Working Papers

• A Dual Perspective on Separable Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Optimal Downlink Beamforming (with D. P. Palomar), Manuscript, October 2009. (.pdf file)
• A Doppler Robust Max-Min Approach to Radar Code Design (with A. De Maio and M. Piezzo), Manuscript, December 2009. (.pdf file)
  

Selected Journal Papers

• Approximation Algorithms for Indefinite Complex Quadratic Maximization Problems (with S. Zhang), accepted by Science in China Series A: Mathematics , November 2009. (.pdf file)
• New Results on Hermitian Matrix Rank-One Decomposition (with W. Ai and S. Zhang), accepted by Mathematical Programming, January 2008. (.pdf file)
• Code Design for Radar STAP via Optimization Theory (with A. De Maio, S. De Nicola, D. P. Palomar, S. Zhang and A. Farina), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 679 - 694, February 2010. (.pdf file)
• Rank-Constrained Separable Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Optimal Beamforming (with D. P. Palomar), accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 664 - 678, February 2010. (pdf file)
• Design of Phase Codes for Radar Performance Optimization with a Similarity Constraint (with A. De Maio, S. De Nicola, Z.-Q. Luo and S. Zhang), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 2, 610-621, February 2009. (.pdf file)
• Adaptive Detection and Steering Estimation in the Presence of Useful Signal and Interference Mismatches (with A. De Maio, S. De Nicola, S. Zhang and A. Farina), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 2, 436 - 450, February 2009. (.pdf file)
• On the Low Rank Solutions for Linear Matrix Inequalities (with W. Ai and S. Zhang), Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 33, 965 - 975, Nov. 2008. (.pdf file)
• Code Design to Optimize Radar Detection Performance under Accuracy and Similarity Constraints (with A. De Maio, S. De Nicola, S. Zhang and A. Farina), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 11, 5618 - 5629, November 2008. (.pdf file)

• Complex Matrix Decomposition and Quadratic Programming (with S. Zhang), Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 32, No. 3, 758 - 768, 2007. (.pdf file)

• Complex Quadratic Optimization and Semidefinite Programming (with S. Zhang), SIAM Journal on Optimization , Vol. 16, No. 3, 871 - 890, 2006. (.pdf file)
  
• Optimality Conditions for Vector Optimisation with Set-Valued Maps, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, Vol. 66, 317 - 330, 2002.(.pdf file)
  
• Generalized Constraint Qualifications and Optimality Conditions for Set-Valued Optimization Problems, Journal of Mathematics Analysis and Applications, Vol. 265, 309 - 321, 2002. (.pdf file)
  
• A Farkas-Minkowski Type Alternative Theorem and Its Applications to Set-Valued Equilibrium Problems, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 1, 17- 24, 2002. (.pdf file)

Book Chapters

• Semidefinite Programming, Matrix Decomposition, and Radar Code Design, with A. De Maio and S. Zhang, in Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communications, Eds. Y. Eldar and D. P. Palomar, 2009. (.pdf file)

PhD Thesis

Complex quadratic optimization via semidefinite programming: Models and applications, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. (ProQuest)

Research Interests

• Optimization: Linear Programming and Conic Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Robust Optimization, Multi-Objective Programming and Generalized Convexity.
• Signal Processing, Radar and Wireless Communications.
• Financial Engineering: Multi-Stage Portfolio Selection, Pricing of Assets and Derivatives.

Teaching Experiment

• Instructor for short course "Introduction to Optimization Theory", University of Naples "Federico II", Italy (June 2009)
  
• Teaching Assistant for "Operations Research II" (Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Spring 2002)
  
• Teaching Assistant for "Operations Research I" (Fall 2004, Fall 2003)
  
• Teaching Assistant for "Engineering and Technology Management" (Spring 2004, Fall 2002)

Academic Background

• PhD in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sept. 2005
• MS in Operations Research, Chongqing University, Dec. 2000
• BS in Computation Mathematics, Chongqing University, July 1998

Recent Conference Activities

• 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 28-July 3, 2009, Seoul, Korea.
• 2008 IEEE Radar Conference, May 26-30, 2008, Rome, Italy.
• Workshop on Optimization and Signal Processing, December 19-21 , 2007, Hong Kong.
• International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 2004), December 9-11, 2004, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
• International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT I), August 2-4, 2004, RPI, Troy, New York, USA
• INFORMS Annual Meeting 2002, Nov 17-20, 2002, San Jose, USA.
• The 5th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 2001), Dec 15-17, 2001, Hong Kong.
  
• The First Sino-Japan Optimization Meeting (SJOM2000), Oct 26-28, 2000, Hong Kong.
  

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