and its applications. Some specific examples are listed below.

· Efficient Adaptive measurement scenarios. Specifically, I’m interested in efficient search policy of a medium containing very few points of interest, e.g., early detection of breast cancer tumors. In general the problem statement is how to design an optimal system given a certain budget.

· Medical imaging applications.

· Non-standard problems, where the Fisher Information Measure is singular or almost singular. Another example is when the parameters of interest lie on the boundaries of the parameter space.

Publications

Journal papers

· E. Bashan, R. Raich, and A. O. Hero III, “Optimal Two-stage Search for Sparse Targets using Convex Criteria,” IEEE Trans. On Signal Processing, accepted for publication RR website

· E. Bashan, A. J. Weiss and Y. Bar-Shalom, “Estimation Near Zero-Information Points: Angle-Of-Arrival Near the Endfire,” IEEE Trans. On Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1250-1267, Oct. 2007.

Other

· E. Bashan, “Efficient Resource Allocation Schemes for Search,” Ph.D. Thesis, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May, 2008

· E. Bashan, R. Raich, and A. O. Hero III, “Adaptive sampling: Efficient search schemes under resource constraints,” University of Michigan, Communications and Signal Processing Lab., Tech. Rep. 385, Aug. 2007.

· Eran Bashan. "Practical performance of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator for problem characterized by Zero Information points.'' MSc Thesis, EE-Systems Department, Tel-Aviv University,  2003.

Talk

· Here is a link to my dissertation defense

· Here are the relevant slides