Eric Chi

  • Program Years: 2008-2011
  • Academic Institution: Rice University
  • Practicum(s):
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2009)
    Sandia National Laboratories, California (2010)
  • Degree(s):
    PhD Statistics, Rice University, 2011 ;
    M.A. Statistics, Rice University, 2010;
    M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2002;
    B.A. Physics, Rice University, 1999
  • Field of Study: Bioinformatics/Statistics
  • Academic Advisor: David Scott
  • Status: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Personal URL: http://ericchi.com/
  • Research Area: Statistics and Machine Learning

Publications:

K. Lange, E.C. Chi and H. Zhou, A Brief Survey of Modern Optimization for Statisticians, International Statistical Review, In press.

E.C. Chi and K. Lange, A Look at the Generalized Heron Problem through the Lens of Majorization-Minimization, The American Mathematical Monthly, In press.

E.C. Chi and D.W. Scott, Robust Parametric Classification and Variable Selection by a Minimum Distance Criterion, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, In press.

E.C. Chi, H. Zhou, G.K. Chen, D. Ortega Del Vecchyo, and K. Lange, Genotype Imputation via Matrix Completion, Genome Research 23:509-518, 2013.

E.C. Chi and T.G. Kolda, On Tensors, Sparsity, and Nonnegative Factorizations, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 33(4):1272-1299, 2012.

E.C. Chi, S.B. Mende, M-C. Fok, and G.D. Reeves, Proton auroral intensifications and injections at synchronous altitude, Geophysical Research Letters 33:6104, 2006.

R. Gupta, E. Chi, and J. Walrand, Different Algorithms for Normal and Protection Paths, Journal of Network and Systems Management 13(1):13-33, 2005.

E. Chi, M. Fu, and J. Walrand, Proactive Resource Provisioning, Computer Communications 27(12):1174-1182, 2004.

R. Gupta, E. Chi, and J. Walrand, Sharing Normal Bandwidth During a Failure, Proceedings Seventh INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, March 2004.

R. Gupta, E. Chi, and J. Walrand, Different Algorithms for Normal and Protection Paths, Proceedings DRCN 2003, Banff, Canada, October 2003.

E. Chi, M. Fu, and J. Walrand, Proactive Resource Provisioning for Voice over IP, Proceedings SPECTS 2003, Montreal, Canada, July 2003.

S. Thomsen, B. Baldwin, E. Chi, J. Ellard, J.A. Schwartz, Histopathology of laser skin resurfacing, Proceedings of SPIE Vol 2970: May 1997

Awards:

R25 Cancer Prevention Fellowship, 2008
Jack C. Pollard Graduate Fellowship in Engineering, 2007
UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001
Bonner Book Award Recipient 1997, 1998, 1999
Phi Beta Kappa, 1999
Sigma Pi Sigma, 1998
Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship, 1997