Department of Electrical Engineering
       Columbia University in the City of New York


John Wright
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University

Office: Shapiro Research Building, Room 716
Office hours: 3-5 Thursday, or by appointment
Mail:
500 W. 120th St. Room 1312
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Email: johnwright@ee.columbia.edu,  j.jnwright@gmail.com
Quick links:
    Curriculum vitae
    Publications
 Upcoming events:
    3/26-3/30       Machine Learning: Theory and Computation (IMA, Minnesota)
    4/6-4/8           Probabilistic Techniques and Algorithms (UT-Austin)
    5/20-5/22       SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (Philadelphia)
    7/28-8/2         Joint Statistical Meeting (San Diego)

Research:
I develop tools for robustly recovering low-dimensional structure from non-ideal (corrupted, incomplete) high-dimensional observations, and apply them to solve problems in computer vision and signal processing. For example, I've recently worked on sparse vector and low-rank matrix recovery, their applications in automatic face recognition, tools for data clustering and classification.

For more examples and information, please see my publications page!

Teaching:
    Seminar: Topics in High-Dimensional Data Analysis      
                    Tuesdays, 7-9 PM, location TBA

                    This is an informal reading and discussion group. Feel free to join us!		            
    Spring 2012: New course!  ELE 4835, Intro to Adaptive Signal Representations
                              Learning and Optimization for Signal Processing                  
                     Mondays and Wednesdays 9:10-10:25 AM, Mudd 633
     Fall 2011: ELE 6886, Sparse Representation and High Dimensional Geometry                  
                      Thursdays 6:40-8:50 PM, Mudd 337		        

Students:
          Ju Sun, PhD student, Columbia University
    Wei Family Foundation Fellow
          Yuqian Zhang, MS student, Columbia University