{"id":14957,"date":"2018-02-21T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:06:07","slug":"ece-alums-paper-awarded-second-prize-information-inference-journal-ima","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ece-alums-paper-awarded-second-prize-information-inference-journal-ima\/","title":{"rendered":"ECE alum&#8217;s paper awarded second prize by Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-559798\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nam-H-Nguyen-Photo-on-2-15-17-at-11.50-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nam-H-Nguyen-Photo-on-2-15-17-at-11.50-AM.jpg 399w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nam-H-Nguyen-Photo-on-2-15-17-at-11.50-AM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former PhD student, <a href=\"https:\/\/researcher.watson.ibm.com\/researcher\/view.php?person=us-nnguyen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nam H Nguyen<\/a>, was recently<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/imaiai\/pages\/best_paper_prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> awarded second prize<\/a> by<em> Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA <\/em>for his paper <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/imaiai\/article\/4\/3\/195\/691349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Tensor sparsification via a bound on the spectral norm of random tensors&#8221;<\/a>. The 35-page paper was co-authored by Purdue University professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.purdue.edu\/homes\/pdrineas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petros Drineas<\/a> and ECE professor <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/trac-duy-tran\/\">Trac D. Tran<\/a>.  In the paper, the researchers present a &#8220;surprisingly simple, element-wise sparsification algorithm that zeroes out all sufficiently small elements of a given tensor <strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong>, keeps all sufficiently large elements of <strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong> and retains some of the remaining elements with probabilities proportional to the square of their magnitudes. The paper also derives the first provable bound for tensor sparsification with respect to the spectral norm of the tensor <strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong>. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the award and paper<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/imaiai\/pages\/best_paper_prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-14957","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-alumni-spotlight","news_categories-awards-and-honors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ECE alum&#039;s paper awarded second prize by Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ece-alums-paper-awarded-second-prize-information-inference-journal-ima\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ECE alum&#039;s paper awarded second prize by Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA - 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