• Ph.D Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2008), MIT.
• S.M. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2003), MIT.
• S.B. Physics (1995), MIT.
• Employment:
  • 2008-Present Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL.
  • 1995-2000 Member of Technical Staff, Alphatech, Inc.

Research Interests:

• Inference and learning in graphical models.
• Information theory and statistical physics.
• Statistical signal and image processing.
• Design and control of electric power networks.
• Multiscale methods.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. S. Kudekar, JKJ, M. Chertkov (MC). Linear Programming Decoding using Frustrated Cycles. To Appear at Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2011.
2. JKJ, P. Netrapalli, MC. Learning Planar Ising Models. arxiv
3. S. Kudekar, JKJ, MC. Linear programming based detectors for two-dimensional intersymbol interference channels., To appear at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July 2011. arxiv
4. JKJ, MC. A Majorization-Minimization Approach to Design of Power Transmission Networks, In Proc. of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2010. arxiv
5. JKJ, V. Chernyak, MC. Orbit-Product Representation and Correction of Gaussian Belief Propagation. In Proc. of Inter. Conf. on Machine Learning, June 2009. arxiv
6. JKJ, D. Bickson, D. Dolev. Fixing Convergence of Gaussian Belief Propagation. In Proc. of Inter. Symposium on Information Theory, July 2009. arxiv
7. JKJ, Convex Relaxation Methods for Graphical Models: Lagrangian and Maximum Entropy Approaches. Ph.D Thesis. MIT, August 2008. mit
8. JKJ, A. Willsky (AW). A Recursive Model-Reduction Method for Estimation in Gaussian Markov Random Fields. IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, January 2008. ieee
9. D. Malioutov (DM), JKJ, M. Choi, AW. Low-rank variance approximation in GMRF Models: single and multiscale approaches. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP), October 2008. ieee
10. V. Chandrasekaran (VC), JKJ, AW. Estimation in Gaussian graphical models using tractable sub-graphs: a walk-sum analysis. TSP, May 2008. ieee
11. VC, JKJ, AW. Adaptive Embedded Subgraph Algorithms using Walk-Sum Analysis., In. Proc. of Adv. Neural Information Processing (NIPS), 2007. nips
12. JKJ, DM, AW. Lagrangian relaxation method for MAP estimation in graphical models. In Proc. of Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2007. arxiv
13. JKJ, VC, AW. Learning Markov Structure by Maximum Entropy Relaxation. In AISTATS, March 2007. jmlr
14. DM, JKJ, AW. Walk-sums and belief propagation in Gaussian graphical models. Journal of Machine Learning Research, October 2006. jmlr
15. JKJ, DM, AW. Walk-Sum Interpretation and Analysis of Gaussian Belief Propagation. NIPS, December 2005. nips