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Email: robert.bassett "at" nps "dot" edu

Office: Glasgow Hall 289
Dept. of Operations Research
1411 Cunningham Rd
Monterey, CA 93943

Research

Publications and Preprints

Sensor Subspace Methods which are Robust to Impulsive Noise. 2023. Submitted. Experiments from the Paper.
One-Step Estimation with Scaled Proximal Methods Robert Bassett and Julio Deride. 2021. Mathematics of Operations Research
The Maximal Eigengap Estimator for Acoustic Vector-Sensor Processing. Robert Bassett, Jacob Foster, Kay L. Gemba, Paul Leary, Kevin B. Smith. 2021. Accepted to 2021 Conference on Sensor and Signal Processing in Defence
DeepFake Detection with Inconsistent Head Poses: Reproducibility and Analysis. Kevin Lutz and Robert Bassett. 2021. Accepted to 2021 ACMM Workshop on Audiovisual Deepfake Generation and Detection
Color and Edge-Aware Adversarial Image Perturbations. Robert Bassett, Mitchell Graves, and Patrick Reilly. 2021. Accepted to 2021 ACMM Workshop on Adversarial Learning
Fused Density Estimation: Theory and Methods. Robert Bassett and James Sharpnack. 2019. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)
Maximum a Posteriori Estimators as a Limit of Bayes Estimators. Robert Bassett and Julio Deride. 2018. Mathematical Programming
Stochastic and Convex Optimization in Statistical Estimation. Robert Bassett. 2018 PhD Dissertation
A quantitative Doignon-Bell-Scarf theorem. Iskander Aliev, Robert Bassett, Jesus A De Loera and Quentin Louveaux. 2017. Combinatorica
Log-Concave Duality in Estimation and Control. Robert Bassett, Michael Casey, and Roger Wets. 2016. Technical Report
Multistage Portfolio Optimization: A Duality Result in Conic Market Models. Robert Bassett and Khoa Le. 2016. Technical Report

Recent Presentations

In March 2022 I gave a department seminar surveying methods for speeding up Python code. Here are links to my slides and a zip file containing my examples.
SIAM Optimization Conference, 2021. One-Step Estimation with Scaled Proximal Methods. Presentation Link

Funding

ONR Research Grant (with P. Leary and J. Royset), "Decision Theoretic and Algorithmic Foundations for Autonomy in Adversarial Environments". 2020-2023. $501K.
Various agencies within the Department of Defense.

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