Roman Vershynin | Curriculum Vitae
Personal
- Birth: January 27, 1974, in Zaporozhye, Ukraine (F.S.U.)
- Citizenship: Ukrainian, U.S. permanent resident
- Address: Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- E-mail: romanv "at" umich "dot" edu
- Web: http://www.umich.edu/~romanv
- Phone: 734-647-5696, Fax: 734-763-0937
Research Interests
Geometric functional analysis, convex geometry and probability theory. Some of my work extends to geometric combinatorics, harmonic analysis, theoretical computer science, numerical analysis, signal processing and statistical learning theory.
Education
Employment
- 1997: Teaching Assistant,
Kharkov National University, Ukraine
- 1997-1998: Junior Visiting Professor,
Politecnic Institute of Milan, Italy
- 1998: Research Graduate Student,
Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena, Germany
- 1999-2000: Teaching Assistant and Associate Instructor,
University of Missouri-Columbia
- 2000-2001: Research Postdoctoral Fellow,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 2001-2003: PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow,
Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences and University of Alberta,
Canada
- 2002: Visiting Fellow, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia
- 2003-2006: Assistant Professor,
University of California, Davis
- 2006: Visiting Professor,
University of Marne-la-Vallee, France
- 2006-2008: Associate Professor,
University of California, Davis
- 2008-: Professor,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Awards and Grants
- 1989: First Prize in Applied Mathematics and First Prize in Physics,
National Conference in Science for High School Students
- 1990: First Prize in Physics,
National Conference in Science for High School Students
- 1997-1998: CNR Research Fellowship.
Awarded by the National Research Council of Italy
- 1999-2000: Lee and Cozette McFarlan Doctorate Fellowship.
Awarded by the University of Missouri-Columbia
- 2001-2002: PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Awarded by the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences
- 2003-2004: New Faculty Research Grant.
Awarded by University of California, Davis
- 2004: Oberwolfach Research in Pairs Grant.
Awarded by Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
- 2004-2007: NSF Grant DMS 0401032
"Probabilistic and combinatorial approach to geometric functional analysis"
- 2004: Miller Visitor Fellowship.
Awarded by University of Missori-Columbia
- 2005-2009:
Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2007-2010:
NSF Focused Research Group Grant
DMS 0652617, 0918623 "FRG: Fourier analytic and probabilistic methods in geometric
functional analysis and convexity"
Selected Talks
- 2003: Conference on Geometric Functional Analysis, Kiel, Germany (Plenary)
- 2004: Phenomena in Large Dimensions,
Vancouver, Canada (Invited)
- 2004:
Workshop on Geometry of Banach spaces,
Oberwolfach, Germany (Invited)
- 2004: IV International Conference in honor of Hans Han, Chernivci, Ukraine (Plenary)
- 2004: Mathematical
Foundations of Learning Theory, Barcelona, Spain (Invited)
- 2004: Convex
Geometric Analysis, BIRS, Canada (Invited)
- 2004: Ehrhart-Quasipolynomials:
Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany (Invited)
- 2005: Southeast Geometry Conference,
Columbia, SC (Invited)
- 2005: Sparse Representation
in Redundant Systems, CSCAM,College Park, MD (Invited)
- 2005: FOCS 2005:
46th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2006: Convex
Sets and their Applications, BIRS, Canada (Invited)
- 2006: CISS 2006:
40th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton (Invited)
- 2006: Banach spaces
and their applications in analysis, Oxford, OH (Plenary)
- 2006: Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
and Applications, Paris, France (Plenary)
- 2006: RANDOM 2006:
10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006: Theory
of Computation Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Techlology, Atlanta
- 2006: FOCS 2006:
47th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Berkeley, CA
- 2007: Short Course on
Sparse Representations and High Dimensional Geometry, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA (Invited)
- 2007: Trends in
Harmonic Analysis, Strobl, Austria (Plenary)
- 2007: Phenomena in High Dimensions,
Samos, Greece (Plenary)
- 2007: AMS Von Neumann Symposium,
Snowbird, UT (Invited)
- 2007: Fourier
analytic methods in convex geometry, AIM, Palo Alto, CA (Invited)
- 2007: Algorithmic
convex geometry, AIM, Palo Alto, CA (Invited)
- 2007: Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- 2007: Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Techlology, Atlanta
- 2008: Special Mathematics Seminar, MIT
- 2008: Colloquium, Vanderbilt University
- 2009: Spring
Meeting of the Western Section of AMS, San Francisco (Plenary address)
- 2009: Probability
in Asymptotic Geometry, Texas A&M University (Lecture series)
- 2009: Southeastern Analysis Meeting, Georgia Institute of Technology (Plenary)
- 2010: Sparsity and Computation, Hausdorff Center, University of Bonn, Germany (Plenary)
- 2010: International Congress of Mathematicians,
Hyderabad, India (Invited)
Events Organized
Refereeing
- Journals:
- Acta Applicanda Mathematicae,
Annals of Applied Probability,
Annals of Probability,
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis,
Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,
Discrete and Computational Geometry,
Foundations of Computational Mathematics,
FOCS (Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science),
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
Israel Journal of Mathematics,
Journal of Approximation Theory,
Journal of Inequalities and Applications,
Journal of the AMS,
Lecture Notes in Mathematics (GAFA Seminar Notes),
Lecture Notes/Monograph Series of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
Mathematics of Operations Research,
Proceedings of the AMS,
Random Structures and Algorithms,
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics,
SIAM Journal of Computing,
Studia Mathematica
- Granting agencies:
- France-Berkeley Fund, ISF (Israel Science Foundation), McArthur Foundation, NSF
Ph.D. students
- 2005-2009: Deanna Needell.
Thesis: Iterative sparse recovery of signals. 2009-: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
- 2006-: Yuting Yang.
Thesis: Topics in geometric functional analysis
University Service
- 2003-04
- Undergraduate Program Committee
- Advisor of Alexander Sheynis (undergraduate)
under the VIGRE REU program
- Advisor of Rene Villegas and Katherine Stalder (undergraduate)
uder Davis Honors Contract
- 2004-05
- 2005-06
- Ph.D. advisor of Deanna Needell
- Graduate Program Committee
- Colloquium Chair (Fall)
- Chair of the Syllabus Committee on Real Analysis (MATH 27)
- 2006-07
- Ph.D. advisor ofDeanna Needell and Yuting Yang
- Graduate Program Committee
- Colloquium Chair (Spring)
- Chair of the Postdoctoral Search Committee
- UGC Preparatory Education Committee
- Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committees:
Deanna Needell, David Haws, Jaideep Mulherkar, Hillel Raz
- 2007-08
- Ph.D. advisor of Deanna Needell and Yuting Yang
- Graduate Program Committee
- UGC Preparatory Education Committee
- Qualifying Examination Committees:
Matt Herman (Chair), Ren Wei, Eddie Kim, Kequin Liu, Yuting Yang, David Sivakoff (Chair)
- Teaching Evaluation Committee on a faculty promotion
- 2008-09
- Ph.D. advisor of Deanna Needell and Yuting Yang
- Honors Committee
- QR Exam Committee - Applied
- Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee
- 2009-10