Jian-Feng Cai

Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

E-mail: jfcai@ust.hk        Phone: +852 3469 2248        Office: 3438

Short Vita

  • Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
    • Professor, 2019--
    • Associate Professor, 2015--2019.
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa.
    • Assistant Professor, 2011--2015.
  • Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles.
    • CAM Assistant Adjunct Professor, 2009--2011.
  • Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore.
    • Research Scientist, 2007--2009.
  • Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    • Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2004--2007.
  • Department of Mathematics, Fudan University.
    • M.Sc. in Computational Mathematics, 2001--2004.
    • B.Sc. in Computational Mathematics, 1996--2000.

Research Interests

My research interests are on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of problems related to information, data, and signals. My previous research focuses mainly on the efficient representation, sensing, and analysis of high-dimensional data, with applications to medical imaging, compressed sensing, signal processing, and machine learning.

Publications (Search for my publications and citations at Google Scholar)

Preprints

  • J.-F. Cai, Z. Xu, and Z. Xu, Interlacing Polynomial Method for Matrix Approximation via Generalized Column and Row Selection, preprint. pdf
  • J.-F. Cai, J. Li, and D. Xia, Online Tensor Learning: Computational and Statistical Trade-offs, Adaptivity and Optimal Regret, preprint. pdf
  • F. Bian, J.-F. Cai, and R. Zhang, A Preconditioned Riemannian Gradient Descent Algorithm for Low-Rank Matrix Recovery, preprint. pdf
  • J.-F. Cai, W. Huang, H. Wang, and K. Wei, Tensor Completion via Tensor Train Based Low-Rank Quotient Geometry under a Preconditioned Metric, preprint. pdf
  • J.-F. Cai, J.K. Choi, and J. Yang, Approximation Theory of Wavelet Frame Based Image Restoration, preprint. pdf
  • J.-F. Cai, J.K. Choi, and K. Wei, Approximation Theory of Total Variation Minimization for Data Completion, preprint. pdf
  • Y. Shen, J. Li, J.-F. Cai, and D. Xia, Computationally Efficient and Statistically Optimal Robust Low-rank Matrix Estimation, preprint. pdf

