Education 

  • Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
  • M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2000 

Publications: 

Thesis 

Y. Rachlin, ``On the Interdependence of Sensing, Accuracy, and Complexity in Large-Scale Detection Applications,’’ 2007. (pdf) 

Conference Papers:

B. Narayanaswamy, Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, "The sequential decoding metric for detection in sensor networks," to appear in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2007.

 Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, ``Temporal Sensing Capacity,'' in Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2006. (pdf)

 Y. Rachlin, B. Narayanaswamy, R. Negi, J. Dolan, and P. Khosla, ``Increasing Sensor Measurements to Reduce Detection Complexity in Large-Scale Detection Applications,'' in Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2006. (pdf)

 Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, “On the Interdependence of Sensing and Estimation Complexity in Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2006.  (pdf)

 Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, “Sensing Capacity for Markov Random Fields,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2005. (pdf)

Y. Rachlin, J. Dolan, and P. Khosla, “Efficient Mapping Through Exploitation of Spatial Dependencies,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2005.

 Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, “Sensing Capacity for Discrete Sensor Network Applications,” in Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2005. (pdf)

 Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, “Sensing Capacity for Target Detection,” in Proceedings of the Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2004. (pdf)

 Y. Rachlin, J. Dolan, and P. Khosla, “Learning to Detect Partially Labeled People,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2003.

Journal Paper:

Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla, ``The Sensing Capacity of Sensor Networks” submitted (pdf)

Book Chapter:

R. Negi, Y. Rachlin, and P. Khosla, ``The Sensing Capacity of Sensor Networks,” book chapter in preparation for Wireless Sensor Networks. Signal Processing and Communications Perspectives,Wiley, Edited by A. Swami, Q. Zhao, Y. Hong, and L. Tong.