2016-06-20来源: 浏览次数:
报告时间：6月22日（星期三）下午15:00-16:30
报告地点：新科技楼1602会议室
报告人：苏文藻（Man-Cho Anthony So）
内容简介：
Recently, there has been a growing interest in applying Newton-type methods to solve structured convex optimization problems that arise in machine learning and statistics. A major obstacle to the design and analysis of such methods is that many problems of interest are neither strongly convex nor smooth. In this talk, we will present some design techniques for overcoming such obstacle and report some recent progress on analyzing the convergence rates of the resulting Newton-type methods using error bounds. We will also discuss some directions for further study.
个人介绍：
Anthony Man-Cho So received his BSE degree in Computer Science from Princeton University with minors in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Engineering and Management Systems, and German Language and Culture. He then received his MSc degree in Computer Science and his PhD degree in Computer Science with a PhD minor in Mathematics from Stanford University. Dr. So joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2007. He currently serves as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. His recent research focuses on the interplay between optimization theory and various areas of algorithm design, such as computational geometry, machine learning, signal processing, bioinformatics, and algorithmic game theory.
Dr. So currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. He has also served on the editorial board of Mathematics of Operations Research. He received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2014 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, the 2010 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Optimization Society Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, and the 2010 CUHK Young Researcher Award. He also received the 2008 Exemplary Teaching Award and the 2011, 2013, 2015 Dean's Exemplary Teaching Award from the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK, and the 2013 Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award from CUHK.
主办单位：雷达信号处理国家重点实验室 国际合作与交流处
报告地点：新科技楼1602会议室
报告人：苏文藻（Man-Cho Anthony So）
内容简介：
Recently, there has been a growing interest in applying Newton-type methods to solve structured convex optimization problems that arise in machine learning and statistics. A major obstacle to the design and analysis of such methods is that many problems of interest are neither strongly convex nor smooth. In this talk, we will present some design techniques for overcoming such obstacle and report some recent progress on analyzing the convergence rates of the resulting Newton-type methods using error bounds. We will also discuss some directions for further study.
个人介绍：
Anthony Man-Cho So received his BSE degree in Computer Science from Princeton University with minors in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Engineering and Management Systems, and German Language and Culture. He then received his MSc degree in Computer Science and his PhD degree in Computer Science with a PhD minor in Mathematics from Stanford University. Dr. So joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2007. He currently serves as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. His recent research focuses on the interplay between optimization theory and various areas of algorithm design, such as computational geometry, machine learning, signal processing, bioinformatics, and algorithmic game theory.Dr. So currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, and SIAM Journal on Optimization. He has also served on the editorial board of Mathematics of Operations Research. He received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2014 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, the 2010 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Optimization Society Optimization Prize for Young Researchers, and the 2010 CUHK Young Researcher Award. He also received the 2008 Exemplary Teaching Award and the 2011, 2013, 2015 Dean's Exemplary Teaching Award from the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK, and the 2013 Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award from CUHK.
主办单位：雷达信号处理国家重点实验室 国际合作与交流处