Journal Papers

  1. M.-C. Hsu, E.-J. Kuo, W.-H. Yu, J.-F. Cai, and M.-H. Hsieh, Quantum state tomography via nonconvex Riemannian gradient descent, Physical Review Letters, to appear. pdf
  2. J.-F. Cai, Z. Xu, and Z. Xu, Interlacing Polynomial Method for the Column Subset Selection Problem, International Mathematics Research Notices, to appear. pdf
  3. J.-F. Cai and K. Wei, Solving Systems of Phaseless Equations via Riemannian Optimization with Optimal Sampling Complexity, Journal of Computational Mathematics, 42(3):755--783, 2024. pdf
  4. J.-F. Cai, J. Li, and D. Xia, Generalized Low-rank plus Sparse Tensor Estimation by Fast Riemannian Optimization, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 118(544):2588--2604, 2023. pdf
  5. J. Yi, S. Dasgupta, J.-F. Cai, M. Jacob, J. Gao, M. Cho, and W. Xu, Separation-free super-resolution from compressed measurements is possible: an orthonormal atomic norm minimization approach, Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, 12(3):2351--2405, 2023.
  6. H.Q.Cai, J.-F. Cai, and J. You, Structured Gradient Descent for Fast Robust Low-Rank Hankel Matrix Completion, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 45(3):A1172--A1198, 2023. pdf
  7. J.-F. Cai, M. Huang, D. Li, and Y. Wang, Nearly Optimal Bounds for the Global Geometric Landscape of Phase Retrieval, Inverse Problems, 39(7):075011, 2023. pdf
  8. J.-F. Cai, J. Li, and J. You, Provable Sample-Efficient Sparse Phase Retrieval Initialized by Truncated Power Method, Inverse Problems, 39(7):075008, 2023. pdf
  9. J.-F. Cai, H. Liu, and Y. Wang, Gradient Descent for Symmetric Tensor Decomposition, Annals of Applied Mathematics, 38(4):385--413, 2022. pdf
  10. J.-F. Cai, Y. Jiao, X. Lu, and J. You, Sample-Efficient Sparse Phase Retrieval via Stochastic Alternating Minimization, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 70:4951--4966, 2022. pdf
  11. C. Bao, J.-F. Cai, J.K. Choi, B. Dong, and K. Wei, Improved Harmonic Incompatibility Removal for Susceptibility Mapping via Reduction of Basis Mismatch, Journal of Computational Mathematics, 40(6):914--937, 2022. pdf
  12. J.-F. Cai, J. Li, and D. Xia, Provable Tensor-Train Format Tensor Completion by Riemannian Optimization, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23(123):1--77, 2022. pdf
  13. J.-F. Cai, R. Chen, J. Fan, and H. Gao, Minimum-Monitor-Unit Optimization via a Stochastic Coordinate Descent Method, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 67(1):015009, 2022.
  14. J.-F. Cai, M. Huang, D. Li, and Y. Wang, Solving Phase Retrieval with Random Initial Guess Is Nearly as Good as by Spectral Initialization, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 58:60--84, 2022. pdf
  15. J.-F. Cai, J. Li, X. Lu, and J. You, Sparse Signal Recovery From Phaseless Measurements via Hard Thresholding Pursuit, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 56:367--390, 2022. pdf
  16. J.-F. Cai, J.K. Choi, J. Li, and K. Wei, Image Restoration: Structured Low Rank Matrix Framework for Piecewise Smooth Functions and Beyond, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 56:26--60, 2022. pdf
  17. J.-F. Cai, M. Huang, D. Li, and Y. Wang, The Global Landscape of Phase Retrieval II: Quotient Intensity Models, Annals of Applied Mathematics, 38(1):62--114, 2022. pdf
  18. J.-F. Cai, M. Huang, D. Li, and Y. Wang, The Global Landscape of Phase Retrieval I: Perturbed Amplitude Models, Annals of Applied Mathematics, 37(4):437--512, 2021. pdf
  19. J.-F. Cai, D. Li, J. Sun, and K. Wang, Enhanced Expressive Power and Fast Training of Neural Networks by Random Projections, CSIAM Transactions on Applied Mathematics, 2(3):532--550, 2021. pdf
  20. H. Wang, J.-F. Cai, T. Wang, and K. Wei, Fast Cadzow's Algorithm and a Gradient Variant, Journal of Scientific Computing, 88:41, 2021. pdf
