R. Chan's CV

Raymond Hon-fu Chan
Curriculum Vitae

Contents

Address, Phone Numbers etc.

Address: Room 201, Lady Shaw Building, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Telephone: Office: (852) 2609-7970, Facsimile: (852) 2603-5154
E-mail: rchanmath.cuhk.edu.hk: click to email me
World-wide Web: http://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/~rchan
Fields of Interest: Numerical linear algebra, numerical partial differential equations, numerical integral equations, iterative Toeplitz solvers, image processing, queueing network, option pricing, bioinformatics

Educational Background


1976-1980 B.Sc., First Class Honours, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Major: Mathematics, Minor: Computer Science.
1981-1985 M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Ph.D. advisor: Professor Olof. B. Widlund

Working Experience


8/1980-7/1981 Full-time Instructor, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9/1985-8/1987 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (On leave from 9/1986-8/1987)
9/1986-12/1992 Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong (with tenure)
9/1989-6/1996 Part-time Lecturer, External B. Sc. (Economic) Program, London University
9/1990-12/1992 Part-time Lecturer, External Master of Commerce Program, University of New South Wales
1/1993-9/1993 Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
9/1993-12/1995 Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1/1996-9/1998 Professor II, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9/1996-8/1998 Associate Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10/1998-9/2005 Professor I, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11/2004-10/2009 Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10/2005- Professor of Mathematics (equivalent to Chair Professor), Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Honors and Awards


1977-1980 Dean's List, Chung Chi College
1978-1979 William T. May Memorial Scholarship
1980 Chiap Hua Cheng Foundation Scholarship
1981-1985 Graduate Research Assistantship from New York University
1982-1985 Institution Nominee to AMS membership, New York University
1989 Leslie Fox Prize at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
1990 Travelling Fellowship from the Mathematics Society of Japan
1993-1994 Biographee of Marquis Who's Who in the World, 11th Edition
1993-1995 Honourary Lecturer, University of Hong Kong
1997 Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
1998 Morningside Medal of Mathematics, Morningside Center, Beijing, China
2004- Highly-Cited Researcher in Mathematics by ISIHighlyCited.com
2004- Fellow, World Innovation Foundation

Editorship


1994- Editor, Mathematica Numerica Sinica (by Chinese Academy of Sciences)
1995-1998 Editor, Bulletin of Hong Kong Mathematical Society (by Gordon- Breach Publishers)
1997-2005 Editor, Numerical Mathematics, A Journal of Chinese Universities, English Series (by The Chinese Ministry of Education)
1997- Editor-in-Chief, Asian Journal of Mathematics (by International Press)
1998- Editor, Calcolo (by Springer)
1999-2005 Editor, International Journal of Applied Mathematics (Bulgaria)
2000-2008 Editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (by SIAM) (served for maximum 3 terms)
2002-2006 Editor, International Journal of High Speed Computing (by World Scientific)
2004- Editor, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications (by Wiley Interscience)
2005- Editor, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences (by Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
2005- Editor, Computing Reviews (by ACM)
2006- Editor, Journal of Computational Mathematics (by Global Science Publishers)
2006- Editor, Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing (by Research India Publications)
2007- Editor, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (by SIAM)
2007- Editor, The Open Applied Mathematics Journal (by Bentham)
2008- Editor, Advances in Numerical Analysis (by Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
2009- Editor, Advances in Computational Mathematics (by Springer)
2010- Editor, Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition (by The Chinese Ministry of Education)

Professional Activities


1994-1997 Member, Steering Committee of the Asian High Performance Computing Conference
1994-1998 Member, Committee of the Computational Mathematics Society of the Chinese Mathematical Society
1995-1996 Vice-President, Hong Kong Mathematical Society
1996-1998 External Examiner, Course on Pascal Programming and Symbolic Software, Hong Kong Open University
1997-2000 External Examiner, M.Sc. Degree in Scientific Computing, Hong Kong Baptist University
1997- Member, Academic Committee of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Image Processing Techniques of Guangdong, Shantou University
2000-2002 Member, Departmental Advisory Committee, City University of Hong Kong
2000- Member, Committee of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2000-2002 Council Member, Foundations of Computational Mathematics
2000-2006 Vice-President, East Asia Section of SIAM
2000-2005 Member, Physical Sciences Panel, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
2001-2004 Member, SIAM's Master Program Committee
2002 Adjudicating Committee Member, Mathematics and Mechanics Panel, China National Natural Science Award
2002- External Member, Joint Research Institute for Applied Mathematics, Peking University and Hong Kong Baptist University
2005- Oversea Consulting Expert, High Performance Scientific Computation Research Project (973 Project)
2005- Nominator for the 2006 and 2010 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (Mathematical Sciences)
2007- Adjudicating Committee Member, Feng Kang Prize
2007- Scientific Board Member, Ph.D. program in "Mathematics of Computing", University of Insubria, Como, Italy.
2007- Nominator for the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Japan Prizes (Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
2010 Chief Judge, Singapore International Mathematics Challenge

Research Grants


As Principal Investigator:

As Co-Investigator:

Reviewer for Journals and Publishers


  1. AMS Contemporary Mathematics Series
  2. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis
  3. Applied Mathematics Letters
  4. Applied Numerical Mathematics
  5. Bentham E-book proposal
  6. BIT
  7. Computational and Applied Mathematics
  8. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  9. Computers and Mathematics with Applications
  10. Digital Signal Processing
  11. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B
  12. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
  13. Electronic Transaction on Numerical Analysis
  14. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  15. IEE Proceedings Vision, Image & Signal Processing
  16. IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  17. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  18. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  19. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I
  20. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  21. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  22. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  23. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  24. IET Image Processing
  25. IET System Biology
  26. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
  27. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  28. International Journal of Computer Vision
  29. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
  30. International Press Book Proposal
  31. Inverse Problems
  32. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
  33. Journal of Approximation Theory
  34. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  35. Journal of Computational Mathematics
  36. Journal of Electronic Imaging
  37. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  38. Journal on Numerical Methods and Computer Applications
  39. Journal of Scientific Computing
  40. Linear Algebra and Its Applications;
  41. Linear and Multilinear Algebra
  42. Mathematica Numerica Sinica
  43. Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing
  44. Mathematical Problems in Engineering
  45. Mathematical Reviews
  46. Mathematics of Computation
  47. Methods and Applications of Analysis
  48. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
  49. Numerical Algorithms
  50. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
  51. Numerische Mathematik
  52. Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly
  53. Science in China
  54. SIAM Book Proposal
  55. SIAM Journal on Computing
  56. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  57. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  58. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing
  59. SIAM Review
  60. SIAM's Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
  61. Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics
  62. The Computer Journal
  63. The Open Applied Mathematics Journal
  64. Theoretical Computer Science

Reviewer for Funding Agencies


  1. Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
  2. Hong Kong Research Grants Council
  3. Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
  4. Swedish Research Council
  5. US National Science Foundation
  6. University Research Committees in Belgium, China, and Singapore

Invited Conference Talks


  1. 35-min Talk, Leslie Fox Prize Meeting, Cambridge, England, September, 1989.
  2. 4-hour Special Topic Lectures, Year in Scientific Computation, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, April, 1993.
  3. A 45-min Special Topic Talk and a 30-min Minisymposium Talk, SIAM Third Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Controls, Seattle, USA, August, 1993.
  4. 30-min Minisymposium Talk, Lanczos International Centenary Conference, Raleigh, USA, December, 1993.
  5. 30-min Talk, Asian High Performance Computing Conference Steering Committee Meeting, National Center for High Performance Computing, Hsinchu, ROC, February, 1994.
  6. 15-min Symposium Talk, Annual Conference of The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Diego, USA, July, 1994.
  7. 30-min Symposium Talk, SIAM Annual Conference, Charlotte, USA, October, 1995.
  8. 30-min Talk, Second Asian Mathematical Conference, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, October, 1995.
  9. 40-min Talk, Symposium on Matrix Analysis and Parallel Computing, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, March, 1996.
  10. 30-min Talk, Asian High Performance Computing Conference Steering Committee Meeting, Maui High Performance Computing Center, Maui, USA, July, 1996.
  11. 1-hour Opening Talk, Workshop on Toeplitz Matrices: Structures, Algorithms and Applications, Cortona, Italy, September, 1996.
  12. 1-hour Talk, Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, Curitiba, Brazil, January, 1997.
  13. 35-min Talk, Meeting on Numerical Linear Algebra and Scientific Computing, Oberwolfach, Germany, April, 1997.
  14. 2-hour Short Course, International Linear Algebra Society Workshop on Fast Algorithms for Control, Signals and Image Processing, Winnipeg, Canada, June, 1997.
  15. 35-min Talk, Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, Qingdao, China, October, 1997.
  16. 40-min Talk, Feng Kang Prize Ceremony, Beijing, China, November, 1997.
  17. 25-min Talk, Olof Widlund 60th Birthday Conference, New York, USA, January, 1998.
  18. 30-min Talk, Canadian Applied Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, May, 1998.
  19. 40-min Talk, Workshop on State of the Art in Finite Element Method - Theory, Algorithm and Applications, Hong Kong, China, July, 1998.
  20. 45-min Talk, Biannual China-Japan Numerical Analysis Meeting, Chiba, Japan, August, 1998.
  21. 1-hour Talk, Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications, Hong Kong, China, December, 1998.
  22. 45-min Talk, The First International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, China, December, 1998.
  23. 25-min Talk, Robert Plemmons 60th Birthday Meeting, Winston-Salem, USA, January, 1999.
  24. 40-min Talk, International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrix Problems in Industrial Applications, Minneapolis, USA, June, 1999.
  25. 35-min Talk, International Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computing for Young Chinese Scientistsi, Beijing, China, July, 1999.
  26. 30-min Symposium Talk, Biennial Conference in Scientific Computing and Differential Equations, Fraser Island, Australia, August, 1999.
  27. 1-hour Talk, Complexity of Equation Solving and Algebra, Hong Kong, China, October, 1999.
  28. 1-hour Talk, Workshop on Wavelets and Information Processing, Singapore, December, 1999.
  29. 40-min Talk, Second China-Sweden Workshop on Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong, China, January, 2000.
  30. 45-min Key Lecture, Second Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applications, Rousse, Bulgaria, June, 2000.
  31. 45-min Talk, International Conference on Scientific Computing in memory of Feng Kang 80th birthday, Beijing, China, August, 2000.
  32. 30-min Talk, Structured Matrix Computations: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications, Cortona, Italy, September, 2000.
  33. 45-min Talk, Workshop on Mathematics in Image Processing, Hong Kong, China, December, 2000.
  34. 20-min Talk, 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, Hong Kong, China, May, 2001.
  35. 30-min Talk, Minisymposium Talk, Applied Inverse Problems: Theoretical and Computational Aspects, Montecatini Terme, Italy, June, 2001.
  36. 50-min Talk, 2001 AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference, Fast Algorithms in Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, South Hadley, USA, August, 2001.
  37. 50-min Talk, Workshop on Numerical Methods for Evolutionary Problems, Peschici, Italy, September, 2001.
  38. 45-min Talk, International Conference on Matrix Theory and its Applications, Shanghai, China, August, 2002.
  39. 4-hour Talk on Iterative Methods for Toeplitz Systems and Image Processing Problems, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy, December, 2002.
  40. 30-min Talk, Workshop Dedicated to the 70th Birthday of Zhong-ci Shi, Beijing, China, December, 2003.
  41. 1-hour Talk, Workshop on Mathematics in Image Processing, Singapore, December, 2003.
  42. 1-hour Plenary Talk, International Conference on Numerical Methods in Imaging Science and Information Processing, Singapore, December, 2003.
  43. 30-min Talk, International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications, a Conference Dedicated to the 60th Birthday of Roderick S. C. Wong, Hong Kong, China, May, 2004.
  44. 30-min Talk, International Conference on Numerical and Applied PDEs, Changchun, China, June, 2004.
  45. 30-min Talk, Structured Numerical Linear Algebra Problems: Algorithms and Applications, Cortona, Italy, September, 2004.
  46. 30-min Opening Talk, Applied Numerical Linear Algebra Workshop, Shanghai, China, November 26-29, 2004.
  47. 30-min Talk, International Workshop on Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Hong Kong, China December 16, 2004.
  48. 30-min Talk, Conference on Image Processing and Computer Vision, Hangzhou, China, December 20-24, 2004.
  49. 30-min Talk, Symposium on the Development of Numerical Linear Algebra in China, Hangzhou, China, May 8-10, 2005.
  50. 30-min Talk, International Conference on Matrix Methods and Operator Equations, Moscow, Russia, June 20-25, 2005.
  51. 25-min Minisymposium Talk, Algorithms for Approximation V, Chester, UK, July 18-23, 2005.
  52. 50-min Plenary Talk, International Conference on PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems, Oslo, Norway, August 8-12, 2005.
  53. 45-min Talk, International Conference on Superresolution Imaging, Hong Kong, China, August 29-31, 2005.
  54. 35-min Opening Talk, Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra and High Performance Scientific Computing, Beijing, China, November 4-6, 2005.
  55. 30-min Talk, Fifth International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications, Banff, Canada, May 19-22, 2006.
  56. 2-hour Lecture Course, China/France Summer School and Workshop on Advanced Mathematical Methods for Multi-Channel Image Processing, Beijing, China, July 3-8, 2006.
  57. 30-min Talk, Internatioanl Workshop on Scientific Computing, A Workshop Dedicated to the 70th Birthday of Qun Lin, Beijing, China, July 15-16, 2006.
  58. 50-min Keynote Talk, International Symposium on Information and Computational Science, Dalian, China, August 15-18, 2006.
  59. 50-min Keynote Talk, Workshop on Scientific Computation and Numerical Computation for Interdisciplinary Mission, The National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea, August 24-26, 2006.
  60. 40-min Talk, Numerical Linear Algebra in Signals and Systems, Monopoli, Italy, September 11-15, 2006.
  61. 40-min Keynote Talk, The First International Conference on Numerical Algebra and Scientific Computing, Beijing, China, October 22-25, 2006.
  62. 40-min Talk, International Workshop on Scientific Computing: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Hong Kong, China, December 7-9, 2006.
  63. 40-min Talk, Workshop on Computational Matheamatics and Finance, Macau, China, December 15-16, 2006.
  64. 50-min Talk, International Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control, Kharagpur, India, January 9-11, 2007.
  65. 45-min Talk, Berkeley Lab Scientific Computing Workshop, Berkeley, USA, March 28, 2007.
  66. 1-hour Plenary Talk, Third International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis, Shanghai, China, June 18-22, 2007.
  67. 30-min Minisymposium Talk, 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Matheamatics, Zurich, Switerland, July 16-20, 2007.
  68. 40-min Talk, Conference on Wavelet Analysis and its Application, Zhuhai, China, August 20-25, 2007.
  69. 3.5-hour Lecture, Summer School on Applied Analysis, Chemnitz, Germany, September 17-21, 2007.
  70. 25-min Talk, 2007 Symposium on Bioinformatics and Applications, Hong Kong, China, October 31-November 1, 2007.
  71. 45-min Talk, the Fourth International Congress for Chinese Mathematicians, Hangzhou, China, December 17-22, 2007.
  72. 50-min Talk, Annual Meeting of The Mathematical Society of the Republic of China, Taipei, ROC, December 21-24, 2007.
  73. 40-min Talk, Mathematical and Algorithmic Challenges for Modeling and Analyzing Modern Data Sets, Hong Kong, China, April 21-25, 2008.
  74. 30-min Talk, An International Workshop on Scientific Computing: on the occasion of Professor Cui Jun-zhi's 70th birthday, Beijing, China, June 7-8, 2008.
  75. 1-hour Plenary Talk, Mathematical Imaging and Digital Media, Singapore, June 16-20, 2008.
  76. 45-min Talk, Image and Signal Processing Workshop at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference, Hong Kong, China, June 24-26, 2008.
  77. 30-min Talk, Symposium on Mathematical Methods in Bio-Data Analysis, Shanghai, China, August 15, 2008.
  78. 30-min Plenary Talk, Fast Algorithms for Scientific Computing: a symposium in honor of Olof B Widlund on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, New York, USA, September 19-20, 2008.
  79. 30-min Keynote Talk, The AMSS-PolyU Joint Research Institute Workshop on Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong, China, September 24, 2008.
  80. 1-hour Talk, Workshop on High Resolution Image Reconstruction, Taipei, Taiwan, October 24, 2008.
  81. 40-min Opening Talk, The Second International Conference on Numerical Algebra and Scientific Computing, Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2008.
  82. 25-min Talk, International Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Applications---in honour of Professor Philippe G. Ciarlet's 70th Birthday, Hong Kong, China, December 5-8, 2008.
  83. 25-min Talk, The 3rd International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong, China, December 8-13, 2008.
  84. 15-min Talk, 2009 APEC Research and Technology Program, Busan, South Korea, February 23-27, 2009.
  85. 40-min Talk, Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra and High-Performance Computing, Shanghai, China, March 6-8, 2009.
  86. 30-min Plenary Talk, The International Conference on Engineering and Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong, China, May 27-29, 2009.
  87. 1-hour Plenary Talk, Second International Conference on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Voss, Norway, June 1-5, 2009.
  88. 45-min Talk, The 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computation and The 5th East Asia SIAM Conference, Brunei, June 8-11, 2009.
  89. 40-min Talk, Asian Mathematical Conference 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 22-26, 2009.
  90. 1-hour Talk, Advanced Workshop on Trends and Developments in Linear Algebra, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, July 6-10, 2009.
  91. Two 30-min Minisymposium Talks, Inverse Problems: Computational Aspects and Emerging Applications, in Conference on Applied Inverse Problems, Vienna, Austria, July 20-24, 2009.
  92. 30-min Talk, China-Japan-Korea Trilateral Symposium on Systems and Synthetic Biology, Seoul, South Korea, August 13-15, 2009.
  93. 50-min Talk, Workshop on Computational Science, Hong Kong, China, September 17, 2009.
  94. 35-min Talk, Workshop on Approximation and Optimization on the Sphere and Other Surfaces, Hong Kong, China, October 24, 2009.
  95. 25-min Talk, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Seaside, CA, USA, October 26-29, 2009.
  96. 40-min Talk, International Conference on Sparse Representation of Multiscale Data and Images: Theory and Applications, Singapore, December 14-17, 2009.
  97. 40-min Talk, International Workshop on Computational Methods for Ill-Posed Problems, Guangzhou, China, December 18-20, 2009.
  98. Inverse Problems, Computations, and Applications, Luminy, France, May 31-June 4, 2010.
  99. International Workshop on Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing on the Occassion of Professor Feng Kang's 90th Birthday, Beijing, China, September 9-11, 2010.

Visiting Scholar/Seminar Speaker at


  1. Courant Institute, New York University, USA (July 1-31, 1986)
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (August 1-15, 1986)
  3. IBM Thomas Watson Research Center, USA (July 10-31, 1987)
  4. Stanford University, USA (August 1-31, 1987)
  5. University of Bergen, Norway (August 1-21, 1988)
  6. Peking University, China (May 5-12, 1991)
  7. Courant Institute, New York University, USA (September-December, 1991)
  8. Wake Forest University, USA (November 21-25, 1991)
  9. Argonne National Laboratory, USA (December 2-8, 1991)
  10. University of California, Los Angeles, USA (January-June, 1992)
  11. IMA, University of Minnesota, USA (January 12-17, 1992)
  12. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (April 6-11, 1993)
  13. IMA, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (April 12-16, 1993)
  14. Wake Forest University, USA (December 8-12, 1993)
  15. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (August 1-7, 1994)
  16. Wake Forest University, USA (August 8-11, 1994)
  17. Wichita State University, USA (January 18-21, 1995)
  18. University of California, Los Angeles, USA (July 5-10,1995)
  19. Wake Forest University, USA (July 12-August 10, 1995)
  20. College of Williams and Mary, USA (July 18-22, 1995)
  21. Wichita State University, USA (August 10-24, 1995)
  22. Keio University, Japan (March 10-14, 1996)
  23. National Taiwan University, ROC, (April 22-May 4, 1996)
  24. University of California, Los Angeles, USA (August 1-25, 1996)
  25. Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China (December 22-27, 1996)
  26. Technical University at Munich, Germany (April 18-21, 1997)
  27. University of California, Los Angeles, USA (July 11-August 29, 1997)
  28. University of Macau, China (October 25-28, 1997)
  29. Simon Fraser University, Canada (June 1-5, 1998)
  30. Shantou University, China (October 28-31, 1998)
  31. University of Mannheim, Germany (July 8-15, 1999)
  32. Technical University at Munich, Germany (July 22-23, 1999)
  33. University of Luebeck, Germany (July 25-31, 1999)
  34. National University of Singapore (December 8-21, 1999)
  35. Shanghai Jiao-Tong University and Shanghai University, China (December 29, 1999-January 4, 2000)
  36. University of California, Los Angeles, USA (August 19-26, 2000)
  37. University of Pisa, Italy (June 22-26, 2001)
  38. University of Florence, Italy (June 27-30, 2001)
  39. Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telcommunications, France (July 1-4, 2001)
  40. Pole Scientifique, Dasault Aviation, France (July 3, 2001)
  41. National Sun Yat-sen University, ROC (December 29, 2001-Jan 4, 2002)
  42. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (July 12-14, 2002)
  43. National University of Singapore (December 2-6, 2002)
  44. University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy (December 8-15, 2002)
  45. University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy (December 13, 2002)
  46. National University of Singapore (December 8-20, 2003)
  47. New York University, USA (August 6-10, 2004)
  48. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (August 15-19, 2004)
  49. Cornell University, USA (August 25-27, 2004)
  50. Syracuse University, USA (August 30-31, 2004)
  51. Fudan University, China (November 24-26, 2004)
  52. University of Bergen, Norway (August 14-18, 2005)
  53. University of Florence, Italy (September 7-11, 2005)
  54. University of Genova, Italy (September 15-16, 2005)
  55. South China Normal University, China (April 11-12, 2006)
  56. Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (August 22-23, 2006)
  57. Ecole Nationale Superieure de Cachan, France (September 7-10, 2006)
  58. Xiamen University, China (November 17-21, 2006)
  59. University of Florence, Italy (November 30-December 7, 2006)
  60. National University of Singapore (December 30-January 3, 2007)
  61. University of Macau, China (February 22-25, 2007)
  62. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA (March 25-April 1, 2007)
  63. University of Florence, Italy (November 30-December 9, 2007)
  64. National Center for Theoretical Sciences, ROC (January 2-6, 2008)
  65. Sun Yat-Sen University, China (March 20-24, 2008)
  66. Syracuse University, USA (May 22-31, 2008)
  67. Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France (June 30-July 30, 2008)
  68. INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France (July 5-11, 2008)
  69. Fudan University, China (August 14-16, 2008)
  70. Universita' dell'Insubria - sede di Como, Italy (May 1-9, 2009)
  71. University of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (July 10-12, 2009)
  72. University of Graz, Austria (July 12-19, 2009)
  73. University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (July 24-30, 2009)
  74. Yonsei University, South Korea (August 12, 2009)
  75. South China Normal School (November 21-22, 2009)

