Email: mattohkc......................................................
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Phone: (65) 65162935

Papers

Recent talks

(Under construction) PPApack-0 -- a MATLAB software for nuclear norm minimization based on proximal-point algorithms.

NNLS-0 -- a MATLAB software for nuclear norm regularized least squares problems based on an accelerated proximal gradient method.

SDPNAL-0 -- a MATLAB software for SDP based on a semi-smooth Newton-CG augmented Lagrangian method.

SDPT3 -- a MATLAB software for semidefinite-quadratic-linear programming.

QSDP -- a MATLAB software for convex quadratic semidefinite programming.

SNLSDP -- a MATLAB software for sensor network localization.

Education

• B.Sc. (Hons) (1990), National University of Singapore
• M.Sc. (1992), Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
• Ph.D. (1996), Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University

Current interests

• Design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms, as well as applications, of semidefinite, second order cone, and linear programming; and more generally, convex programming.
• Iterative methods for large linear systems of equations.

Professional Activities

• [2007-present] Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Optimization.
• [2008-present] Area Editor (convex optimization), Mathematical Programming Computation.
• [2009] Cluster Chair (conic optimziation), The 20th International Symposium of Mathematical Programming, Chicago, USA, August 23-28, 2009.
• [2007] Program Committee, Second International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Hamilton, Canada, August 13-16, 2007.