Research Interests

• Inverse problems in signal processing, imaging, and statistics
• Optimization algorithm and theory
• Computational harmonic analysis
• Applied probability and statistics

Professional Experience

• 2018-Present: Assistant Professor, Department of ECE and Chronic Brain Injury Research Discovery Theme, The Ohio State University
• 2016-2018: Research Scientist II, School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2015-2016: Visiting Researcher, Department of Bio & Brain Engineering, KAIST
• 2014-2015: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2014: Visiting Lecturer, Department of ECE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2012-2014: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2004-2006: Senior Research Engineer, Mobile Multimedia Laboratory, LG Electronics
• 2002-2004: Member of Engineering Staff, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Education

• PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Current Advisee

• Seonho Kim
• Meghna Kalra
• Charles Berdanier
• Noah Levine
• Haitham Kanj

Projects

• AFRL/DEC, Efficient Inverse Phase Search (2022-2024, $125,000, 2022–2024. PI).
• NSF CCF 19-43201, CARRER: Nonlinear Models and Regularization for Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems (2020-2025, $530,877, PI)
• NSF CCF 17-18771, Model-Based Blind Demixing for Signal Processing and Machine Learning (2017-2020, $499,703, Co-PI)
• NSF IIS 14-47879, Theory and Algorithms for Processing Big Data with Sparse and Multilinear Structure (2014–2018, $949,011, Co-PI)