  21. J. Li, J.-F. Cai, and H. Zhao, Scalable Incremental Nonconvex Optimization Approach for Phase Retrieval from Minimal Measurements, Journal of Scientific Computing, 87:43, 2021. pdf
  22. H.Q. Cai, J.-F. Cai, T. Wang, and G. Yin, Accelerated Structured Alternating Projections for Robust Spectrally Sparse Signal Recovery, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69:809--821, 2021. pdf
  23. J.-F. Cai, J.K. Choi, and K. Wei, Data Driven Tight Frame for Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction via Off-the-Grid Regularization, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 13(3):1272--1301, 2020. pdf
  24. J. Wang, W. Xu, J.-F. Cai, Q. Zhu, Y. Shi, and B. Yin, Multi-Direction Dictionary Learning Based Depth Map Super-Resolution with Autoregressive Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 22(6):1470--1484, 2020.
  25. Z. Li, J.-F. Cai, and K. Wei, Towards the Optimal Construction of a Loss Function without Spurious Local Minima for Solving Quadratic Equations, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66(5): 3242--3260, 2020. pdf
  26. K. Wei, J.-F. Cai, T.F. Chan and S. Leung, Guarantees of Riemannian Optimization for Low Rank Matrix Completion, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 14(2):233--265, 2020. pdf
  27. J. Li, J.-F. Cai, and H. Zhao, Robust Inexact Alternating Optimization for Matrix Completion with Outliers, Journal of Computational Mathematics, 38(2):337--354, 2020.
  28. J.-F. Cai, H. Liu, and Y. Wang, Fast Rank One Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Phase Retrieval, Journal of Scientific Computing, 79(1):128--147, 2019. pdf
  29. H.Q. Cai, J.-F. Cai, and K. Wei, Accelerated Alternating Projections for Robust Principal Component Analysis, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 20(20):1--33, 2019. pdf Code
  30. J.-F. Cai, T. Wang, and K. Wei, Fast and Provable Algorithms for Spectrally Sparse Signal Reconstruction via Low-Rank Hankel Matrix Completion, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 46(1):94--121, 2019. pdf Supplementary Material
  31. J. Ying, J.-F. Cai, D. Guo, G. Tang, Z. Chen, X. Qu, Vandermonde Factorization of Hankel Matrix for Complex Exponential Signal Recovery -- Application in Fast NMR Spectroscopy, IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 66(21), 5520--5533, 2018. pdf
  32. J.-F. Cai, T. Wang, and K. Wei, Spectral Compressed Sensing via Projected Gradient Descent, SIAM J. Optim., 28(3):2625--2653, 2018. pdf
  33. J.-F. Cai, Y. Rong, Y. Wang, and Z. Xu, Data Recovery on a Manifold from Linear Samples: Theory and Computation, Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, 3(1):337--365, 2018. pdf
  34. J. Ying, H. Lu, Q. Wei, J.-F. Cai, D. Guo, J. Wu, Z. Chen, X. Qu, Hankel matrix nuclear norm regularized tensor completion for N-dimensional exponential signals, IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 65(14):3702--3717, 2017. pdf
  35. H. Liu, J.-F. Cai, and Y. Wang, Subspace Clustering by (k, k)-sparse Matrix Factorization, Inverse Probl. Imaging, 11(3):539--551, 2017.
  36. Y. Wang, G. Wang, S. Mao, W. Cong, Z. Ji, J.-F. Cai, and Y. Ye, A Spectral Interior CT by a Framelet-Based Reconstruction Algorithm, Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, 24(6): 771--785, 2016.
  37. Y. Wang, G. Wang, S. Mao, W. Cong, Z. Ji, J.-F. Cai, and Y. Ye, A framelet-based iterative maximum-likelihood reconstruction algorithm for spectral CT, Inverse Problems, 32(11):115021(16pp), 2016.
  38. K. Wei, J.-F. Cai, T.F. Chan and S. Leung, Guarantees of Riemannian Optimization for Low Rank Matrix Recovery, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. & Appl., 37(3):1198--1222, 2016. pdf