Conference and Symposium Organizer or Committee Member


  1. Organizing Committee Member, The First Asian Mathematical Conference, August 14-18, 1990, Hong Kong.
  2. Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Current Developments in Scientific Computation, December 20-21, 1990, Hong Kong.
  3. Organizing Committee Member, Matrix Theory Mini-Conference, June 7-8, 1991, Hong Kong.
  4. Organizing Committee Member, Mini-Conference on Scientific Computation, August 16-17, 1991, Hong Kong.
  5. Organizing Committee Member, Conference on Scientific Computation '94, March 17-19, 1994, Hong Kong.
  6. Organizing Committee Member, International Mathematics Olympiad '94, July 8-20, 1994, Hong Kong.
  7. Organizing Committee Member, International Symposium on Methods and Applications of Analysis, December 16-19, 1994, Hong Kong.
  8. Organizing Committee Member, First Asian Computational Fluid Dynamic Conference, January 17-19, 1995, Hong Kong.
  9. Organizing Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Control and Information, June 5-9, 1995, Hong Kong.
  10. Symposium Organizer and Co-Chair, SPIE Annual Conference, July 9-14, 1995, San Diego, USA.
  11. Organizing Committee and Steering Committee Member, High Performance Computing - Asia '95, September 18-22, 1995, Taipei, Taiwan.
  12. Co-Chair of Organizing Committee, Winter School on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing and Their Applications, December 14-20, 1995, Hong Kong.
  13. Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Numerical Partial Differential Equations, June 21-22, 1996, Hong Kong and July 1-7, 1996, Beijing, China.
  14. Organizing Committee Member, Joint Planning Meeting with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 23-26, 1996, Hong Kong.
  15. Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Scientific Computing '97, March 10-12, 1997, Hong Kong.
  16. Organizing Committee and Steering Committee Member, High Performance Computing - Asia '97, April 21-25, 1997, Seoul, South Korea.
  17. Organizing Committee Member, SIAM Annual Conference, July 14-18, 1997, Stanford, USA.
  18. Symposium Organizer and Co-Chair, SPIE Annual Conference, July 27-August 1, 1997, San Diego, USA.
  19. Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on State of the Art in Finite Element Method -- Theory, Algorithm and Applications, July 21-24, 1998, Hong Kong, China.
  20. Organizing Committee Member, IMS Workshop on Applied Probability, May 30-June 12, 1999, Hong Kong, China.
  21. Workshop Organizer and Co-chair, Workshop on Scientific Computing '99, June 27-30, 1999, Hong Kong, China.
  22. Organizing Committee Member, SIAM Pacific Rim Dynamical Systems Conference, August 9-13, 2000, Maui, USA.
  23. Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on Scientific Computing, August 28-30, 2000, Beijing, China.
  24. Conference Organizer, Perspectives of Mathematical Research in China for the 21st Century, May 28-30, 2001, Hong Kong, China.
  25. Minisymposium Organizer, SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control, August 13-16, 2001, Boston, USA.
  26. Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on Inverse Problem, January 9-12, 2002, Hong Kong, China.
  27. Conference Organizer, International Conference on Structured Matrices, May 29-June 2, 2002, Hong Kong, China.
  28. Conference Organizer, International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, December 12-15, 2002, Hong Kong, China.
  29. Program Committee Member, Eighth SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, July 16-19, 2003, Williamsburg, USA.
  30. Workshop Co-Chairman, Workshop on the Development of Numerical Mathematics in China, October 2-3, 2003, Hong Kong, China.
  31. Conference Co-Chair, International Conference on Numerical Methods in Imaging Science and Information Processing, December 15-19, 2003, Singapore.
  32. Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on Inverse Problems, June 16--21, 2004, Shanghai, China.
  33. International Advisory Committee Member, Seventh International Conference on High Performance Computing and Grid in Asia Pacific Region, HPCAsia2004, July 20-22, 2004, Tokyo, Japan.
  34. Conference Co-Chair, The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, December 17-22, 2004, Hong Kong, China.
  35. Minisymposium Organizer, International Conference on Matrix Methods and Operator Equations, June 20-25, 2005, Moscow, Russia.
  36. Workshop Organizer, Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra, August 28, 2005, Hong Kong, China.
  37. Conference Organizer, International Conference on Superresolution Imaging, August 29-31, 2005, Hong Kong, China.
  38. Steering Committee Member, The 8th International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia Pacific Region, November 30-December 3, 2005, Beijing, China.
  39. Conference Organizer, The 2nd International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations & The First East Asia SIAM Symposium, December 12-16, 2005, Hong Kong, China.
  40. Conference Chair, International Conference on Structured Matrices, June 8-11, 2006, Hong Kong, China.
  41. Chairman of Organizing Committee, Summer School on Numerical Linear Algebra, July 17-August 7, 2006, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, China.
  42. Conference Co-Chair, The First International Conference on Numerical Algebra and Scientific Computing, October 22-25, 2006, Beijing, China.
  43. Workshop Organizer, IMS Workshop on Scientific Computing 2006, December 20-22, 2006, Hong Kong, China.
  44. Organizing Committee Member, 14th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, July 16-20, 2007, Shanghai, China.
  45. Steering Committee Member, 2007 Symposium on Bioinformatics and Applications, October 31-November 1, 2007, Hong Kong, China.
  46. Scientific Committee Member, The 3rd East Asia SIAM Conference, November 2-5, 2007, Xiamen, China.
  47. Scientific Committee Member, The NIMS 2008 Conference and The 4th East Asia SIAM Conference, October 10-12, 2008, Daejeon, South Korea.
  48. Scientific Committee Member, International Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, October 13-17, 2008, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
  49. Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on Numerical Algebra and Scientific Computing, November 2-5, 2008, Nanjing, China.
  50. Conference Organizer, The 3rd International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, December 8-13, 2008, Hong Kong, China.
  51. Workshop Organizer, Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra and High-Performance Computing, March 6-8, 2008, Shanghai, China.
  52. Program Committee Member, Scale-Space and Variational Methods for Computer Vision, June 1-5, 2009, Voss, Norway.
  53. Program Committee Member, The 2nd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, October 17-19, 2009, Tianjin, China.
  54. Program Committee Member, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, October 26-29, 2009, Seaside, CA, USA.
  55. Organizing Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Structured Matrices and Tensors, January 19-22, 2010, Hong Kong, China.
  56. Scientific Committee Member, Inverse Problems, Computations, and Applications, May 31-June 4, 2010, Luminy, France.

My Wonderful Group of Graduate Students


Pictures from 1995 and 1996 summer outing; and Christmas/New Year party in: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, The Millennium Party, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Former Students with Thesis Titles and Current Affiliations

  • Masters of Philosophy:
    1. Michael Kwok-Po Ng (1992), Fast Iterative Methods for Solving Toeplitz and Toeplitz-like Systems. Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University (Honorable Mention, Householder Prize, 1996).
    2. Wai-Ki Ching (1994), Construction of Preconditioners for Queueing Networks. Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong, (Winner, Student Paper Competition, Copper Mountain Conference, 1998).
    3. Chiu-Kwong Wong (1994), Block Toeplitz Type Preconditioners for Elliptic Problems. Quantitative Analyst, Brown Brothers Harriman, USA (Sloan Dissertation Year Fellow, 1998)
    4. Hung-Cheong Chan (1995), Iterative Methods for Solving Toeplitz Systems Generated by Rational Functions. School Development Officer, Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research.
    5. Wing-Fai Ng (1996), Fast Algorithms for Integral Equations. IT Project Manager, ESG Direct Hong Kong Limited
    6. Hao-Min Zhou (1996), Numerical Methods for Denoising Problems and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems. Assistant Professor, Georgia Insititue of Technology, USA. (Honorable Mention, Householder Prize, 2002, NSF CAREER Awardee, 2007)
    7. Chun-Pong Cheung (1997), Fast Algorithms on Tomography. High school teacher.
    8. K.W. Mak (1997)
      9. , Parallel Computing for Image Processing Problems. High school teacher.
    9. Tat-Ming Tso (1997), Circulant Preconditioners from B-Splines and their Applications. High school principal.
    10. Wun-Cheung Tang (1998), Image Reconstruction with Multisensors. High school teacher.
    11. Chi-Fai Chan (1998), Numerical Solution of Integral Equations of the Second Kind. High school teacher.
    12. Ling-Lung Heung (2001), Option Pricing in Combination with Classical Numerical Integration Methods. Civil Engineer, Highway Department.
    13. Hau-Leung Chung (2002), The Inexact Newton-Like Method for Inverse Eigenvalue Problem and A DCT Based Watermarking Scheme for Copyright Protectino of Images. High School Teacher.
    14. Michael Chi-Yang Wong (2002), Pricing American-Style Options by Monte Carlo Method. Analyst, KGI Security.
    15. Yue-Hung Tam (2002), Numerical Methods for Solving Systems of ODEs with BVMs and Restoration of Chopped and Nodded Images. High School Teacher.
    16. Russ Kai-Tung Ling (2003), Reconstruction of High-Resolution Images from Movie Frames. High School Teacher.
    17. Chung Wa Ho (2004), Impulse Noise Removal by Median-type Noise Detectors and Edge-preserving Regularization. High School Teacher.
    18. Alfred Ka-Chun Ma (2004), Boundary Value Methods for Transient Solutions of Markovian Queueing Networks. Assistant Professor, Finance Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    19. Chen Hu (2004), A New Iterative Procedure for Removing Impulse Noise. Ph.D. Student, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France.
    20. Tim Yin-Shung Wong (2005), Fast and Robust Methods for Missing Data Recovery in Image Processing. Director, Profound Education.
    21. Jesse Ze Xi Wang (2007), The Applications of Image Processing in Biology and Relevant Data Analysis, Ph.D. Student, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.
    22. Daniel Kei Tsi Cheng (2007), A Tight Frame Algorithm in Image Inpainting, M.Sc. Student, University of Warwick.
    23. Tony Ho Fai Chan (2008), Divide-and-Conquer Neighbor-Joining Algorithm: O(N3) Neighbor-Joining on Additive Distance Matrices, Computation Scientist, Cluster Technology.

