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Wotao Yin
Associate Professor
Associate Professor in Computational and Applied
Mathematics
e-mail:[email protected]
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B.S. (2001) Mathematics Nanjing University
M.Sc. (2003) Operations Research Columbia University
Ph.D. (2006) Operations Research Columbia University
Websites
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Research Areas
Computational optimization and its applications in signal/image processing, machine learning,
medical imaging,and other inverse problems.
Selected Publications
Refereed articles
Q. Ling, Z. Wen, and W. Yin "Decentralized jointly sparse signal recovery by reweighted Lq
minimization." IEEE Transactions on Signal ProcessingIn Press
W. Guo and W. Yin "Edge guided reconstruction for compressive imaging." SIAM Journal on
Imaging Sciences, 5(3) (2012) : 809-834.
Articles
C. Li, W. Yin, H. Jiang, and Y. Zhang "An efficient augmented lagrangian method with
applications to total variation minimization." Computational Optimization and Applications
(2012) Submitted
H. Yan, X. Wang, W. Yin, T. Pan, M. Ahmad, M. Mou, L. Cervino, X. Jia, and S. Jiang
"Extracting respiratory signals from thoracic cone beam CT projections." Rice CAAM tech
report TR12-23 (2012)
H. Zhang, W. Yin, and L. Cheng "Necessary and sufficient conditions of solution uniqueness in
L1 minimization." (2012) Submitted
J. Shi, W. Yin, and S. Osher "A new regularization path for logistic regression via linearized
Bregman." Inverse Problems (2012) Submitted
M.-J. Lai and W. Yin "Augmented L1 and nuclear-norm models with a globally linearly
convergent algorithm." SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (2012) Submitted
W. Deng and W. Yin "On the global and linear convergence of the generalized alternating
direction method of multipliers." SIAM Journal on Optimization (2012) Submitted
Y. Xu and W. Yin "A block coordinate descent method for multi-convex optimization with
applications to nonnegative tensor factorization and completion." SIAM Journal on Imaging
Sciences (2012) Submitted
Y. Xu, W. Yin, and S. Osher "Learning circulant sensing kernels." SIAM Journal on Imaging
Sciences (2012) Submitted
Refereed conference papers
C. Studer, W. Yin, and R. Baraniuk "Signal representation with minimum L_infinity
norm." Control, and Computing (2012)
Q. Ling, Y. Xu, W. Yin, and Z. Wen "Decentralized low-rank matrix completion." (2012)
Presentations
Invited Talks
Invited Speaker. "Algorithms for Recovering Structured Solutions." Siemens Research,
Princeton, NJ. (05/23/2012)
Invited Speaker. "Augmented L1 and nuclear-norm minimization with a globally linearly
convergent algorithm." Int’l Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Berlin, Germany.
(08/20/2012)
Invited Speaker. "Channel Estimation and Optimizing Circulant Sensing Kernel." Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. (06/14/2012)
Invited Speaker. "L2 helps L1 with Global Linear Convergence." Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing, China. (06/13/2012)
Invited Speaker. "On the global linear convergence of the ADMM." Shanghai Jiaotong
University, Shanghai, China. (06/28/2012)
Invited Speaker. "Smooth Sparse Optimization." Department of Industrial & Enterprise
System Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (11/12/2012)
Invited Speaker. "Smooth Sparse Optimization." Department of Mathematics, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA. (12/06/2012)
Invited Speaker. "Smoothed Sparse Optimization." SIAM Conference on Imaging,
Philadelphia, PA. (05/20/2012)
Invited Speaker. "TBA." Int’l Symposium on Compressed Sensing: Theory and Applications,
Tianjin, China. (06/11/2012)
Invited Speaker. "The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers." Department of Applied
Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. (10/04/2012)
Workshops
Invited Speaker. "Global Linear Convergence of the ADMM." Int’l Workshop on Mathematical
Issues in Information Sciences, Xi’an, China. (07/09/2012)
Invited Speaker. "Tutorial: Algorithms for Sparse Optimization." Int’l Workshop on
Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences, Xi’an, China. (07/08/2012)
Supervised Theses & Dissertations
Jorge Castanon, MA On L1 Minimization for i-ll Conditioned Linear Systems with Piecewise
Polynomial Solutions. (2012) (Committee Member)
Wei Deng, MA Recovering data with group sparsity by alternating direction methods. (2012)
(Thesis or Dissertation Director)
Matthew Turner, MA Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Novel Architectures Applied
to Compressive Imaging Systems. (2012) (Committee Member)
Ricardo Gallardo, MA SAR imaging of moving targets. (2012) (Committee Member)
Chinmay Hedge, PhD Nonlinear signal models: geometry, algorithms, and analysis. (2012)
(Thesis or Dissertation Director)
David Peixotto, PhD Low-level Haskell code: measurements and optimization techniques.
(2012) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)
Yangyang Xu, MA Block coordinate descent for regularized multi-convex optimization. (2013)
(Thesis or Dissertation Director)