{"id":167,"date":"2013-05-15T03:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/wordpress\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:45:57","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Laura Balzano<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<br \/>\nAssociate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Statistics, by courtesy<br \/>\nIEEE University of Michigan Student Branch Counselor<\/p>\n<p>I lead the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/spada\/\">Signal Processing Algorithm Design and Analysis (SPADA) lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find my <a href=\"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/spada\/Balzano_CV_January_2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CV here<\/a>, updated January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>My research projects are in the areas of statistical signal processing, matrix factorization, and optimization, particularly dealing with large and messy data. My interests are theoretical, however, my favorite mathematical problems are motivated by fascinating and important engineering problems. <!---I have worked in the areas of online algorithms, non-convex formulations for matrix factorization, compressed sensing and matrix completion, and inference with missing data. I have applied my work to problems in computer vision, environmental sensing, recommender systems, power networks, network inference, and sensor networks. ---><br \/>\n<span style=\"position: absolute; left: -43123px;\">AutoCAD 2016 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/abcoemstore.com\/product\/autodesk-autocad-2016\/\">https:\/\/abcoemstore.com\/product\/autodesk-autocad-2016\/<\/a> supports Windows 7 and Windows 8 and is available in both 32- and 64-bit versions.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Michigan-coe-eecs-horiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-282\" src=\"http:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Michigan-coe-eecs-horiz-600x63.jpg\" alt=\"Michigan coe-eecs-horiz\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Michigan-coe-eecs-horiz-600x63.jpg 600w, https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Michigan-coe-eecs-horiz-1024x108.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Michigan-coe-eecs-horiz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"position: absolute; left: -43123px;\"><br \/>\nPlay the <a href=\"https:\/\/slots-online-canada.ca\/\">Best Online Slots Sites in Canada<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Laura Balzano Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor of Statistics, by courtesy IEEE University of Michigan Student Branch Counselor I lead the Signal Processing Algorithm Design and Analysis (SPADA) lab. You can find my CV here, updated January 2026. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.eecs.umich.edu\/~girasole\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}