My name is Ying Xiao, and I'm a fourth
year PhD student in the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
program at Georgia Tech. My advisor is the inimitable Santosh Vempala!
Previously, I completed my undergraduate
degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale, and I worked at
Goldman Sachs as a "strat" (quantitative analyst). Here is my resume.
Research interests: I enjoy algorithmic problems with a continuous
setting, and which have an analytic feel. In practice, that means I
deal with tensors, tensor decompositions, moment tensors, machine
learning, and problems that pertain to various signal recovery
models.
Publications
Santosh Vempala and Ying Xiao, Structure from Local Optima: Learning Subspace
Juntas via Higher Order PCA
, (submitted).
Vitaly Feldman, Elena Grigorescu, Lev Reyzin, Santosh Vempala and
Ying Xiao, Statistical Algorithms and a Lower Bound
for Planted Clique, (accepted STOC 2013).
Sara Krehbiel, Chris Peikert and Ying Xiao, Differentially Private
ICA, (submitted).
Contact Information:
ying.[chemical symbol for iron].xiao@gmail.com
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, #2120
266 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0765
Last Modified: February 27 2013