Mark Matthew Sterling UR/Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mark Matthew Sterling

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

Research and Scientific Interests

Signal Processing for Musical and Audio Data
Amplifier Linearization
Lie Groups, Representation Theory, Finite Reflection Groups and Weyl Groups
Costas Arrays
Homological Algebra
Time-Frequency Analysis

Education

2002 -- Present Ph.D. Candidate, University of Rochester
2002 -- 2004 MSEE, University of Rochester
1998 -- 2002 BSEE, University of Rochester

Publications

M. Sterling, X. Dong, and M.Bocko, "Representation of Solo Clarinet Music by Physical Modeling Synthesis," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Sig. Proc. 2008 ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, NV, March 30 -- April 4 2008. pdf
X. Dong, M. Sterling, and M. Bocko, "Empirical Physical Modeling Based Music Synthesis and Representation," J. Acoust Soc. Am., Vol. 122, No. 5, Pt. 2, November 2007.
M. Sterling and M. Bocko, "Direct Digital Predistortion on a Computer Controlled FPGA" in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Sig. Proc. 2007 ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, HI, 15--20 April 2007, pp. II-369 - II-372. pdf
M. Sterling, E. L. Titlebaum, X. Dong, and M. Bocko, "An Adaptive Data Spread-Spectrum Data Hiding Technique for Digital Audio" in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Sig. Proc. ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, 18--23 March 2005, pp. 685--688. pdf

Preprints

M. Sterling, "A statistic on the roots of a finite reflection group and a correspondence between the height function and Bruhat order," arXiv:0803.0782v4 [math.CO].

Technical

extensive Matlab experience, C++, php, html, VHDL, GPIB/HPIB, GAP
laboratory acoustic and microwave measurements
TeX, LaTex

Research Statement

I have done research in areas of steganography, amplifier linearization and predistortion, and physical modeling of musical instruments. My primary focus is musical signal processing. At the Music Research Laboratory we are attempting to develop novel technologies for synthesis and representation of music.