  • Doctors of Philosophy:
    1. Xiao-Qing Jin (1992), Circulant Preconditioners for Toeplitz Matrices and Their Applications in Solving Partial Differential Equations.
      Professor, University of Macau.
    2. Michael Kwok-Po Ng (1995), Some Fast Algorithms in Signal and Image Processing.
      Professor, The Hong Kong Baptist University.
      (Honorable Mention, Householder Prize, 1996).
    3. Fu-Rong Lin (1995), Fast Iterative Methods for Wiener-Hopf Equations.
      Professor, Shantou University.
    4. Hai-Wei Sun (1996), Fast Algorithms for Ill-Conditioned Toeplitz and Toeplitz-like Systems.
      Assistant Professor, University of Macau.
    5. Yong Chen (2002), Monte Carlo Method for Financial Derivatives Valuation.
      Lecturer, Shenzhen University.
    6. Zheng-Jian Bai (2004), Numerical Methods for Inverse Eigenvalue Problems.
      Professor, Xiamen University.
      (First Prize, Applied Numerical Algebra Prize, 2008)
    7. Jian-Feng Cai (2007), Image Denoising and Deblurring under Impulse Noise, and Framelet-Based Methods for Image Reconstruction.
      CAM Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.
      (Best Student Paper Award, HKRGC Postgraduate Students Conference on Computer Imaging and Vision, 2007)
    8. Yiqiu Dong (2007) (Co-supervised with Shufang Xu of Peking University), Impulse Noise Removal in Digital Images.
      Post-Doc, University of Graz, Austria.
    9. Michael Chi-yang Wong (2008), Memory Reduction Methods for Option Pricing.
      Analyst, KGI Security.
    10. Wei Wang (2009), Composition Vector Method for Phylogeny.
      Post-Doc, Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai.

  • Post-Doctorate Fellow:

    • Publication List


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    Papers in Journals

    1. Iterative Methods for Overflow Queueing Models I, Numer. Math., 51 (1987), 143-180.
    2. Iterative Methods for Overflow Queueing Models II, Numer. Math., 54 (1988), 57-78.
    3. (with G. Strang) Toeplitz Equations by Conjugate Gradient with Circulant Preconditioner, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput., 10 (1989), 104-119.
    4. The Spectrum of a Family of Circulant Preconditioned Toeplitz Systems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 26 (1989), 503-506.
    5. Circulant Preconditioners for Hermitian Toeplitz Systems, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appls., 10 (1989), 542-550.
    6. (with X.Q. Jin and M.C. Yeung) The Circulant Operator in the Banach Algebra of Matrices, Linear Algebra Appls., 149 (1991), 41-53.
    7. (with X.Q. Jin and M.C. Yeung) The Spectra of Super-Optimal Circulant Preconditioned Toeplitz Systems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 28 (1991), 871-879.
    8. Toeplitz Preconditioners for Toeplitz Systems with Nonnegative Generating Functions, IMA J. Numer. Anal., 11 (1991), 333-345.
    9. (with X.Q. Jin) Circulant and Skew-circulant Preconditioners for Skew-Hermitian Type Toeplitz Systems, BIT, 31 (1991), 632-646.
    10. (with M.C. Yeung) Circulant Preconditioners for Toeplitz Matrices with Positive Continuous Generating Functions, Math. Comp., 58 (1992), 233-240.
    11. (with T.F. Chan) Circulant Preconditioners for Elliptic Problems, J. Numer. Linear Algebra Appls., 1 (1992), 77-101.
    12. (with M.C. Yeung) Circulant Preconditioners Constructed from Kernels, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 29 (1992), 1093-1103.
    13. (with M.C. Yeung) Jackson's Theorem and Circulant Preconditioned Toeplitz Systems, J. Approx. Theory, 70 (1992), 191-205.
    14. (with X.Q. Jin) A Family of Block Preconditioners for Block Systems, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput., 13 (1992), 1218-1235.
    15. (with X.Q. Jin) Circulant Preconditioners for Second Order Hyperbolic Equations, BIT, 32 (1992), 650-664.
    16. Numerical Solutions for the Inverse Heat Problems in RN, SEA Bull. Math., 16 (1992), 97-105.
    17. (with K.P. Ng) Toeplitz Preconditioners for Hermitian Toeplitz Systems, Linear Algebra Appls., 190 (1993), 181-208.
    18. (with M.C. Yeung) Circulant Preconditioners for Complex Toeplitz Matrices, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 30 (1993), 1193-1207.
    19. (with P.P. Tang) Constrained Minimax Approximation and Optimal Preconditioners for Toeplitz Matrices, Numer. Algo., 5 (1993), 353-364.
    20. (with K.P. Ng) Fast Iterative Solvers for Toeplitz-Plus-Band Systems, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 14 (1993), 1013-1019.
    21. (with J.G. Nagy and R.J. Plemmons) FFT-Based Preconditioners for Toeplitz-Block Least Squares Problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 30 (1993), 1740-1768.
    22. (with M.C. Yeung) Circulant Preconditioners for Toeplitz Matrices with Piecewise Continuous Generating Functions, Math. Comp., 61 (1993), 701-718.
    23. (with P.P. Tang) Fast Band-Toeplitz Preconditioners for Hermitian Toeplitz Systems, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 15 (1994), 164-171.
    24. (with J.G. Nagy and R.J. Plemmons) Circulant Preconditioned Toeplitz Least Squares Iterations, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appls., 15 (1994), 80-97.
    25. (with K.P. Ng) Fast Iterative Methods for Least Squares Estimations, Numer. Algo., 6 (1994), 353-378.
    26. (with J.G. Nagy and R.J. Plemmons) Displacement Preconditioner for Toeplitz Least Squares Iterations, Elec. Trans. Numer. Anal., 2 (1994), 44-56.
    27. (with M.C. Yeung) A Note on the Besov Space B21/2, SEA Bull. Math., 19 (1995), 75-81.
    28. (with X.Q. Jin and K.P. Ng) Circulant Integral Operators as Preconditioners for Wiener-Hopf Equations, Integr. Equat. Oper. Th., 21 (1995), 12-23.
    29. (with C.K. Wong) Best Conditioned Circulant Preconditioners, Linear Algebra Appls., 218 (1995), 205-212.
    30. (with K.P. Ng and F.R. Lin) Construction of Preconditioners for Wiener-Hopf Equations by Operator Splitting, Appl. Math. Comput., 72 (1995), 77-96.
    31. (with K.P. Ng and C.K. Wong) Sine Transform Based Preconditioners for Symmetric Toeplitz Systems, Linear Algebra Appls., 232 (1996), 237-260.
    32. (with K.P. Ng and R.J. Plemmons) Generalization of Strang's Preconditioner with Applications to Toeplitz Least Squares Problems, Numer. Linear Algebra Appls., 3 (1996), 45-64.
    33. (with W.K. Ching) Toeplitz-circulant Preconditioners for Toeplitz Systems and Their Applications to Queueing Networks with Batch Arrivals, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 17 (1996), 762-772.
    34. (with F.R. Lin) Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Integral Equations of the Second Kind Defined on the Half-Line, J. Comp. Math., 14 (1996), 223-236.
    35. (with K.P. Ng) Conjugate Gradient Method for Toeplitz Systems, SIAM Review, 38 (1996), 427-482.
    36. (with W.K. Ching and C.K. Wong) Optimal Trigonometric Preconditioners for Elliptic and Queueing Problems, SEA Bull. Math., 20 (1996), 117-124.
    37. (with M.K. Ng) Scientific Applications of Iterative Toeplitz Solvers, Calcolo, 33 (1996), 249-267.
    38. (with W.K. Ching and X.Y. Zhou) Circulant Preconditioners for Markov Modulated Poisson Processes and Their Applications to Manufacturing Systems, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 18 (1997), 464-481.
    39. (with F.R. Lin and K.P. Ng) Preconditioners for Wiener-Hopf Equations with High Order Quadrature Rules, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 34 (1997), 1418-1431.
    40. (with H.C. Chan and M.K. Ng) Band Toeplitz Preconditioners for Toeplitz Systems with Rational Generating Functions, BHKMS, 1 (1997), 67-86.
    41. (with H.W. Sun and Q.S. Chang) A Note on the Convergence of the Two-Grid Method for Toeplitz Systems, Computers Math. Applic., 34 (1997), 11-18.
    42. (with C.K. Wong) Sine Transform Based Preconditioners for Elliptic Problems, Numer. Linear Algebra Applic., 4 (1997), 351-368.
    43. (with T.K. DeLillo and M.A. Horn) The Numerical Solution of the Biharmonic Equation by Conformal Mapping, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 18 (1997), 1571-1582.
    44. (with T.K. DeLillo and M.A. Horn) Superlinear Convergence Estimates for a Conjugate Gradient Method for the Biharmonic Equation, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 19 (1998), 139-147.
    45. (with Q.S. Chang and H.W. Sun) Multigrid Method for Ill-Conditioned Symmetric Toeplitz Systems, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 19 (1998), 516-529.
    46. (with F.R. Lin and W.F. Ng) Fast Dense Matrix Method for the Solution of Integral Equations of the Second Kind, Numer. Math. J. Chinese Univ. (English Ser.), 7 (1998), 105-120.
    47. (with H.W. Sun and W.F. Ng) Circulant Preconditioners for Ill-Conditioned Boundary Integral Equations from Potential Equations, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 43 (1998), 1505-1521.
    48. (with S.F. Xu and H.M. Zhou) On the Convergence Rate of a Quasi-Newton Method for Inverse Eigenvalue Problems,, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 36 (1999), 436-441.
    49. (with T.F. Chan and C.K. Wong) Cosine Transform Based Preconditioners for Total Variation Deblurring, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 8 (1999), 1472-1478.
    50. (with M.K. Ng and W.C. Tang) A Fast Algorithm for Deblurring Models with Neumann Boundary Conditions, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 21 (2000), 851-866.
