Sophie M. Fosson – Curriculum Vitæ

Sophie M. Fosson
Curriculum Vitæ
Contact
Work Address DET (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications) - Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Home Address Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 104, 10129 Torino, Italy
+39 011 090 4246
Email [email protected]
Homepage http://calvino.polito.it/∼fosson
Current Position
Since 2012 Post Doc researcher on Compressed Sensing - "CRISP" ERC Project
at DET - Department of Electronics and Telecommunications - Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Enrico Magli
Since 2005 Teaching Assistant - Geometry (undegraduate course)
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Since 2012 involved in NEWCOM] (Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications) - 7th
Framework Program of the European Commission (FP7-ICT-318306), JRA 5 - WP
1.2.3
Previous Position
2009-2011 Research Assistant - Research Grant (Borsa di Ricerca) of Regione Valle d’Aosta
and Fondo Sociale Europeo
at DISMA - Department of Mathematical Sciences - Politecnico di Torino
Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Fagnani
Research
Field Applied Mathematics in Information Sciences
Main Interest Distributed Compressed Sensing
Education
2006 – 2008 Ph.D., Applied Mathematics for Industrial Technologies (70/70), Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa (Italy).
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Supervisor Prof. Fulvio Ricci
Thesis Deconvolution of quantized-input linear systems: an Information-theoretic approach
Advisor Prof. Fabio Fagnani
Thesis Defense Sep 19, 2011
2002–2005 M.S. (Laurea Specialistica), Mathematical Engineering - Ingegneria Matematica
(110/110 cum laude), Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
Topics Mathematical Physics, Mechanics, Introduction to Electronics, Information and
Coding Theory
Thesis Deconvoluzione di sistemi con ingresso quantizzato
Thesis Defense Oct 6, 2005
Advisor Prof. Fabio Fagnani
1999–2002 B.S. (Laurea), Mathematics in Engineering - Matematica per le Scienze
dell’Ingegneria (102/110) , Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
Topics Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science
Thesis Lo Spettro Wigner per processi stocastici stazionari e ciclostazionari
Advisors Prof. Letizia Lo Presti, Prof. Lorenzo Galleani
Publications: international journal papers
J7 A. Bay, D. Carrera , S.M. Fosson , P. Fragneto, M. Grella„ C. Ravazzi, E. Magli,
Block-sparsity based localization in wireless sensor networks, EURASIP J. Wirel.
Commun. Netw., 2015(1), pages 1-15, Jun. 2015
J6 C. Ravazzi, S. M. Fosson, E. Magli, Distributed iterative thresholding for l0 /l1 -
regularized linear inverse problems, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 61(4), pages 2081-2100,
Apr. 2015.
J5 F. Fagnani, S. M. Fosson, Analysis of reduced-search BCJR algorithms for input
estimation in a jump linear system, Signal Processing (Elsevier), 108, pages 341-350,
Mar. 2015.
J4 F. Fagnani, S. M. Fosson, C. Ravazzi, Consensus-like algorithms for estimation of
Gaussian mixtures over large scale networks, Mathematical Models and Methods in
Applied Sciences, 24(2), pages 1-21, Feb. 2014.
J3 F. Fagnani, S. M. Fosson, C. Ravazzi, A distributed classification/estimation algo-
rithm for sensor networks, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 52(1), pages
189-218, Jan. 2014.
J2 S.M. Fosson, Binary input reconstruction for linear systems: A performance analysis.
Fosson, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 7(1), pages 54-67, Feb 2013.
J1 S.M. Fosson, A Decoding Approach to Fault Tolerant Control of Linear Systems
with Quantized Disturbance Input, International Journal of Control, 84(11), pages
1779-1795, 2011.
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Publications: international journal papers - submitted
S3 J. Matamoros, S.M. Fosson, E. Magli, C. Antón-Haro, Distributed ADMM for
in-network reconstruction of sparse signals with innovations, 2015
S2 S.M. Fosson, J. Matamoros, C. Antón-Haro, E. Magli, A distributed soft thresholding
algorithm for jointly sparse signals recovery, 2015
S1 C. Ravazzi, S. M. Fosson, E. Magli, Randomized algorithms for distributed nonlinear
optimization under sparsity constraints, 2014.
Publications: Italian journal papers
I1 S.M. Fosson, Deconvoluzione di sistemi lineari con ingresso quantizzato: un approccio
basato sulla teoria dell’informazione, Bollettino Unione Matematica Italiana, 2012
Publications: international conference papers
C15 A. Bay, D. Carrera, S. M. Fosson, P. Fragneto, M. Grella, C. Ravazzi, E. Magli,
Dictionary Design for Sensor Network Localization via Block-Sparsity, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), October 19-21, Xiamen
(China)
C14 S.M. Fosson, J. Matamoros, C. Antón-Haro, E. Magli, Distributed algorithms for
in-network recovery of jointly sparse signals, Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse
Structured Representations (SPARS), Poster session, July 6-9, 2015, Cambridge,
UK
C13 J. Matamoros, S. Fosson, E. Magli, C. Antón-Haro, Distributed ADMM for in-
network reconstruction of sparse signals with innovations , in Proceedings of IEEE
Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 3-5 December
2014, Atlanta, USA
C12 F. Fraternale, L. Gallana,M. Iovieno, S.M. Fosson, E. Magli, M. Opher, J.D. Richard-
son , D. Tordella, Spectra and correlations in the solar wind from Voyager 2 around
5AU, 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 23-25 November,
2014, San Francisco, USA
C11 S.M. Fosson, J. Matamoros, C. Antón-Haro, E. Magli, Distributed support detection
of jointly sparse signals, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May 2014.
