Yifei Lou

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Yifei Lou holds a joint position in the department of mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Data Science and Society. She served as a faculty member in the mathematical sciences department at the University of Texas at Dallas from 2014 to 2023, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. She received her Ph.D. in applied math from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010. After graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, followed by another postdoctoral training at the department of mathematics, University of California, Irvine from 2012-2014. Lou received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2019.

Her research lies in the intersection of computational mathematics and data sciences. Specifically, she focuses on signal/image recovery from a limited number of measurements, where “limited” refers to the fact that the amount of data that can be taken or transmitted is restricted by technical or economic constraints. In this scenario, additional information and reasonable assumptions are often required to recover useful information from the insufficient amount of data. Over the years, she has developed efficient computational tools for data-driven applications ranging from phase retrieval to hyperspectral imaging and seismic data completion by exploiting sparsity, low-rankness and tensor structures to analyze high-dimensional data.