• Conference on Learning Theory 2016 at Columbia U. (Jun 24 - 26, 2016)
• International Conference on Machine Learning 2016 at New York City (Jun 19 - 21, 2016)
• Talk at ISIT, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China (Jun 2, 2016)
• Thesis released! [PDF] (May 06, 2016)
• Thesis defense! Special thanks to my advisor Professor John Wright, and my friend and collaborator Qing Qu! [Slides] (Apr 26, 2016)
• Code release: accompanying codes for the paper A Geometric Analysis of Phase Retrieval is released here (Apr 18, 2016)
• Talk at Prof. Qiang Du’s group seminar (Mar 10, 2016)
• Talk at Microsoft NYC (Feb 23, 2016)
• Paper release: Full version of the paper A Geometric Analysis of Phase Retrieval on arXiv. (Feb 22, 2016)
• Graduation Day at ITA Workshop 2016 at Scripps Seaside Forum, La Jolla (Jan 31 - Feb 05, 2016)
• Talk at Prof. Emmanuel Candes’ group meeting [Slides] (Feb 01, 2016)
• Visit Johns Hopkins University (Jan 20 - 21, 2016)
• My good friend and close collaborator, Mr. Qing Qu, receives the prestigious Microsoft PhD Research Fellowship for our work on provable nonconvex optimization! (Jan 15, 2016)
• IDeAS Seminar Talk at Princeton University (Dec 16, 2015)
• NIPS 2015 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Dec 07 - Dec 12, 2015)
• Paper release: The expository paper When Are Nonconvex Problems Not Scary? gives a concise description of the structured nonconvex problems seen in eigen-decomposition, complete dictionary recovery, generalized phase retrieval, ICA and tensor decomposition. (Oct 20, 2015)
• Award: Our paper, Complete Dictionary Recovery over the Sphere, receives best student paper award from SPARS 2015. (July 07, 2015)
• SPARS 2015 at Cambridge, UK (Jul 6 - 9, 2015)
• ShanghaiTech Symposium on Data Science (SSDS) 2015 at Shanghai, China (Jun 23 - 26, 2015)
• Paper release: full version of the paper Complete Dictionary Recovery over the Sphere on arXiv. (Apr 27, 2015)
• Code release: accompanying codes for the paper Complete Dictionary Recovery over the Sphere is released here (Apr 26, 2015)
• Code release: accompanying codes for the paper Finding a sparse vector in a subspace: Linear sparsity using alternating directions is released here (Apr 26, 2015)
• Information Theory and Concentration Phenomena at IMA, University of Minnesota (Apr 13 - 17, 2015)
• DTC Seminar Talk at University of Minnesota (Apr 16, 2015)
• 9th Annual Machine Learning Symposium at The New York Academy of Sciences (Mar 13, 2015)
• Talk at statistics student seminar at Columbia U (Mar 11, 2015)
• Full version of the paper Finding a sparse vector in a subspace: Linear sparsity using alternating directions on arXiv. (Dec 15, 2014)
• NIPS 2014 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Dec 08 - Dec 13, 2014)
• Thesis proposal [Slides] (Nov 21, 2014)
• ICERM workshop on Approximation, Integration, and Optimization at Brown University (Sep 29 - Oct 03, 2014)
• Our paper on finding sparse vector in a subspace accepted by NIPS 2014. Final manuscript is forthcoming! (Sep 09, 2014)
• We will work with physicists to develop tools for extracting basic motifs in microscopy images in the coming year. [See here and the proposal] (July 03 2014)
• Migrating most part of CU website to here, featuring a personalized domain! (Jan 24, 2014)
• Journal version of point-to-subspace query in $\ell^1$ submitted [arXiv]. (Sep 07, 2013)
• Receiving third renewal of scholarship from WFPF, big thanks to WFPF! (Oct 16, 2013)
• Attending Princeton Minicourse on Spectral Methods. (June 20 - 21, 2013)
• Attending ECCV12 at Florence, Italy! (Oct 07 - 13, 2012)
• Receiving scholarship renewal from the Wei Family Private Foundation. Heartfelt thanks to WFPF! (Sep 06, 2012)
• Attending MMDS’12 and presenting one poster on point-to-subspace query in $\ell^1$. (Jul 10, 2012)
• One paper on point-to-subspace query in $\ell^1$ accepted by ECCV’12 [arXiv]. (Jun 25, 2012)
• Receiving official scholarship cheque from the Wei Family Private Foundation. (Sep 02, 2011)
• Starting PhD life @ EE, Columbia and working with Prof. John Wright again. (Sep 01, 2011)