Joel Tropp

Joel A. Tropp
Born July 1977
Austin, Texas
Nationality United States American
Fields Applied mathematics
Institutions California Institute of Technology
Alma mater University of Texas
Doctoral advisor Inderjit S. Dhillon
Anna C. Gilbert
Known for Matching pursuit, Randomized SVD, Matrix Chernoff bound
Notable awards

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010)
Vasil A. Popov Prize (2010)

Monroe H. Martin Prize (2011)

Joel Aaron Tropp (born July 1977 in Austin, Texas) is Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on sparse approximation, numerical linear algebra, and random matrix theory.

Academic biography

Tropp studied at the University of Texas, where he completed the BS degree in Mathematics and the BA degree in Plan II Honors in 1999 and the MS and PhD degrees in Computational & Applied Mathematics in 2001 and 2004.[1] His dissertation was titled Topics in Sparse Approximation, and his advisers were Inderjit S. Dhillon and Anna C. Gilbert.[2] He taught at the University of Michigan from 2004 to 2007.[1] He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology since 2007.[3]

Research

In his early research,[4] Tropp developed performance guarantees for algorithms for sparse approximation and compressed sensing. In 2011, he published a paper[5] on randomized algorithms for computing a truncated singular value decomposition. He has also worked in random matrix theory, where he has established a family of results,[6] collectively called matrix concentration inequalities, that includes the matrix Chernoff bound.

Awards and honors

Tropp was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2008.[7] In 2010, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics,[8] and he received the Sixth Vasil A. Popov Prize in approximation theory for his work on Matching Pursuit algorithms.[4] He won the Eighth Monroe H. Martin Prize in applied mathematics in 2011 for work on sparse optimization.[9] In 2014, he was recognized as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science.[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joel A. Tropp, curriculum vitae. Retrieved August 5, 2014
  2. ↑ Joel A. Tropp at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Joel A. Tropp at the Caltech Directory
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Popov Prize, Previous Winners
  5. ↑ Halko, Nathan; Martinsson, Per-Gunnar; Tropp, Joel (2011), "Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing approximate matrix decompositions", SIAM Review 53 (2): 217–288, doi:10.1137/090771806
  6. ↑ Tropp, Joel (2012), "User-friendly tail bounds for sums of random matrices", Foundations of Computational Mathematics 12 (4): 389–434, doi:10.1007/s10208-011-9099-z
  7. ↑ "President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists", press release from the National Science Foundation
  8. ↑ Sloan Foundation, Past Fellows
  9. ↑ "Joel A. Tropp receives the Monroe H. Martin Prize", news item from the California Institute of Technology
  10. ↑ Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers

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