Prof. Dr. Roman Vershynin

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsStochastics, Probability Theory,Analysis, Differential Equations
Keywordsrandom matrices, geometric functional analysis, compressed sensing, high dimensional probability , convex geometry

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityIrvine
InstitutionUniversity of California, Irvine
InstituteDepartment of Mathematics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Olga HoltzInstitut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2014

Programme(s)

2013Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Roman Vershynin is an internationally recognized expert in the field of functional analysis and probability theory and a champion of compressive sensing. Compressive sensing is a novel paradigm in signal processing, whereby one seeks to minimize the number of measurements to be taken from signals while still retaining the information necessary to represent them well, thereby efficiently solving a host of problems of applied mathematics, physics, and other disciplines. Furthermore, Professor Vershynin is a world authority on high-dimensional probability, concentration of measure, convexity, entropy, and frame theory. His fundamental results demonstrated the "unreasonable effectiveness" of random matrices and other randomized constructions in compressive sensing. In Germany, he plans to investigate randomization and de-randomization in compressive sensing, linear algebra, and frame theory.