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Professor Patrick Wolfe

Positions	Professor of Statistics Honorary Professor of Computer Science
Phone (external)	+44 (0)20 3108 3251
Phone (internal)	53251
Email(*)	p.wolfe
Personal webpage	http://sisl.seas.harvard.edu
Themes	Multivariate and High Dimensional Data, Stochastic Modelling and Time Series

* The full email address is initial.surname@ucl.ac.uk

Biographical Details

Patrick J. Wolfe is Professor of Statistics and Honorary Professor of Computer Science at University College London. From 2001-2004 he held a Fellowship and College Lectureship in Engineering and Computer Science at Cambridge University, where he completed his PhD in 2003. Prior to joining UCL he was Assistant (2004-2008) and Associate (2008-2011) Professor at Harvard University. He serves on the Research Section Committee of the Royal Statistical Society, the editorial board of the IEEE's Signal Processing Magazine and as an Associate Editor for the new IMA journal Information and Inference.

Research Interests

Modelling and inference for graphs and networks; statistical imaging and image processing; time series and time-frequency analysis; audio signal processing and acoustic modelling.

Selected publications

• D. S. Choi, P. J. Wolfe, and E. O. Airoldi, "Stochastic blockmodels with growing number of classes," Biometrika, 2012, in press (arXiv:1011.4644).
• K. Hirakawa and P. J. Wolfe, "Skellam shrinkage: Wavelet-based intensity estimation for inhomogeneous Poisson data," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012, in press (arXiv:0905.3217).
• F. Luisier, T. Blu, and P. J. Wolfe, "A CURE for noisy magnetic resonance images: Chi-square unbiased risk estimation," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2012, in press (arXiv:1106.2848).
• D. Rudoy, T. F. Quatieri, and P. J. Wolfe, "Time-varying autoregressions in speech: Detection theory and applications," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 19, pp. 977-989, 2011 (arXiv:0911.1697).
• D. Rudoy, S. G. Yuen, R. D. Howe, and P. J. Wolfe, "Bayesian changepoint analysis for atomic force microscopy and soft material indentation," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, vol. 59, pp. 573-593, 2010 (arXiv:0909.5438).
• D. Rudoy, P. Basu, and P. J. Wolfe, "Superposition frames for adaptive time-frequency analysis and fast reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, pp. 2581-2596, 2010 (arXiv:0906.5202).
• M.-A. Belabbas and P. J. Wolfe, "Spectral methods in machine learning and new strategies for very large datasets," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 106, pp. 369-374, 2009 (10.1073/PNAS.0810600105).
• K. Hirakawa and P. J. Wolfe, "Spatio-spectral color filter array design for optimal image recovery," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 17, pp. 1876-1890, 2008 (10.1109/TIP.2008.2002164).