History of update section of the index page

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2021
- 03 I will present my recent paper on ‘‘Nonnegative Unimodal Matrix Factorization’’ in two (virtual) conferences on April: 20th Copper Mountain Conference On Multigrid Methods on April 1 and East Coast Optimization Meeting on April 2.
- 02 One journal paper accepted by Journal Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications; two conference papers: (this and this) submitted to EUSIPCO21 and one abstract submitted to Copper Mountain Conference On Multigrid Methods.
- 01 Our paper, which received very positive reviews from the reviewers, has been accepted for presentation at ICASSP21, which is to be held starting on June 6, 2021 as a fully virtual conference.
- 01 Congratulation to my colleague Valentin Leplat for passing his dissertation and public PhD defens, and wish him good luck to work as a postdoc, with the renowned Professor Yurii Nesterov in the near future.
- 01 I will move to Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo in Spring 2021 as a postdoc, and work with Stephen Vavasis and Hans De Sterck. I will also teach CO327. Going to miss Belgium!

2020
- 12 Congratulations to my PhD supervisor Nicolas Gillis for publishing his book on NMF
- 11 I will present this paper in the iTWIST20 workshop on 2-Dec-2020. video.
- 10 I passed my PhD public defence. video, public defence slide, thesis, errata
- 10 One paper submitted to ICASSP2021.
- 09 I passed my private defence. Public defence: 14th October, 17h CET, auditorium 23 (rue de Houdain, 9, 7000 Mons).
- 08 I have submitted my PhD thesis, hope it is not too bad.
- 05 My alma mater (HKU) just made a video on my story on ‘‘How to Plan for Your Postgraduate Studies’’.
- 04 This paper is accepted for publication as a regular paper in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- 04 The ICASSP 2020 presentation video of this paper is now available here, and slide.
- 02 One abstract on this paper submitted to EUROPT2020
- 02 One extended abstract on this paper submitted to iTWIST2020, accepted (2020-April)
- 02 (Conference cancelled) I will give a talk in the Minisymposium “Optimization for Unsupervised Learning” (organized by Stephen Vavasis), in SIAM OP2020, HKPolyU, Hong Kong, May 2020
- 01 One conference paper accepted by IEEE ICASSP 2020 in lecture session 'Optimization Algorithms 2 MLSP Lecture Session 9
- 01 One paper submitted to Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
- 01 I will give a talk in Workshop on Matrix and Tensor Computations in Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong on January 22, 2020
- 01 I will visit Michael Ng at the Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, this January

2019
- 10 One conference paper submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2020
- 09 I will attend “Wavelets and applications”, November 22th, 2019, ULB, Belgium
- 09 We organise the Workshop on Low-Rank Models and Applications in Mons, Belgium, September 12-13, 2019
- 08 I will give a presentation at the Dept. of Applied Maths, Faculty of Maths, U. Waterloo, Canada
- 07 One journal paper submitted to IEEE TSP
- 06 One journal paper accepted by IEEE JSTARS
- 05 Two conference papers accepted by GRETSI 2019 : one paper in English, one paper in French.
- 04 I will visit Hans De Sterck at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University Of Waterloo, Canada this August
- 03 I will attend and present at the ICCOPT 2019, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, August 2-8, 2019
- 03 I will give a talk in HKU EEE, April 1, 2019
- 03 Two conference papers submitted to GRETSI 2019, one abstract submitted to ICCOPT2019
- 02 One journal paper submitted to IEEE JSTARS, under review
- 02 One conference paper accepted by IEEE-ICASSP2019. (I will not go, my colleague will go)
- 02 I obtained my PhD candidature (see “Talks” for the slide)
- 01 I will visit Dr. T. K. Pong at the Dept. Applied Maths., HKPolyU, March 20-22,25 2019
- 01 I will visit Jeremy E. Cohen (CNRS), {INRIA,IRISA}, PANAMA, Rennes, France, February 11-15, 2019
- 01 One paper accepted in Neural Computation
- 01 We organise the Workshop on Low-Rank Models and Applications in Mons, Belgium, September 12-13, 2019

2018
- 11 iTWIST’18, Marseille, France.
- 10 The video of my presentation on Sparse Days 2018 in Toulouse is now available, see Talks.
- 09 I will present at the EOS SeLMA seminar on Oct 2, KUL, Leuven, Belgium.
- 09 1 paper accepted by Neural Computation.
- 07 I will attend and present at the Sparse Day 2018 on Sep 27-28, Toulouse, France.
- 05 I will attend and present at the OR 2018 on Sep 12-14, Brussels, Belgium.
- 05 I will attend and present at the IEEE WHISPERS2018 on Sep, 23-26, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 05 One paper submitted to Neural Computation (arXiv)
- 04 One paper submitted to IEEE WHISPERS2018, (accepted, 2018.05)
- 04 One abstract submitted to ISMP 2018, accepted as oral presentation.
- 02 I will attend the Kick-off meeting of SeLMA (Structured Low-Rank Matrix/Tensor Approximation) on Feb, 23, 2018 at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
- 01 I will attend and present at the ORBEL32 on Feb, 1-2, 2018, HEC Liège-Management School of ULiège, Belgium.

2017
- 12 I will attend and present at the SIAM-ALA18 on May, 4-8, 2018, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
- 11 One abstract submitted to SIAM ALA18.
- 10 I will visit my Alma mater, EEE department of HKU and the EE department of CUHK, and give some presentations, around end of November and early December in Hong Kong, also I am invited to give a presentation in the XMaths Workshop 2017 on December 20-21, 2017 at the Departement of Mathematics of Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
- 07 I will attend Autumn School: Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Science, August 28-31 in Trier University, Trier, Germany.
- 05 I will attend two conferences : SAMS2017 Workshop on Sparsity in Applied Mathematics and Statistics in Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussel, and the Doctor Honoris Causa | Data Sciences | May 18,2017 in Universit’e Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, all in Belgium.
- 02 I arrived in Belgium, new website launched. The old site will not be maintained anymore.

2016
- 11 I passed my M.Phil Thesis Defence in HKU !!!
- 09 I received Outstanding TA Award.
- 09 One conference paper submitted to IEEE TALE 2016. (accepted in 2016.11)
- 08.20 Championship of the 10th Postgraduate Paper Contest organized by the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter. link
- 07 I presented “Non-negative Tensor Factorisation” in Advance Health Informatics Gordon Research Conference.
- 05 Two conference paper submitted to IEEE DSP 2016, (accepted in 2016.07) and IEEE RO-MAN 2016. (accepted in 2016.07).
- 09 I received the Best TA Award. (ranked no.1 out of 140+ TAs and scored 95+ over 100)
- 04 I obtained the HKSAR Government Talent Development Scholarship 2014-15.

2015
- 01 One conference paper accepted by IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference 2015.

2014
- 12 I will be a T.A. of the course ENGG1111D Computer Programming and Applications in 2015 spring sem.
- 11, I have delivered a talk “Single Channel EOG-based HCI System For Simple Computer Control” in the IEEE CIS Junior Webinar series.
- 10, One journal paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II.
- 10, I joined the HKU MOOC team for the course HKU01x : Epidemics and HKU03x : Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought as beta tester and courseware design assistant.
- 09, Departmental news on my championships of 2 IEEE(HK) competitions.
- 06, Two videos of my final year project : video1, video2.
- 03, I obtained MPhil offer with full scholarship in HKU EEE, in the coming September.
2012
- 08, Website launched in HKU after ELEC1810 Practical Networking.