Cristian Budianu, Ph.D. Cornell University, Aug. 1999-Aug. 2004 Email: cbudianu_&_g_m_ai_l_

Cristian Budianu received the B.S. degree in 1999 from Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University "POLITEHNICA" of Bucharest, Romania. Since August, 1999 he has been a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He completed all the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in June 2004; his degree was conferred in Aug. 2004. His research interests include signal processing, communications, and applied probability. His current research focuses on analysis of non-parametric estimators and their application to wireless sensor networks. His advisor was Prof. Lang Tong.

Cristian Budianu is with  Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA.

Journal Publications 

1. C. Budianu, S. Ben-David and L. Tong
   "Estimation of the Number of Operating Sensors in Large-Scale Sensor Networks,"  abstract
   to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2006.
   
   
   
2. C. Budianu and L. Tong
   "Channel Estimation under Asynchronous Packet Interference,"  pdf file
   to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2004.
   
   
   
3. C. Budianu and L. Tong
   "Channel Estimation for Space-Time Orthogonal Block Codes,"  pdf file
   in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 50 , no. 10 , pp. 2515 - 2528, Oct. 2002
   
   
   
4. C.A. Marinov and C. Budianu
   
"Iteratively Improved Bounds in RC Circuits," pdf file
in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, I: Fundamental Theory and Applications,
vol. 45, no. 6 , pp. 663 - 666, June 1998

Conference Publications 

1. C. Budianu and L. Tong
   
"Good-Turing Estimation of the Number of Operating Sensors: a Large Deviations Analysis,"
Proc. of the ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.
 
2. C. Budianu and L. Tong
   
``Estimation of the Number of Operating Sensors in a Wireless Sensor Network,''
Proc. of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, November, 2003.
 
3. C. Budianu and L. Tong
   
``Packet Design for Communication under Asynchronous Interference,''
Proc. of 2003 MILCOM, Boston, MA, October, 2003.
 
4. C. Budianu and L. Tong
   
``Training Symbol Placement for Packet Transmissions under Asynchronous Interference,"
Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2003), Rome, Italy, June 2003.
 
5. C. Budianu and L. Tong,
   
``Channel Estimation for Space-Time Orthogonal Block Codes,''
Proc. Intl. Conf. Comm., Helsinki, Finland, June, 2001.