Address:

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Drexel University
Korman Center
Philadelphia PA 19104
USA

Tel:(215)895-6823
Fax:(215)895-1582

vstrela@mcs.drexel.edu

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~vstrela

Wavelet theory and multiresolution analysis. Implementation of wavelets and filter
banks in signal processing, numerical analysis and statistics. Stochastic models of
images. Noise removal. Toeplitz and circulant matrices. Preconditioning techniques.
Mathematics of finance.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. degree in Mathematics, June 1996.
Thesis under Professor G. Strang on "Multiwavelets: Theory and Applications''.

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,  Moscow, Russia
M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computational Methods, July 1992.
Thesis under Professor E. Tyrtyshnikov on "Experimental Exploration of Circulant Preconditioning''. Graduated with highest honors.

Tenure track:

Drexel University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Philadelphia,  PA
Assistant Professor, September 1999--present.

Postdoctoral:

Dartmouth College, Department of Mathematics, Hanover, NH
J. W. Young Research Instructor, September 1997--August 1999.

Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Statistics Group, Department of mathematics, London, UK
Research Associate, January--September 1997.

University of South Carolina, Department of Mathematics, Columbia, SC
Postdoctoral Fellow, August--December 1996.

Visiting:

New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY
Visiting Member,  September 2000--June 2001.

Flinders University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Adelaide, Australia
Visiting Professor,  October 2000, December 1999, July--August 1998.

Rostock University, Department of Mathematics, Rostock, Germany
Visiting Researcher, July 1997, June 1995.

Oxford University Computing Laboratory,  Oxford, UK
Research Visitor, September--December 1995.

Industrial:

Sorceron Inc.,  New York,  NY
Consultant, February 2001--present.

AWARE Inc.,  Cambridge, MA
Consultant, January--May 1995.
Visiting Member of Technical Staff, June--October 1994.

Other:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics,
Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant, September 1993--June 1996.
Research Assistant, January 1993--September 1993.

Rutgers University, Department of Mathematics,  New Brunswick, NJ
Teaching Assistant, September 1992--January 1993.

Institute of Numerical Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia
Laboratory Assistant, September 1989--August 1992.

Served as a referee for the following journals:

SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis,
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis,
Journal of Approximation Theory,
Mathematics of Computation,
Constructive Approximation,
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis,
Numerical Algorithms,
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics,
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences,
Royal Society Proceedings,
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing,
IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
Proceedings of  the IEEE,
Journal of Optical Engineering.


Member of  Program and Organizing Committees:

PERSPECTIVES  IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, a conference in honor of Gil Strang,
MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 3-4, 1999.


Member of Scientific Committee:

MATHTOOLS'99, second International Conference "Tools for Mathematical
Modeling", Saint Petersburg State Technical University, Saint Petersburg,
Russia, June 1999.

Drexel University,  Philadelphia, PA
Courses to be taught in 1999-00:
Functional Analysis I (graduate),
Functional Analysis II (graduate),
Functional Analysis III (graduate),
Introduction to Mathematical Finance.
Dartmouth College,  Hanover, NH
Courses taught in 1997-99:
Calculus for Advanced Placement First Year Students, Honors Section.
Current Problems in Analysis: Wavelets and Applications  (graduate),
Calculus and Linear Algebra,
Elementary Statistics,
Calculus with Algebra,
Mathematical Models in Social Sciences,
Fourier Analysis and Integration,
Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Course taught in Fall 1996:
 Elementary Differential Equations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Fall 1993--spring 1996, worked as a teaching assistant for courses:
Linear Algebra,
Applied Mathematics,
Wavelets, Filter Banks and Applications.

American Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship, 2000.
National Institute of Health,
    5-year research grant "Oxygen Measurement by Phosphorescent Quenching", 2000.
        Co PI of 3D imaging core.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK),
        3-year research grant, 1997.
Volkswagen Foundation,
        travel award to the workshop ``Spectral Methods and Wavelets in Digital Signal Processing'',
        University of  Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany, 1996.
Program on Spline Functions and the Theory of Wavelets,
        stipend, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 1996.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
        travel grant award to the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
        Hamburg, Germany, 1995.
German Research Association,
        travel grant to Workshop ``Multiscale Methods in Numerical Analysis'', Berlin, Germany, March 1995.
NATO,
        travel award to NATO Advanced Study Institute, Maratea,  Italy, 1994.

Image denoising using a Gaussian scale mixture model in the wavelet domain, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York NY, February 2001.

Wavelets, multiwavelets and applications, Time Frequency Seminar, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, December 1999.

Multiwavelets, finite elements and image denoising, Special Applied Mathematics Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York NY, November 1998.

Wavelets, invited workshop, Northeastern Section of the MAA, Fall 1998 Meeting at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury CT, November 1998.

Multiwavelets and their applications, two invited lectures, Workshop on Wavelets and Signal Processing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 1998.

Biorthogonal thresholding, colloquium lecture, Department of Mathematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, August 1998.

From wavelets to multiwavelets, colloquium lecture, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, February 1998.

Denoising via multiwavelet thresholding, colloquium lecture, Statistics Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, UK, March 1997.

Multiwavelets as a generalization of scalar wavelets, colloquium lecture, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK, October 1995.

Multiwavelets: Theory and applications, colloquium lecture, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, October 1995.

New results in multiwavelet theory, invited lecture, Department of Mathematics, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany, June 1995.

Multiwavelets, invited short course, AWARE Inc., Cambridge MA, June 1994.

See list of publications.

MWMP --- package of multiwavelet routines in MATLAB, available from
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~vstrela/MWMP

Fluent in English and Russian. Background in Spanish.
Enjoy traveling and writing short stories. Traveled around Europe, far north of Russia, North America, Central and South America, Australia, Southeast Asia.
Interested in Internet literature and multi media art.