Welcome

Teaching, research, games, and creative work at the intersection of electrical engineering and mathematics.

Research interests

  • Graph theory, information theory, and error-correcting codes
  • Graph-and-symbol communication and graph-based signal processing
  • Signal and image processing, including medical imaging
  • Radar imaging, detection, and estimation
Research & publications

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2024
  • M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2023
  • B.S., Mathematics, University of Wyoming, 2011

Mathematics Genealogy Project

Contact

Professional: terlep@rose-hulman.edu
Personal: taterlep@gmail.com

Rose-Hulman faculty profile

Recommended reading

  • I, Robot, The Caves of Steel, Foundation — Isaac Asimov
  • The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Halloween Tree — Ray Bradbury
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
  • A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
  • Reaper Man, Soul Music, Going Postal, Thief of Time — Terry Pratchett
  • Anathem — Neal Stephenson
  • The Tale of Shikanoko — Lian Hearn
  • Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie
  • The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton
  • Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
  • The Martian — Andy Weir
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World Is Forest, The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Dune — Frank Herbert
  • Leviathan Wakes — James S. A. Corey
  • Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
  • Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card
  • Iron Widow — Xiran Jay Zhao

Around Terre Haute

Local people and places I recommend, from my chiropractor to my favorite pizza.

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A daily diversion

Lights Out

Dedicated to Les Shader

Turn every light off. A tap toggles that tile and its neighbors above, below, left, and right. Gaps do not connect.

A new board each day. Every puzzle has exactly one solution — can you find it in the fewest moves?

Calendar puzzle board with colored pieces leaving February and 29 uncoveredNew daily puzzleDaily calendar puzzleFit eight pieces so only today’s date shows. Play →

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