    51. (with W.F. Ng and H.W. Sun) Fast Construction of Optimal Circulant Preconditioners for Matrices from Fast Dense Matrix Method, BIT, 40 (2000), 24-40.
    52. (with E.E. Tyrtyshnikov) Spectral Equivalence and Proper Clusters for Matrices from the Boundary Element Method, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 49 (2000), 1211-1224.
    53. (with W.K. Ching) Circulant Preconditioners for Stochastic Automata Networks, Numer. Math., 87 (2000), 35-57. (Dedicated to the 60th birthday of Prof. Olof Widlund.)
    54. (with M.K. Ng, T.F. Chan, and A.M. Yip) Cosine Transform Preconditioners for High Resolution Image Reconstruction, Linear Algebra Appls., 316 (2000), 89-104. (Dedicated to the 60th birthday of Prof. Robert Plemmons.)
    55. (with A.M. Yip and M.K. Ng) The Best Circulant Preconditioners for Hermitian Toeplitz Matrices, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 38 (2001), 876-896.
    56. (with D. Potts and G. Steidl) Preconditioners for Nondefinite Hermitian Toeplitz Systems, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 22 (2001), 647-665.
    57. (with D. Potts and G. Steidl) Preconditioners for Non-Hermitian Toeplitz Systems, Numer. Linear Algebra Applic., 8 (2001), 83-98.
    58. (with X.Q. Jin and M.K. Ng) Strang's Circulant Preconditioners for Systems of LMF-Based ODE Codes, IMA J. Numer. Anal., 21 (2001), 451-462.
    59. (with F.R. Lin and C.F. Chan) A Fast Solver for Fredholm Equations of the Second Kind with Weakly Singular Kernels, J. Numer. Math., 10 (2002), 13-36.
    60. (with M.K. Ng and A.M. Yip) The Best Circulant Preconditioners for Hermitian Toeplitz Systems II: The Multiple-Zero Case, Numer. Math., 92 (2002), 17-40.
    61. (with X.Q. Jin, and Y.H. Tam) Strang-Type Preconditioners for Solving Systems of ODEs by Boundary Value Methods, Electron. J. Math. Phys. Sci., 1 (2002), 14-46.
    62. (with T.F. Chan, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) Wavelet Algorithms for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 24 (2003), 1408-1432.
    63. (with T.F. Chan, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) Wavelet Deblurring Algorithms for Spatially Varying Blur from High-Resolution Image Reconstruction, Linear Algebra Appls., 366 (2003), 139-155.
    64. (with H.L. Chung, and S.F. Xu) The Inexact Newton-Like Method for Inverse Eigenvalue Problem, BIT, 43 (2003), 7-20.
    65. (with R.K. Ling) Reconstruction of High Resolution Images from Movie Frames, Numer. Math. J. Chinese Univ. (English Ser.), 12 (2003), 25-29.
    66. (with Z.-J. Bai and B. Morini) On the Convergence Rate of a Newton-Like Method for Inverse Eigenvalue and Inverse Singular Value Problems, Int. J. Appl. Math., 13 (2003), 59-69.
    67. (with W.K. Wong) On the Estimation of Cost of Capital and its Reliability, Quantitative Finance, 4 (2004), 365-372.
    68. (with C.W. Ho, and M. Nikolova) Convergence of Newton's Method for a Minimization Problem in Impulse Noise Removal, J. Comput. Math, 22 (2004), 168-177. (Decidated to the 70th birthday of Prof. Zhong-Ci Shi.)
    69. (with Z.-J. Bai) Inverse Eigenproblem for Centrosymmetric and Centroskew Matrices and Their Approximation, Theoret. Comput. Sci., 315 (2004), 309-318.
    70. (with S.D. Riemenschneider, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) Tight Frame: An Efficient Way for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 17 (2004), 91-115.
    71. (with Y. Chen and K.M. Yeung) A Memory Reduction Method in Pricing American Options, J. Statist. Comput. Simulation, 74 (2004), 501-511.
    72. (with Z.-J. Bai and B. Morini) An Inexact Cayley Transform Method For Inverse Eigenvalue Problems, Inverse Problems, 20 (2004), 1675-1689.
    73. (with S.D. Riemenschneider, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) High-Resolution Image Reconstruction With Displacement Errors: A Framelet Approach, Internat. J. Imaging Syst. Tech. 14 (2004), 91-104.
    74. (with C. Hu and M. Nikolova) An Iterative Procedure for Removing Random-Valued Impulse Noise, IEEE Signal Proc. Letters, 11 (2004), 921-924.
    75. (with S. Serra-Capizzano and C. Tablino-Possio) Two-Grid Methods for Banded Linear Systems from DCT III Algebra, Numer. Linear Algebra Applic., 12 (2005), 241-249
    76. (with K.C. Ma and C.Y. Wong) Enhanced Tilley's Bundling Algorithm Using Memory Reduction Monte Carlo Method, Calcolo, 42 (2005), 37-46.
    77. (with C.W. Ho and M. Nikolova) Salt-and-Pepper Noise Removal by Median-type Noise Detectors and Detail-preserving Regularization, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 14 (2005), 1479-1485.
    78. (with K.C. Ma and W.K. Ching) Boundary Value Methods for Solving Transient Solutions of Markovian Queueing Networks, Appl. Math. Comput., 172 (2006), 690-700.
    79. (with C.Y. Wong and K.M. Yeung) Pricing Multi-asset American-Style Options by Memory Reduction Monte Carlo Methods, Appl. Math. Comput., 179 (2006), 535-544.
    80. (with Y.Q. Dong and S.F. Xu) A Detection Statistic for Random-Valued Impulse Noise, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 16 (2007), 1112-1120.
    81. (with M. Nikolova) The Equivalence of Half-Quadratic Minimization and the Gradient Linearization Iteration, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 16 (2007), 1623-1627.
    82. (with Z.W. Shen and X. Tao) A Framelet Algorithm for Enhancing Video Stills, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 23 (2007), 153-170.
    83. (with K. Chen) Multilevel Algorithm for a Poisson Noise Removal Model with Total-Variation Regularization, Int. J. Comput. Math., 84 (2007), 1183-1198.
    84. (with J.F. Cai and C. Di Fiore), Minimization of a Detail-preserving Regularization Functional for Impulse Noise Removal, J. Math. Imaging Vision, 29 (2007), 79-91.
    85. (with W.K. Wong) Prospect and Markowitz Stochastic Dominance, Annals of Finance, 4 (2008), 105-129.
    86. (with J.F. Cai and Z.W. Shen) A Framelet-Based Image Inpainting Algorithm, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 24 (2008), 131-149.
    87. (with J.F. Cai, Z.W. Shen, and L.X. Shen) Restoration of Chopped and Nodded Images by Framelets, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 30 (2008), 1205-1227.
    88. (with K. Chen) Fast Multigrid Algorithm for a Minimization Problem in Impulse Noise Removal, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 30 (2008), 1474-1489.
    89. (with J.F. Cai and M. Nikolova) Two-Phase Approach for Deblurring Images Corrupted by Impulse Plus Gaussian Noise, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 2 (2008), 187-204.
    90. (with S.Q. Zhang, W.K. Ching, and L.Y. Wu) Construction and Control of Genetic Regulatory Networks: A Multivariate Markov Chain Approach, Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 1 (2008), 15-21.
    91. (with S. Setzer and G. Steidl) Inpainting by Flexible Haar-Wavelet Shrinkage, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 1 (2008), 273-293.
    92. (with J.F. Cai, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) Convergence Analysis of Tight Framelet Approach for Missing Data Recovery, Adv. Comput. Math., 31 (2009), 87-113.
    93. (with J.F. Cai, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) Simultaneously Inpainting in Image and Transformed Domains, Numer. Math., 112 (2009), 509-533.
    94. (with Y.W. Wen and A.M. Yip) A Fast Optimization Transfer Algorithm for Image Inpainting in Wavelet Domains, IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 18 (2009), 1467-1476.
    95. (with J.F. Cai and M. Nikolova) Fast Two-Phase Image Deblurring under Impulse Noise, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, accepted for publication.
    96. (with B. Morini and M. Porcelli) A Reduced Newton Method for Constrained Linear Least-Squares Problems, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, accepted for publication.