  39. Y. Liu, Z. Zhan, J.-F. Cai, D. Guo, Z. Chen, and X. Qu, Projected Iterative Soft-thresholding Algorithm for Tight Frames in Compressed Sensing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 35(9): 2130--2140, 2016. pdf
  40. J.-F. Cai, X. Qu, W. Xu, and G.-B. Ye, Robust Recovery of Complex Exponential Signals from Random Gaussian Projections via Low Rank Hankel Matrix Reconstruction, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 41(2):470--490, 2016. pdf
  41. Z. Zhan, J.-F. Cai, D. Guo, Y. Liu, Z. Chen, and X. Qu, Fast Multi-class Dictionaries Learning with Geometrical Directions in MRI Reconstruction, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 63(9):1850--1861, 2016. Code
  42. J.-F. Cai, B. Dong, and Z. Shen, Image Restorations: A Wavelet Frame Based Model for Piecewise Smooth Functions and Beyond, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 41(1):94--138, 2016. pdf
  43. J.-F. Cai and W. Xu, Guarantees of Total Variation Minimization for Signal Recovery, Inf. Inference, 4(4):328--353, 2015. pdf (A preliminary short version is published in Allerton 2013)
  44. M. Cho, K.V. Mishra, J.-F. Cai, and W. Xu, Block Iterative Reweighted Algorithms for Super-Resolution of Spectrally Sparse Signals, IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 22(12): 2319--2323, 2015. pdf
  45. Y. Liu, J.-F. Cai, Z. Zhan, D. Guo, J. Ye, Z. Chen, X. Qu, Balanced sparse model for tight frames in compressed sensing magnetic resonance imaging, PLoS One, Vol. 10, e0119584, 2015. Code
  46. J. Wang, and J.-F. Cai, Data-Driven Tight Frame for Multi-Channel Images and Its Application to Joint Color-Depth Image Reconstruction, J. Oper. Res. Soc. China, 3(2):99--115, 2015. pdf
  47. X. Qu, M. Mayzel, J.-F. Cai, Z. Chen, and V. Orekhov, Accelerated NMR Spectroscopy with Low-Rank Reconstruction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54(3):852--854, 2015.
  48. J.-F. Cai, X. Jia, H. Gao, S. Jiang, Z. Shen, and H. Zhao, Cine cone beam CT reconstruction using low-rank matrix factorization: algorithm and a proof-of-princple study, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 33(8):1581--1591, 2014. pdf
  49. J.-F. Cai, H. Ji, Z. Shen, and G.-B. Ye, Data-driven tight frame construction and image denoising, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 37(1):89--105, 2014. pdf Code
  50. J.-F. Cai, and S. Osher, Fast Singular Value Thresholding without Singular Value Decomposition, Methods Appl. Anal., 20(4):335--352, 2013. pdf
  51. W. Zhou, J.-F. Cai, and H. Gao, Adaptive tight frame based medical image reconstruction: proof-of-concept study in computed tomography, Inverse Probl., 29(12):125006(pp. 1--18), 2013. pdf
  52. G. Ye, M. Tang, J.-F. Cai, Q. Nie, and X. Xie, Low-Rank Regularization for Learning Gene Expression Programs, PLoS One, 8(12):e82146(pp. 1--9), 2013.
  53. W. Xu, M. Wang, J.-F. Cai, and K. Tang, Sparse Error Correction from Nonlinear Measurements with Applications in Bad Data Detection for Power Networks, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 61(24):6175--6187, 2013. pdf
  54. H. Zhang, J.-F. Cai, L. Cheng, and J. Zhu, Strongly Convex Programming for Exact Matrix Completion and Robust Principal Component Analysis, Inverse Probl. Imaging, 6(2):357--372, 2012. pdf
  55. J.-F. Cai, B. Dong, S. Osher, and Z. Shen, Image Restoration: Total Variation; Wavelet Frames; and Beyond, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 25(4):1033-1089, 2012. pdf
  56. J.-F. Cai, H. Ji, C. Liu, and Z. Shen, Framelet Based Blind Motion Deblurring from a Single Image, IEEE Trans. Image Process., 21(2):562--572, 2012. pdf Code
  57. J.-F. Cai, Z. Shen, and G.-B. Ye, Approximation of Frame Based Missing Data Recovery, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 31(2):185--204, 2011. pdf
