John Wright

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Data Science Institute
Columbia University

Office: 408 Mudd Hall, in the Data Science Institute
Office hours (Summer '22): (by appointment).
Email: johnwright@ee.columbia.edu

Group Seminar (Summer '22): Thursday ~10-12, 408 Mudd

Publications [Google scholar]

Research

High-dimensional data analysis, signal processing, computer vision, optimization

Current Student Collaborators


Mariam Avagyan
Phd Student, Columbia EE


Tim Wang
PhD Student, Columbia EE


Jingkai Yan
PhD Student, Columbia EE
Wei Foundation Fellow


Shiyu Wang
MS Student, Columbia EE



Rain Wei
Undergraduate, Columbia CS


Jackie Yang
Undergraduate, Columbia EE


PhD Alumni


Sam Buchanan
PhD EE 2022
Now a Research Asst. Prof.
with TTIC


Robert Colgan
PhD Columbia CS 2022


Han-Wen Kuo
PhD Columbia EE 2021
Now with Google


Dar Gilboa
PhD Columbia NeuroBio 2020
Now a Research Scientist
with Google



Yuqian Zhang
PhD Columbia EE 2018
Now Assistant Professor
with Rutgers ECE



Qing Qu
PhD Columbia EE 2018
Now an Assistant Professor
with Michigan ECE



Tanbir Haque
PhD Columbia EE 2019
(Co-advised with Peter Kinget)



Cun Mu
PhD Columbia IEOR 2017
Coadvised with Don Goldfarb
Now with Walmart Labs



Tugce Yazicigil
PhD Columba EE 2016
Coadvised with Peter Kinget
Now an Assistant Professor
at Boston University



Bo Huang
PhD Columbia IEOR 2014
Coadvised with Don Goldfarb



Ju Sun
PhD Columbia EE 2016


Recent Undergraduate and Masters Alums


Ellie Haber
BS New York University 2022
Amazon SURE Program 2021
Now a Phd Student
at CMU



Junhui Zhang
BS Columbia APAM, 2021
Now a PhD Student
at MIT



Shijie Zhou
MS Columbia EE, 2021
Now a PhD Student
at UCLA



Xinyuan Cao
MS CU Data Science, 2021
Now a PhD Student
at Georgia Tech



Simon Yuexiang Zhai
MS Columbia EE, 2018
Now a PhD Student
at Berkeley