Announcements

Announcements about the academic activities of group members (mainly not about papers)

• Congratulations to David Kozak (spring 2020) and Zhishen (Leo) Huang (summer 2020) for successfully defending their PhD theses
• Congratulations to Will Shand for graduating from CU with his BS/MS and being accepted at U. Virginia for a PhD program
• Summer Internships for 2020:
  • Erik at Archer Dx
  • Osman at Fujitsu
  • Liam at IBM Research Dublin
• Stephen will be speaking at the AIMS South Africa Spring School on Mathematics of Data Science in September 2019
• Summer Internships for 2019:
  • Richie Clancy at Sensory
  • Zhishen (Leo) Huang at Respond Software
  • Osman Malik at IBM Research with Lior Horesh and Misha Kilmer
  • David Kozak is working with Lorenzo Rasco (MIT/Genova) in Italy at the University of Genova
• David Kozak and Zhishen Huang defend their comprehensive exams -- April, 2019
• Zhishen travels to Italy (Sestri Levante, Genova) for INNS Big Data and Deep Learning 2019
• Marc Thomson is awarded "Outstanding graduate of the college" (college of engineering and applied science)!
• Matt Maierhofer and Marc Thomson defend their Masters theses -- April, 2019
• Jessica Gronski and Eric Kightley defend their PhD -- April, 2019
  • Jessica is taking a job with United Healthcare in Minneapolis
  • Eric is taking a job with Respond Software in silicon valley
• Richard Border defends his Masters Thesis -- Thur Nov 15, 2018
• Jessica Gronski and Eric Kightley defend their comprehensive exams -- Nov 2018
• James Folberth defends his PhD -- Mon Oct 15, 2018
  • James is taking a job with ICR in AUrora
• Becker and Malik's paper to appear in NIPS/NeurIPS 2018
• Becker is co-PI on NSF Grant -- Aug , 2018

PI Todd Murray, for a 3-year NSF grant on photoacoustic tomography

• Becker receives NSF grant — Jul 19, 2018

Stephen Becker receives a 3-year $150k NSF grant from the DMS computational math program, award number 1819251, called "Extraction of Information from Scientific Simulations"

• ALCF Aurora project funded — Jul 19, 2018

Becker is part of Ken Jansen's "Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics" project, funded by ALCF. This gives them early access to the nation’s first exascale supercomputer.

• Eric will intern summer 2018 with Respond Software — May 21, 2018

Model Design Intern with Respond Software in Mountain View, CA

• Stephen a CCIMI Distinguished Visitor at Cambridge — May 15, 2018

In June 2018, Stephen is traveling to Cambridge UK to give a short course on optimization

• Farhad takes tenure-track position — May 15, 2018

Farhad will join U Mass Lowell's CS department in fall 2018

• Jessica will summer intern (2018) at SavvySherpa — Apr 5, 2018

See https://savvysherpa.com/

• Derek Driggs defends his Masters thesis — Apr 13, 2017
• Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki defends his PhD — Mar 22, 2017
• Derek Driggs wins "Outstanding graduate in research" in engineering — Apr 13, 2017

Derek Driggs is one of two winners of the engineering college's "Outstanding Graduates for Research". This is a college-wide honor. Congratulations Derek!

• Derek Driggs wins Gates Cambridge scholarship — Feb 1, 2017

BS/MS student wins the prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship for a funded PhD at Cambridge University (similar to the Oxford University Rhodes scholar)

• Partnership with Northrop Grumman — Nov 17, 2016

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Northrop Grumman for calendar year 2017, focusing on signal processing

• Paper accepted in GlobalSIP — Aug 20, 2016

'A RANDOMIZED APPROACH TO EFFICIENT KERNEL CLUSTERING' by Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki and Stephen Becker is accepted at the 2016 IEEE GlobalSIP Symposium on Symposium on Compressed Sensing, Deep Learning (http://2016.ieeeglobalsip.org/ ).

• Group awarded grant from Bloomberg — Jun 13, 2016

We have been awarded the Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant Program: http://www.bloomberg.com/company/announcements/data-science-research-grants-announcing-our-third-round-of-winners/ Many thanks to Bloomberg!

• Derek wins Goldwater Scholarship — Mar 31, 2016

Congratulations to group member Derek Driggs for becoming one of the 2016 Goldwater Scholars!

• March 2016, Alex Gittens and Michael Mahoney visit — Mar 28, 2016

Alex Gittens and Michael Mahoney visit

• March 2016, Front-range SIAM conference — Mar 28, 2016

2016 SIAM Front Range Conference, students Derek, Farhad and James present their work; their projects are summarized on the projects page.

• March 2016, students have internship offers — Mar 28, 2016

students have summer internship offers from the following companies:

Technicolor research (Bay Area), Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki

Sandia National Lab with Tamara Kolda, Jessica Gronski

ICR, James Folberth

• July 2015, Becker wins Beale-Orchard-Hays prize — Mar 28, 2016

July 12 2015, with Michael Grant and Emmanuel Candes, we have won the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize, awarded at ISMP 2015. The prize is offered every 3 years

• June 2015, Becker selected for 2015 ICML Reviewer award — Mar 28, 2016

In recognition of outstanding reviews for the International Conference on Machine Learning

• Nov 2014, robust PCA code online — Nov 01, 2014

Our robust PCA software is available on github

• Sept 2014, 2 papers accepted at NIPS — Sep 08, 2014

Two papers accepted at NIPS 2014 in Montreal

• NIPS workshop — Sep 08, 2014

Organizing NIPS 2014 “Out of the box: robustness in high dimension” workshop at NIPS 2014 in Montreal.