  58. H. Gao, J.-F. Cai, Z. Shen, and H. Zhao, Robust Principle Component Analysis Based Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography, Phys. Med. Biol., 56(11):3181--3198, 2011. pdf
  59. S.-L. Yang, J.-F. Cai, and H.-W. Sun, Multigrid algorithm from cyclic reduction for Markovian queueing networks, Appl. Math. Comput., 217(16): 6990--7000, 2011.
  60. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, and Z. Shen, Simultaneous Cartoon and Texture Inpainting, Inverse Probl. Imaging, 4(3):379--395, 2010. pdf
  61. J.-F. Cai, H. Ji, F. Shang and Z. Shen, Inpainting for Compressed Images, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 29(3): 368--381, 2010. pdf
  62. J.-F. Cai, E.J. Candès and Z. Shen, A singular value thresholding algorithm for matrix completion, SIAM J. Optim., 20(4): 1956--1982, 2010. pdf Code
  63. J.-F. Cai, and Z. Shen, Framelet based deconvolution, J. Comput. Math., 28(3): 289--308, 2010. pdf
  64. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, and M. Nikolova, Fast Two-Phase Image Deblurring under Impulse Noise, J. Math. Imaging Vis., 36(1): 46--53, 2010. pdf Code
  65. J.-F. Cai, S. Osher and Z. Shen, Split Bregman Methods and Frame Based Image Restoration, Multiscale Model. Simul., 8(2):337--369, 2010. pdf Code Code
  66. J.-F. Cai, S. Osher and Z. Shen, Convergence of the Linearized Bregman Iteration for $\ell_1$-Norm Minimization, Math. Comp., 78(268):2127--2136, 2009. pdf
  67. J.-F. Cai, H. Ji, C. Liu and Z. Shen, Blind motion deblurring using multiple images, J. Comput. Physics, 228(14):5057--5071, 2009. pdf
  68. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, L. Shen, and Z. Shen, Simultaneously Inpainting in Image and Transformed Domains, Numer. Math., 112(4):509--533, 2009. pdf
  69. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, L. Shen, and Z. Shen, Convergence Analysis of Tight Framelet Approach for Missing Data Recovery, Adv. Comput. Math., 31(1--3):87--113, 2009. pdf
  70. J.-F. Cai, S. Osher and Z. Shen, Linearized Bregman Iterations for Compressed Sensing, Math. Comp., 78(267):1515--1536, 2009. pdf
  71. J.-F. Cai, S. Osher and Z. Shen, Linearized Bregman Iterations for Frame-Based Image Deblurring, SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 2(1):226--252, 2009. pdf Code
  72. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, and M. Nikolova, Two-phase Approach for Deblurring Images Corrupted by Impulse Plus Gaussian Noise, Inverse Probl. Imaging, 2(2):187--204, 2008. pdf Code
  73. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, L. Shen, and Z. Shen, Restoration of Chopped and Nodded Images by Framelets, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 30(3):1205--1227, 2008. pdf
  74. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, and Z. Shen, A Framelet-Based Image Inpaiting Algorithm, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 24(2):131--149, 2008. pdf
  75. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, and C. Di Fiore, Minimization of a Detail-preserving Regularization Functional for Impulse Noise Removal, J. Math. Imaging Vis., 29(1):79--91, 2007. pdf Code
  76. X. Zhang, J. Cai, and Y. Wei, Interval Iterative Methods for Computing Moore-Penrose Inverse, Appl. Math. Comput., 183(1):522--532, 2006. pdf
  77. J.-F. Cai, M.K. Ng, and Y.-M. Wei, Modified Newton's Algorithm for Computing the Group Inverses of Singular Toeplitz Matrices, J. Comput. Math., 24(5):647--656, 2006. pdf
  78. Y. Wei, J. Cai, and M.K. Ng, Computing Moore-Penrose Inverses of Toeplitz Matrices by Newton's Iteration, Math. Comput. Modelling, 40(1--2):181--191, 2004. pdf
  79. J. Cai, and Y. Wei, Displacement Structure of Weighted Pseudoinverses, Appl. Math. Comput., 153(2):317--335, 2004. pdf