    Proceedings Papers and Book Chapters

    1. (with X.Q. Jin) Skew-Circulant Preconditioners for Skew-Hermitian Type Toeplitz Matrices, Proceedings to the Asian Mathematical Conference, Hong Kong, August 14-18, 1990, pp. 45-50, Eds: Li Zhong, K.P. Shum, C.C. Yang and Yang Le, World Sci. Pub., Singapore, 1992.
    2. (with J.G. Nagy and R.J. Plemmons) Preconditioned Toeplitz Least Squares Iterations, Proceedings to the Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 9-14, 1992.
    3. Iterative Methods for Queueing Networks with Irregular State-Spaces, Proceedings to the IMA Workshop on Linear Algebra, Markov Chains and Queueing Models, Minneapolis, January 13-17, 1992, pp. 89-110, Eds: C. Meyer and R. Plemmons, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
    4. (with J.G. Nagy and R.J. Plemmons) Block Circulant Preconditioners for 2-Dimensional Deconvolution, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures and Implementation III, San Diego, CA, July, 1992, pp. 60-71, Ed: F. Luk.
    5. (with Y.K. Kwok and H.C. Huang) Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation in Hong Kong, Computational Mathematics in China, Contemporary Mathematics Series, V. 163, pp. 77-92, AMS, 1994, Eds: Z.C. Shi and C.C. Yang.
    6. (with F.R. Lin) Circulant Integral Operators and Circulant Preconditioners, Proceedings to the Cornelius Lanczos International Centenary Conference, Raleigh, December, 1993, pp. 407-409, Eds: J. Brown, M. Chu, D. Ellison and R. Plemmons, SIAM, 1994.
    7. (with K.P. Ng and R.J. Plemmons) Generalization of Strang's Preconditioner with Applications to Iterative Deconvolution, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Vol. 2296, San Diego CA, July, 1994, pp. 528-539, Ed: F. Luk.
    8. (with W.K. Ching) Iterative Methods for Queueing Models with Batch Arrivals, Proceedings to the Second International Workshop on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, Raleigh, January, 1995, pp. 81-93, Ed: W. Stewart, Kluwer Academic Pub., 1995.
    9. (with T.F. Chan and H.M. Zhou) Continuation Method for Total Variation Denoising Problems, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Vol. 2563, San Diego CA, July, 1995, pp. 314-325, Ed: F. Luk.
    10. (with T.F. Chan and C.K. Wong) Cosine Transform Based Preconditioners for Total Variation Minimization Problems in Image Processing, Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra, II, V3, IMACS Series in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Proceedings of the Second IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra, Bulgaria, June, 1995, pp. 311-329, Ed: S. Margenov and P. Vassilevski.
    11. (with W.K. Ching and X.Y. Zhou) Conjugate Gradient Methods for Markov Modulated Poisson Processes, Proceedings of the Second Asian Mathematical Conference, Thailand, October, 1995, pp. 406-417, World Scientific Press, 1998.
    12. (with F.R. Lin and W.F. Ng) Fast Algorithm for Second Kind Integral Equations by Matrix Approximative Decomposition (in Chinese), Supple. J. Sun Yatsen Uni., (1996), 24-27.
    13. (with M.K. Ng) Preconditioning Toeplitz Systems with Circulant Preconditioners, Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing and Their Applications, pp. 243-270, Ed. R. Chan, T. Chan and G. Golub, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
    14. (with C.P. Cheung and H.W. Sun) Fast Algorithms for Problems on Thermal Tomography, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, V1196 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Applications, Bulgaria, June, 1996, pp. 90-97, Ed: L. Vulkov, J. Wasniewski, P. Yalamov, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
    15. (with M.K. Mak) Parallel Implementation of 2-Dimensional Toeplitz Solver on MasPar with Applications to Image Restoration, Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Asia 97, pp. 389-394, Seoul, April, 1997.
    16. (with M.K. Ng) Iterative Methods for Linear Systems with Matrix Structure, in Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, pp. 117-152, ed: T. Kailath and A. Sayed, SIAM, 1999.
    17. (with T.F. Chan and W.L. Wan) Multigrid for Differential-Convolution Problems Arising from Image Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop on Scientific Computing, pp. 58-72, Hong Kong, 97, Springer-Verlag, Ed: G. Golub, S.H. Lui, F. Luk and R. Plemmons.
    18. (with T.M. Tso and H.W. Sun) Circulant Preconditioners from B-Splines, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Vol. 3162, pp. 338-347, San Diego CA, July, 1997, Ed: F. Luk.
    19. (with F.R. Lin) Fast Iterative Methods for Wiener-Hopf Equations, Proceedings to the International Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, pp. 3-10, Qingdao, China, October, 1997
    20. (with T.F. Chan, M.K. Ng, W.C. Tang, and C.K. Wong) Preconditioned Iterative Methods for High-resolution Image Reconstruction with Multisensors, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Vol. 3461, pp. 348-357, San Diego CA, July, 1998, Ed: F. Luk.
    21. (with M.K. Ng and M.H. Yip), High-Resolution Image Reconstruction with Neumann Boundary Condition, Proceedings of the Fourth Japan-China Seminar on Numerical Mathematics pp. 11-21, Japan, August, 1998, Ed: H. Kawarada and Z. Shi.
    22. (with M.H. Yip, C.W. Leung, and M.K. Ng) Circulant Preconditioners for Ill-Conditioned Hermitian Toeplitz Matrices, Proceedings of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, December, 1998, AMS/IP Studies in Advanceed Mathematics, 20 (2001), 481-490.
    23. (with M.K. Ng and X.Q. Jin) Circulant Preconditioners for Solving Ordinary Differential Equations, Structured Matrices: Recent Advances and Applications, Advances in the Theory of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 4, pp. 157--164, Eds.: D. Bini, E. Tyrtyshnikov, and P. Yalamov. Nova Science Pub. Inc., 2001.
    24. (with W.K. Ching) A Direct Method for Stochastic Automata Networks, Proceedings of the IMS Workshop on Applied Probability, pp. 1-18, Hong Kong, June, 1999, Eds.: R. Chan, Y. Kwok, D. Yao, and Q. Zhang.
    25. (with M.K. Ng and A.M. Yip) A Survey of Preconditioners for Ill-Conditioned Toeplitz Systems, Structured Matrices in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering II, Contemporary Mathematics Series, V. 281, pp. 175-191, AMS, 2001, Ed: V. Olshevsky.
    26. (with M.K. Ng and W.C. Kwan) A Fast Algorithm for High-Resolution Color Image Reconstruction with Multisensors, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1988, pp. 615-627, Ed: L. Vulkov, J. Wasniewski, P. Yalamov, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
    27. (with T.F. Chan, L.X. Shen, and Z.W. Shen) A Wavelet Method For High-Resolution Image Reconstruction With Displacement Errors, Proceedings of the 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, pp. 24-27, Hong Kong, May, 2001.
    28. (with F.R. Lin, and K.M. Yeung) A Frequency Domain Based Watermarking Scheme with Spatial Repetition Coding, Proceedings for the 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, V. VI, pp. 35-40, Eds: N. Callaos, D. Rosario, B. Sanchez, Orlando, July, 2001.
    29. (with M. Donatelli, S. Serra-Capizzano, and C. Tablino-Possio) Application of Multigrid Techniques to Image Restoration Problems, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Vol. 4791, pp. 210-221, San Diego CA, July, 2002, Ed: F. Luk.
    30. (with R.K. Ling, and M.K. Ng) Reconstruction of High-Resolution Images from Low-Resolution Images, SPIE Electronic Imaging Newsletter, 13 (2003), p.3 and p.10.
    31. (with Z.J. Bai and X.Q. Jin) Strang-Type Preconditioners for Solving Systems of Delay Differential Equations by Boundary Value Methods, Adv. Math. Res., 3 (2003), 125-140, Ed: G. Oyibo.
    32. (with L.X. Shen and Z.W. Shen) Restoring Chopped and Nodded Images by Tight Frames, Proceedings to the SPIE Symposium on Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations, Vol. 5205, pp. 310-319, San Diego CA, August, 2003, Ed: F. Luk.
    33. (with C.W. Ho, C.Y. Leung, and M. Nikolova) Minimization of Detail-Preserving Regularization Functional by Newton's Method with Continuation, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 125-128, Genova, Italy, Sept., 2005.
    34. (with Z. Shen and T. Xia) Resolution Enhancement for Video Clips: Tight Frame Approach, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, pp. 406-410, Como, Italy, Sept. 2005.
    35. (with J.Z. Bai and F. Luk) Principal Component Analysis for Distributed Data Sets with Updating, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3756, pp. 471-483, Hong Kong, China, October, 2005, Eds: J.N. Cao, W. Nejdl, and M. Xu.
    36. (with J.F. Cai and B. Morini) Minimization of Edge-Preserving Regularization Functional by Conjugate Gradient Type Methods, Image Processing Based on Partial Differential Equations: Proceedings of the International Conference on PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems, pp. 107-120, Oslo, August, 2005. Eds: X.-C. Tai, K.-A. Lie, T.F. Chan, and S. Osher.
    37. (with S.Q. Zhang, W.K. Ching, and L.Y. Wu) A Simplified Multivariate Markov Chain Model for the Construction and Control of Genetic Regulatory, IEEE Proceedings to the 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering Networks, Shanghai, May, 2008.
    38. (with Y.Q. Dong, and Z.X. Wang) A Framelet-based Algorithm for Video Enhancement, Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Proceedings to the International Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications to Signals, Systems, and Control, Kharagpur, India, January, 2007.
    39. (with G.S. Han, Z.G. Yu, and V. Anh) Distinguishing Coding from Non-coding Sequences in a Prokaryote Complete Genome based on the Global Descriptor, Proceedings to The 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Tianjin, August 2009.
    40. (with H.F. Chan, R.W. Wang, and J.C. Wong) Maximum Entropy Method for Composition Vector Method in Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology: Techniques, Approaches and Applications. Eds. M. Elloumi and A. Zomaya. Wiley Series in Bioinformatics, 2010.

    Books, Proceedings Editor, and Journal Guest Editor

    1. Proceedings to the Conference on Scientific Computing '94, W.M. Xue, R.H. Chan, D. Ho and Y.K. Kwok (eds), 149pp., Science Press, Beijing, 1996.
    2. Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, R.H. Chan, T.F. Chan and G.H. Golub (eds), 381pp., Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1997.
    3. A Great Mathematician of the Twentieth Century, S.T. Yau and R.H. Chan (eds), 332 pp., American Mathematics Society, Providence, 1998.
    4. Studies in Advances Mathematics, Volume 26, Proceedings of the IMS Workshop on Applied Probability, R.H. Chan, Y.K. Kwok, D. Yao, and Q. Zhang (eds), 148 pp., American Mathematics Society, Providence, 2002.
    5. Special Issue: High-Resolution Image Reconstruction I and II, N.K. Bose, R.H. Chan, and M.K. Ng (eds.), International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol 14, Issues 2-3, pp. 35-145, 2004.
    6. Special Issue: Structured Matrices with Applications, R.H. Chan, W.-K. Ching, F. Luk, and M.K. Ng (eds), Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, Vol 12, Issues 3-4, pp. 87-336, 2005.
    7. Milestones in Matrix Computation--- The selected works of Gene H. Golub with commentaries, R.H. Chan, C. Greif, and D. O'Leary (eds), 584pp., Oxford University Press, 2007.
    8. An Introduction to Iterative Toeplitz Solvers, co-authored by R.H. Chan and X.Q. Jin, 111pp., SIAM, 2007.
      Download Matlab Programs in the Book
    9. Special Issue on Mathematical Imaging, R.H. Chan, T.F. Chan, and Z.W. Shen (eds.), Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Vol 23, Issue 1, Pages 1-151, 2007 and Vol 24, Issue 2, Pages 129-267, 2008.

    Collaborators


    Sincere thanks for my former students and the following friends for writing papers with me: