My MSc student Qinghong (Jackie) Xu successfully defended her Master’s thesis. Congratulations!
Jackies thesis is titled “Compressive Imaging with Total Variation Regularization and Application to Auto-calibration of Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging”. It contains a novel (and technical) theoretical analysis of TV regularization in compressed sensing, and a new method for auto-calibration in parallel MRI. Stand by for the paper later this year!
When approximating a multivariate function defined on an irregular domain, a good choice of sampling points is critical. In this paper, my PhD student Juan and I develop new, practical sampling strategies for which the sample complexity is near-optimal: specifically, it is linear (up to a log factor) in the degree of the approximation. This improves previous approaches which were at best quadratic in the degree. Here’s the paper:
Optimal sampling strategies for multivariate function approximation on general domains
I am very pleased to say that my postdoc Simone Brugiapaglia has recently accepted a tenure-track position at Concordia University. Congratulations!
Simone was also featured in an in-depth interview conducted by PIMS. Check it out here:
I am pleased to announce the arrival of three new members to my group this fall:
Welcome!
I am pleased to announce we will be organizing the 2020 Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference at Simon Fraser University. My organizing team and I are looking forward to hosting the conference attendees in Vancouver in June 2020. Stay tuned for more information!
Multivariate polynomials are excellent means of approximating high-dimensional functions on tensor-product domains. But what about approximations on irregular domains, as is quite common in applications? In our new paper, Daan Huybrechs and I tackle this question using tools from frame theory and approximation theory:
Approximating smooth, multivariate functions on irregular domains
We establish a series of results on approximation rates and sample complexity, deriving bounds that scale well with dimension in a variety of cases.
Matt King-Roskamp – an undergraduate student in my group co-supervised with Simone Brugiapaglia – was awarded runner-up in the poster competition at the recent SIAM PNW Conference for his poster Optimal Sampling Strategies for Compressive Imaging. He beat out a competitive field of graduate and undergraduate students from across the Pacific Northwest region.
Alex Bastounis, Anders C. Hansen and I have an article in this month’s edition of SIAM News:
From Global to Local: Getting More from Compressed Sensing
In it we explain how recent progress in the theory of compressed sensing allows one to significantly enhance the performance of sparse recovery techniques in imaging applications.
My former undergraduate student Anyi (Casie) Bao was a winner of the SFU Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Research Prize. Her work involved the development and analysis of compressed sensing-based strategies for correcting for corrupted measurements in Uncertainty Quantification. A draft version of the resulting paper can be found here:
Compressed sensing with sparse corruptions: Fault-tolerant sparse collocation approximations
Matt King-Roskamp – an undergraduate student in my group co-supervised with Simone Brugiapaglia – was awarded runner-up in two poster competitions this summer:
His work, entitled Optimal Sampling Strategies for Compressive Imaging, presents new, theoretically optimal sampling techniques for imaging using compressed sensing.