Proceeding Papers and Book Chapters

  1. J. Fan, Y. Han, J. Zeng, J.-F. Cai, Y. Wang, Y. Xiang, and J. Zhang, RL in Markov Games with Independent Function Approximation: Improved Sample Complexity Bound under the Local Access Model, The 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024. pdf
  2. J.-F. Cai, Y. Long, R. Wen, and J. Ying, A Fast and Provable Algorithm for Sparse Phase Retrieval, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. pdf
  3. J.-F. Cai, J.V.M. Cardoso, D.P. Palomar, and J. Ying, Fast Projected Newton-like Method for Precision Matrix Estimation under Total Positivity, Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023. (23 pages) pdf
  4. X. Wu, Z. Yang, J.-F. Cai, and Z. Xu, Spectral Super-Resolution on the Unit Circle Via Gradient Descent, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. (5 pages)
  5. Y. Yang, W. Ma, Y. Zheng, J.-F. Cai, and W. Xu, Fast Single Image Reflection Suppression via Convex Optimization, 2019 IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 8141--8149, Long Beach, 2019. pdf
  6. J.-F. Cai and K. Wei, Exploiting the Structure Effectively and Efficiently in Low Rank Matrix Recovery, Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Volume 19, pp. 21--51. pdf
  7. W. Xu, J. Yi, S. Dasgupta, J.-F. Cai, M. Jacob, and M. Cho, Separation-Free Super-Resolution from Compressed Measurements is Possible: an Orthonormal Atomic Norm Minimization Approach, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018. pdf
  8. J.-F. Cai, W. Xu, and Y. Yang, Large Scale 2D Spectral Compressed Sensing in Continuous Domain, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5905--5909, 2017. pdf
  9. M. Cho, J.-F. Cai, S. Liu, Y.C. Eldar, and W. Xu, Fast Alternating Projected Gradient Descent Algorithms for Recovering Spectrally Sparse Signals, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4638--4642, 2016.
  10. B. Zhang, W. Xu, J.-F. Cai, and L. Lai, Precise Phase Transition of Total Variation Minimization, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4518--4522, 2016. pdf
  11. J.-F. Cai, S. Liu, and W. Xu, A fast algorithm for reconstruction of spectrally sparse signals in super-resolution, Proc. SPIE 9597, Wavelets and Sparsity XVI, 95970A, 2015. pdf
  12. J. Wang, J.-F. Cai, Y. Shi, and B. Yin, Incoherent Dictionary Learning for Sparse Representation Based Image Denoising, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, 2014. pdf
  13. W. Xu, J.-F. Cai, K.V. Mishra, M. Cho, and A. Kruger, Precise semidefinite programming formulation of atomic norm minimization for recovering d-dimensional (D>=2) off-the-grid frequencies, Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, 2014. pdf
  14. C. Bao, J.-F. Cai, and H. Ji, Fast sparsity-based orthogonal dictionary learning and image restoration, 2013 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 3384--3391, 2013. pdf
  15. J.-F. Cai and W. Xu, Guarantees of Total Variation Minimization for Signal Recovery, Proceedings of 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 1266--1271, 2013.
  16. J.-F. Cai, R. Chan, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen, Tight Frame Based Method for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction, Proceedings to the Conference on Wavelet Analysis and its Application, Zhuhai, China, August, 2007, Contemporary Applied Mathematics, Vol 14, pp. 1--36, 2010. pdf
  17. J.-F. Cai, H. Ji, C. Liu and Z. Shen, High-quality curvelet-based motion deblurring using an image pair, 2009 IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1566--1573, Miami, 2009. pdf
  18. J.-F. Cai, H. Ji, C. Liu and Z. Shen, Blind motion deblurring from a single image using sparse approximation, 2009 IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 104--111, Miami, 2009. pdf
  19. J.-F. Cai, R.H. Chan, and B. Morini, Minimization of an Edge-Preserving Regularization Functional by Conjugate Gradient Type Methods, Image Processing Based on Partial Differential Equations, in Series: Mathematics and Visualization, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 107--120, 2007. pdf

Awards

Research Grants

Graduate Students

  • Jingyang Li, PhD in Mathematics, HKUST, 06/2023. First job: Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics/Department of Statistics, University of Michigan.
  • Ruixue Wen, PhD in Mathematics, HKUST, 08/2022. First job: High school teacher.
  • Juntao You, PhD in Mathematics, HKUST, 06/2021. First job: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
  • Zhenzhen Li, PhD in Mathematics, HKUST, 06/2020. First job: Postdoc, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
  • Jiaze Sun, MPhil in Mathematics, HKUST, 06/2019. First job: PhD Student, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.
  • Yang Yang, PhD in AMCS, U Iowa, 12/2018. First job: Senior Software Engineer, ASML Hermes Microvision Inc., San Jose.
  • HanQin Cai, PhD in AMCS, U Iowa, 05/2018. First job: PIC Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Tianming Wang, PhD in AMCS, U Iowa, 05/2018. First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
  • Suhui Liu, PhD in Mathematics, U Iowa, 05/2017. First job: Lecturer, Wuhan Institute of Technology.
  • Tianyi Zhang, PhD in AMCS, U Iowa, 08/2015. First job: Algorithmic Trader, Shanghai Cyndi Investment Co. Ltd.