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Zaiwen Wen

Ph.D Candidate
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
Office: 321 S.W. Mudd Building
Phone: 212-854-4438
Email: zw2109@columbia.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests:
Convex optimization, nonlinear programming
Multigrid/Multilevel methods for infinite dimensional optimization and PDE-constrained Optimization
Robust optimization, portfolio optimization
Image processing, sparse data recovery
Software development for large scale optimization

Publications:
A Line search Multigrid Method for Large-Scale Convex Optimization (with Donald Goldfarb), IEOR, Columbia University, [link]
Line search Multigrid Methods for Large-Scale NonConvex Optimization (with Donald Goldfarb), IEOR, Columbia University, submitted [link]
A Curvilinear Search Method for the p-Harmonic Flow on Sphere (with Donald Goldfarb and Wotao Yin), IEOR, Columbia University, submitted [link] [download the code]
Lagrange-Newton Methods for Parameter Identification using Total Variation Regularization (with Donald Goldfarb), Technical Report, IEOR, Columbia University, 2006
Direct Fast method for Time-limited Signal Reconstruction (with Yanfei Wang, Zuhair Nashed, Qiyu Sun), Applied Optics, 45(13), 2006 [reprint]
A new trust region algorithm for image restoration (with Yanfei Wang), Sci. China Ser. A, 48(2), 2005 [reprint]
Least squares and their applications, M.S. Thesis, Advisor: Prof. Ya-xiang Yuan, 2004 [link (in Chinese)]

Presentations:
A Curvilinear Search Method for the p-Harmonic Flow on Sphere
SIAM Conference on Image Science, San Diego, July, 2008 [link]
Line search Multigrid Methods for Large-Scale Unconstrained Nonconvex Optimization
SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, May 2008 [link]
A Line search Multigrid Method for Large-Scale Unconstrained Convex Optimization
Second Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on
Continuous Optimization, McMaster University, Canada, August 2007

Teaching Experience:
Optimization I (Ph.D core course), Teaching Assistant, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Convex Optimization, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006
Nonlinear Programming, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2007

Industrial Experience:
Part-time Technical Employee, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, 6/2007-9/2007

Professional Service:
Reviewer for Computational Optimization and Applications
Chair for the Nonlinear Programming II Session at INFORMS 07' Annual Meeting

Honors and Awards:
Graduate Full Scholarship, Columbia University, (2004-2009)
Distinguished Presidential Prize of Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China, (2003-2004)
Special innovation fund for graduate students of Chinese Academy of Science, 8,000 Yuan, (2003-2004)

Computer Software:
C++ Codes of An Interior-Point Penalty Method for Nonlinear Programming (with A. Waechter and L. Chen), developed within the software package Ipopt, 2006

Columbia IEOR