C10 C. Ravazzi, S. M. Fosson, E. Magli, Energy-saving gossip algorithm for compressed
sensing in multi-agent systems, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May 2014.
C9 C. Ravazzi, S. M. Fosson, E. Magli, Distributed soft thresholding for sparse signal
recovery, Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference, Atlanta, 9-13
December 2013.
C8 A. Fiandrotti, S. M. Fosson, C. Ravazzi, E. Magli, PISTA: Parallel Iterative Soft
Thresholding Algorithm for Sparse Image Recovery, Proceedings of Picture Coding
Symposium, San Jose, California, 8-11 December 2013.
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C7 A. Bay, P. Fragneto, M. Grella, S. M. Fosson, C. Ravazzi, E. Magli, Sparsity-based
Indoor Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks, Demo Session at 15th International
Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Pula, Italy, September 30-October 3
2013.
C6 F. Fagnani, S. M. Fosson, C. Ravazzi, A large scale analysis of a classification
algorithm over sensor networks, Proceedings of 51st IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control (CDC), Maui, Hawaii, 10-13 December 2012.
C5 F. Fagnani, S.M. Fosson, and C. Ravazzi, Input driven consensus algorithm for
distributed estimation and classification in sensor networks, Proceedings of 50th
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Orlando, Florida, pages 6654-6659,
2011.
C4 S.M. Fosson, Analysis of a Deconvolution Algorithm for quantized-input linear
systems through Iterated Random Functions, Proceedings of 18th IFAC World
Congress, pages 11302-11302, 2011.
C3 S.M. Fosson, P. Tilli, Deconvolution of quantized-input linear systems: Analysis via
Markov Processes of a low-complexity algorithm, Proceedings of 19th International
Symposium on MTNS, pages 59-66, 2010.
C2 F. Fagnani, S.M. Fosson, An information theoretic approach to hybrid deconvolution
problems, Proceedings of 17th IFAC World Congress, pages 10112-10117, 2008.
C1 L. Galleani, L. Lo Presti, and S.M. Fosson, The Wigner spectrum and its application
to stochastic processes, in IEEE-EURASIP NSIP 03, Grado, June 8-11, 2003.
Scientific Experience
Jul 6-9, 2015 SPARS 2015, Cambridge (UK)
Feb 26, 2015 Newcom] dissemination event, Telcom, Torino (Italy)
Feb 8-13, 2015 EUROCAST 2015, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
May 4-9, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Firenze, Italy
Jan 21-23, Newcom] meeting, Lisbon (Portugal)
2014
Jun 15-Jul 15, Visiting Carles Antón-Haro and Javier Matamoros, Centre Tecnològic Telecomunica2013 cions Catalunya (CTTC) - Newcom] mobility project
Feb 6-7, 2013 Newcom] meeting, Cachan (Paris, France)
Nov 21-22, Newcom] kick-off meeting, Pisa(Italy)
2012
Jul 1-6, 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Cambridge, MA
Feb 8-9, 2012 Workshop Algorithms and dynamics over networks, Dipartimento di Matematica,
Politecnico di Torino
Dec 12-15, CDC 2011, Orlando, Florida
2011
Aug 28 - Sep 2, 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy
2011
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Jul 14-15, 2010 Workshop Algorithms and dynamics over networks, Dipartimento di Matematica,
Politecnico di Torino
Jul 5-10, 2010 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
MTNS 2010, Budapest (Hungary).
Jun 22-26, Summer School Mathematical Foundations of Complex Networked Information
2009 Systems, Verrès (Italy). Speakers: Bela Bollobas, P.R. Kumar, Martin Wainwright,
Riccardo Zecchina.
Feb 8-10, 2009 Visiting Rainer Nagel, AG Funktionalanalysis, University of Tübingen (Germany).
Sep 16-19, SIMAI 9th Congress, Rome (Italy).
2008
Jul 13-Aug 02, SMI Summer School in Discrete and continuous dynamical systems by Proff. R.
2008 Nagel, K.Engels; Cortona (Italy).
Jul 06-11, 2008 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul (South Korea).
Apr 15-22, Short Course on Modern Coding Theory by Prof. Ruediger Urbanke, Torino (Italy).
2008
Dec 03-07, International workshop: Cooperative multi agent systems: distributed computation,
2007 estimation and control; Centro De Giorgi, Pisa (Italy).
May 14-18, Conference on Cryptology and Digital Content Security, Centre de Recerca
2007 Matemàtica Bellaterra (Spain).
Jan 30-Feb 03, Newcom winter school: Mathematical aspects of high performance codes: state of
2006 the art and open problems; Centro De Giorgi, Pisa (Italy).
Jun 5-6, 2003 Excellence Course: Time Frequency Analysis by Prof. Leon Cohen (Hunter College
of the City University of New York); Torino.
Scientific Communications
Jul 8, 2015 Distributed algorithms for in-network recovery of jointly sparse signals (Poster),
SPARS 2015, Cambridge (UK)
Feb 26, 2015 Presentation of JRA5 “Energy efficient data collection and estimation in wireless
sensor networks”, Newcom] dissemination event, Telcom, Torino (Italy)
Feb 12, 2015 Compressed Sensing: Basics and Beyond (1h Tutorial), EUROCAST 2015, Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
May 9, 2014 Distributed support detection of jointly sparse signals (Poster), ICASSP, Firenze
Jan 22, 2014 Distributed support detection of jointly sparse signals, Newcom] meeting, Lisbon
Feb 8 , 2012 Convergence of opinion dynamics models with stubborn agents: an open problem,
Workshop Algorithms and dynamics over networks, Dipartimento di Matematica,
Politecnico di Torino
Dec 15, 2011 Input driven consensus algorithm for distributed estimation and classification in
sensor networks, CDC 2011
Sep 1, 2011 Analysis of a Deconvolution Algorithm for quantized-input linear systems through
Iterated Random Functions, IFAC 2011, Milano.
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Jul 14, 2010 Deconvolution of Quantized-Input Linear Systems, Workshop Algorithms and dy-
namics over networks, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino.
Jul 05, 2010 Deconvolution of Quantized-Input Linear Systems: analysis via Markov Processes
of a Low-Complexity Algorithm, 19th International Symposium on Mathematical
Theory of Networks and Systems, MTNS 2010.
Feb 09, 2009 Seminar: Discrete Deconvolution Problems, Decoding Algorithms and Ergodicity;
University of Tübingen (Germany).
Sep 18, 2008 An Information Theoretic Approach to Hybrid Deconvolution Problems; SIMAI 9th
Congress, Rome (Italy)
Jul 09, 2008 An Information Theoretic Approach to Hybrid Deconvolution Problems; 17th IFAC
World Congress, Seoul (South Korea).
Work Experience
Aug, 2009 Occasional work for Kell S.r.l.; Roma (Italy). Job: Software Development for
Analysis of satellite MODIS data (C++).
Nov 1-30, 2007 Internship in the technical office of Ormig SpA; Ovada (Italy). Job: Software
Development to model the displacement of a pick and carry crane (C++).
Teaching Experience
Mar-Jun, 2015
Mar-Jun, 2014
Mar-Jun, 2013
Oct-Dec, 2012
Mar-Jun, 2011
Teaching Assistant: Geometria (Prof. Francesco Malaspina); Politecnico di Torino.
Teaching Assistant: Geometry (Prof. Riccardo Camerlo); Politecnico di Torino.
Teaching Assistant: Geometry (Prof. Letterio Gatto); Politecnico di Torino.
Telecommunications Laboratory (Signal Processing), Politecnico di Torino.
Teaching Assistant: Geometry (Prof. Letterio Gatto); Politecnico di Torino.
May-Jun, 2011 Teaching Assistant: Geometria (Prof. Paolo Valabrega); Politecnico di Torino.
Oct 2010 - Jan Teaching Assistant: Analisi Matematica (Prof. Riccardo Camerlo); Politecnico di
2011 Torino.
Feb-Jun, 2010 Teaching Assistant: Geometry (Prof. Francesco Vaccarino); Politecnico di Torino.
Oct-Dec, 2009 Teaching Assistant: Analisi Matematica II (Prof. Luca Ugaglia); Politecnico di
Torino.
Oct-Dec, 2009 Teaching Assistant: Analisi Matematica (Prof. Valentina Casarino); Politecnico di
Torino (site: Alessandria).
Feb-Jun, 2009 Teaching Assistant: Mathematical Analysis (Prof. Paolo Tilli); Politecnico di Torino.
Oct-Dec, 2008 Teaching Assistant: Analisi Matematica (Prof. Valentina Casarino); Politecnico di
Torino (site: Alessandria).
Feb-Jun, 2008 Teaching Assistant: Mathematical Analysis and Supplementary Mathematical Anal-
ysis (Prof. Paolo Tilli); Politecnico di Torino.
Oct-Dec, 2005 Teaching Assistant: Analisi Matematica (Prof. Valentina Casarino); Politecnico di
Torino (site: Alessandria).
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Technical Skills
OS Linux (Ubuntu), Microsoft Windows
Development C, C++, Octave, MatLab (Good Level)
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