Past Projects

Fall 2025-26

  • Convex Rate-Distortion Formulation for Mixed-Fidelity Compression [report] [code]
  • ML-Based Cluster Counting for On-Detector Data Compression in Future Colliders [report] [code]
  • Exploring Depth-Limited and Dynamic Huffman Coding with Web-Based Visualization [report] [code]
  • Compression-based Adaptive Sampling for PPG Heart Rate Estimation [report] [code]
  • Dynamic k-Space-Aware Coil Compression for Accelerated MRI [report] [code]
  • The Impact of Image Compression on Downstream Vision Models [report] [code]
  • Optimizing Compression Through Parallelization with rANS [report] [code]
  • Structure-Aware Compression of Tabular Data [report] [code]
  • Speeding Up the Burrows-Wheeler Transform [report] [code]
  • Video Compression Using 2D Gaussian Splatting
  • LLM Based Compression [report] [code]
  • Compressing Human Genomes with Parental Side Information [report] [code]
  • Morphing Match Chain for LZ77 Match Finding [report] [code]
  • Lossy Video Compression for LLMs [report] [code]
  • Convex-CALDERA: LLM Weight Compression via Convex Optimization with Low-Rank and Low-Precision Factor
  • Joint Source Channel Coding of VAE Compressed Images [report] [code]
  • Reinforcement Learning for LZ78 Shared Dictionary Construction
  • Neural Lossy Compression for Denoising
  • Entropy Coding Improvements for LZ77 in SCL [report] [code]
  • An Information-Theoretic Perspective on LLM Tokenizers
  • Hardware Acceleration for Tunstall Coding in GPUs [report] [code]
  • Data-Aware Mixed-Rank Compression of Large Language Models [report] [code]
  • Efficient FSE: A Pedagogical Implementation and Performance Analysis of Finite State Entropy [report] [code]
  • Dictionary Management for LZ78 and LZW [report] [code]

Fall 2023-24

  • LZ78 Compression Algorithm
  • Efficient BWT and FM Index
  • Compression of Two-Electron Integrals
  • LZW Compression Algorithm
  • Optimizing LZ77 implementation in SCL
  • Compression and Side Channel Analysis
  • Compression and Neural Data
  • Context Tree Weighting
  • Hardware Implementation of Discrete Cosine Transform and Quantization for Image Compression
  • Hardware-level parallelism in GPUs to accelerate data compression
  • Prediction by Partial Matching in Text Compression
  • Variants of Huffman Coding
  • Alias rANS and First-Order Markov rANS
  • Bits-Back Multiset Compression to Achieve User-Defined Information Invariance

Fall 2022-23

  • rANS Bits Back Coding
  • PNG Implementation in SCL
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging compression
  • Impact of lossy compression of speech data on downstream speech processing tasks
  • Optimized LZ77
  • Hardware Implementations of Huffman/rANS coders
  • Compressor as Entropy Estimator for Neural Action Potentials in Microelectrode Array Recordings
  • Lossy Text Compression using Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Alias Method for Sampling
  • Exploration and Implementations of Perceptual Image Metrics
  • Advanced Audio Coding Implementation
  • Reinforcement Learning for Lossless Compression
  • Tabular data compression using Chow-Liu trees
  • Context Tree Weighting
  • Adaptive Huffman Codes
  • Quantization in Schrodinger simulation of Deep Quantum Fourier transform