I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, working with Prof. Jian-Feng Cai. Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering from the same university in April 2022, advised by Prof. Daniel P. Palomar.

My research interests are mainly in addressing computational problems within data science, signal processing, and machine learning by leveraging tools from optimization, statistics, and information theory. I am especially interested in the design of numerical algorithms that are scalable to large datasets and come with theoretical performance guarantees.

Jiaxi Ying
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Mathematics, HKUST
Email: jx.ying@connect.ust.hk
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News

Jan 2024: A paper is accepted in ICLR 2024.

Sep 2023: Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2023.

Aug 2023: A paper is accepted in IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

Jul 2023: Invited talk at IEEE ICICN 2023: Inferring Network Topologies: Modelling, Algorithms, and Theory.

Apr 2023: A paper is accepted in ICML 2023.

Publications

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Preprints

  • Does the \(\ell_1\)-norm Learn a Sparse Graph under Laplacian Constrained Graphical Models?
    J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, preprint. [paper]

Selected Journal and Conference Papers

  • A Fast and Provable Algorithm for Sparse Phase Retrieval
    J. Ying* with J.-F. Cai, Y. Long, and R. Wen, accepted in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. [paper]

  • Fast Projected Newton-like Method for Precision Matrix Estimation under Total Positivity
    J. Ying* with J.-F. Cai, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023. [paper]

  • Learning Large-Scale MTP\(_2\) Gaussian Graphical Models via Bridge-Block Decomposition
    X. Wang, J. Ying*, and D.P. Palomar, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023. [paper]

  • Efficient and Scalable High-Order Portfolios Design via Parametric Skew-t Distribution
    X. Wang, R. Zhou, J. Ying, and D.P. Palomar, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2023. [paper]

  • Adaptive Estimation of Graphical Models under Total Positivity
    J. Ying*, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023. [paper]

  • Learning Bipartite Graphs: Heavy Tails and Multiple Components
    J.V.M. Cardoso, J. Ying, and D.P. Palomar, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022. [paper]

  • Covariance Matrix Estimation Under Low-Rank Factor Model with Nonnegative Correlations
    R. Zhou, J. Ying*, and D.P. Palomar, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2022. [paper]

  • Tensor-Based Information Monitoring Receiver in UAV-Aided MIMO Communication Systems
    X. Han, X. Zhao, J. Ying, and F. Gao, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2022. [paper]

  • Efficient Algorithms for General Isotone Optimization
    X. Wang, J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, The Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022. [paper]

  • Minimax Estimation of Laplacian Constrained Precision Matrices
    J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2021. [paper]

  • Graphical Models for Heavy-Tailed Markets
    J.V.M. Cardoso, J. Ying, and D.P. Palomar, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. [paper]

  • Semi-Blind Receivers for UAV M-KRST Coding MIMO Systems Based on Nested Tensor Models
    X. Han, Y. Zhao and, J. Ying, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2021. [paper]

  • Nonconvex Sparse Graph Learning under Laplacian Constrained Graphical Model
    J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020. [paper]

  • A Unified Framework For Structured Graph Learning Via Spectral Constraints
    S. Kumar, J. Ying*, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2020. [paper]

  • Structured Graph Learning Via Laplacian Spectral Constraints
    S. Kumar, J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019. [paper]

  • Vandermonde Factorization of Hankel Matrix for Complex Exponential Signal Recovery - Application in Fast NMR Spectroscopy
    J. Ying, J.-F. Cai, D. Guo, G. Tang, Z. Chen, and X. Qu, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2018. [paper]

  • Hankel Matrix Nuclear Norm Regularized Tensor Completion for \(N\)-dimensional Exponential Signals
    J. Ying, H. Lu, Q. Wei, J.-F. Cai, D. Guo, J. Wu, Z. Chen, and X. Qu, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2017. [paper]

Book Chapters and Other Conference Papers

  • Nonconvex Graph Learning: Sparsity, Heavy-tails, and Clustering
    J.V.M. Cardoso, J. Ying, and D.P. Palomar, Signal Processing and Machine Learning Theory, Academic Press, 2024. [paper]

  • Network Topology Inference with Sparsity and Laplacian Constraints
    J. Ying, X. Han, R. Zhou, X. Wang, H.C. So, IEEE International Conference on Information, Communication and Networks (ICICN), 2023. [paper]

  • Estimating Normalized Graph Laplacians in Financial Markets
    J.V.M. Cardoso, J. Ying, and D.P. Palomar, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. [paper]

  • A Fast Algorithm for Graph Learning under Attractive Gaussian Markov Random Fields
    J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar), 2021. [paper]

  • Bipartite Structured Gaussian Graphical Modeling via Adjacency Spectral Priors
    S. Kumar, J. Ying, J.V.M. Cardoso, and D.P. Palomar, 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar), 2019. [paper]

  • Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Vandermonde Factorization
    X. Qu, J. Ying, J.-F. Cai, Z. Chen, 39th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2019. [paper]

Awards

  • NeurIPS Scholar Award, 2023.

  • HKUST RedBird PhD Scholarship, 2021.

  • Outstanding Master's Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2018.

  • Excellent Master Thesis in Fujian Province, 2017.

Academic Service

  • Conference review: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI.

  • Journal review: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering.