Andersen Ang | Papers | Talks | Notes | Misc.
- University of Southampton, UK
- andersen dot ang at soton dot ac dot uk
- CV GoogleScholar YouTube ORCiD
number: Erdös 4, journal 6, conference 13, cited-by 397, h-index 9
Update / Where I will be at
- I will teach AICE2001 Scientific Computing, to run Sem-1 AY 25-26*
- I am invited by UniBa as a visiting professor 2025. I am honored to be ranked 3rd in Math
- I visit Steve Vavasis in Dept. Combinatorics & Optimization, U.Waterloo, CA, July 27 - Aug 10
- I give a talk in "nonsmooth optimization" in ISMP2024, July 21-26, 2024, Montreal, CA
- I submit a paper on estimating the nonnegative rank
- I submit a paper on chordal distance
- I submit a paper on graph trend filtering, now under review
- I give a talk in LSE, May 16 2024
- My paper on optimization is accepted by SIAM Journal on Optimization
- I visit Nicolas Gillis April 15-20, Mons, BE
- Workshop on Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications, April 8-12, 2024, Antwerp, BE
- I got FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
- I am the module lead AICE1004 Mathematics for AI, to run Sem-1 AY 24-25
- I am the module lead COMP6260 Optimisation for machine learning, to run Sem-2 AY 24-25
- 3 full PhD scholarships are available**
Research: Computational Math & Theoretical Computer Science
- Mathematical programming Continuous structural optimization
- Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algebra
- Applied mathematics & machine learning that I found interesting
| Main focus now | Later | Later |
|---|---|---|
| NMF | PDE of optimization | Clifford Algebra |
| Optimization | Idempotent analysis | Tropical Algebra |
| Tensor & Low-rank | Operator Theory | Euclidean Jordan Algebra |
| Spectral graph | Manifold | Lie Theory |
| Submodular | Optimal Transport | Algebraic Topology |
Research example: some fancy figures
Experience & Education
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Lecturer (equivalent to US assistant prof), Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK
2023 Feb - now -
Postdoc, Dept. Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo, Canada
2021 Feb - 2023 Jan
Advisors: Stephen Vavasis & Hans De Sterck -
PhD (Applied Maths)
Faculté Polytechnique, Université de Mons, Belgium
2017 Feb - 2021 Jan
Advisor: Nicolas Gillis -
M.Phil (Neural Engineering)
University of Hong Kong
2014 Sep - 2016 Sep -
B.Eng (Electronics & Communication Engineering)
University of Hong Kong
2011 Sep - 2014 Aug