A nobody working on TRASH (Theoretical Research Almost Scientifically-Hollow)
Pretentious numbers: journal 5| conference 13| cited-by 309| h-index 8| i10-index 8| Erdös number 4
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Contact Building 32, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Email andersen dot ang at soton dot ac dot uk
Update
- I (may) participate in the Workshop on Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications, April 8-13, 2024, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- I will give a talk in the Control and Optimisation seminar series in Imperial College London, Oct-11-2023
- I gave a talk in Numerical Analysis in 21st century & retirement of Nick Trefethen, Aug 14-17, University of Oxford
- I presented in Distance-based methods in Machine Learning, University College London, 27-28 June 2023
- I will teach all parts on discrete structres of COMP1215 next semester, see Notes
- I was invited and gave a talk in Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 6-Jun-2023
- I recently joined Uni. Southampton as an assistant professor. I am looking for PhD / MSc students, more info here
Research: Theoretical computer science
- Mathematical programming for machine learning
Continuous nonlinear nonconvex nonsmooth optimization (main focus)
Discrete combinatorial graph optimization (not main focus)
- Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Geometry, identifiability, algorithm, modelling
- Machine Learning applications
Signal processing (single-channel audio blind source separation)
Imaging (remote sensing)
Bioinformatics (gene regression)
Things I read recently (ver. 2023 Aug 8)
- Multilevel / multiscale / multigrid methods
- Subdifferential
- Inexact proximal gradient method
- Trust-region methods
- Proximal average
- Proximal bundles
- Zeroth order method
- Semi-smooth Newton's method
- Sum-of-norms clustering
- Wasserstein metric
- Spectral graph theory
- Matorid
- Snake: active contour model
- Sparse optical flow
- Manifold optimization
- Exterior algebra and calculus
- Fractional calculus
Experience & Education
Lecturer (assistant professor equivalent), School of Electronics and 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 - 2020 Oct
Advisor: Nicolas Gillis
B.Eng (Electronics & Communication Engineering) & M.Phil (Biomedical Engineering)
University of Hong Kong, 2011 Sep - 2016 Sep