Welcome!
I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon since July 2017.
Prior to Amazon, I was a postdoc in applied mathematics at UCLA, working with Prof. Andrea Bertozzi.
My research area is numerical methods for large-scale machine learning.
I obtained my PhD degree in Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Haesun Park. My thesis topic is nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) for clustering.
Previously, I obtained my Bachelor degree in computer science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. I worked with Prof. Min Zhang and Dr. Tao Qin on learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval.
Selected Publications
Da Kuang, Zuoqiang Shi, Stanley Osher, and Andrea Bertozzi, A harmonic extension approach for collaborative ranking, Proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Nonlinear Theoryand Its Applications, 2017. [pdf] [arXiv version]
Wei Zhu, Victoria Chayes, Alexandre Tiard, Stephanie Sanchez, Devin Dahlberg, Andrea Bertozzi, Stanley Osher, Dominique Zosso, and Da Kuang. Unsupervised classification in hyperspectral imagery with nonlocal total variation and primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(5):2786-2798, 2017. [arXiv] [link]
Da Kuang, Alex Gittens, and Raffay Hamid, Hardware compliant approximate image codes, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '15), pp. 924-932, Boston, MA, 2015. [pdf]
Da Kuang, Jaegul Choo, and Haesun Park, Nonnegative matrix factorization for interactive topic modeling and document clustering (book chapter), in Partitional Clustering Algorithms, Springer, 2015. [pdf] [link]
Nicolas Gillis, Da Kuang, and Haesun Park, Hierarchical clustering of hyperspectral images using rank-two nonnegative matrix factorization, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(4):2066-2078, 2015. [arXiv] [link]
Da Kuang, Sangwoon Yun, and Haesun Park, SymNMF: Nonnegative low-rank approximation of a similarity matrix for graph clustering, Journal of Global Optimization, 62(3):545-574, 2015. [pdf] [link]
Da Kuang and Haesun Park, Fast rank-2 nonnegative matrix factorization for hierarchical document clustering, Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge, Discovery, and Data Mining (KDD '13), pp. 739-747, Chicago, IL, 2013. [pdf] [Matlab code] [C++ code]
Da Kuang, Chris Ding, and Haesun Park, Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization for graph clustering, Proceedings of 2012 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM '12), pp. 106-117, Anaheim, CA, 2012. [pdf] [Matlab code]
Min Zhang, Da Kuang, Guichun Hua, Yiqun Liu, and Shaoping Ma, Is learning to rank effective for web search?, SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval, Boston, MA, 2009. [pdf]
Preprints
Da Kuang, Jeffrey Brantingham, and Andrea Bertozzi, Crime topic modeling. [arXiv]
Da Kuang, Alex Gittens, and Raffay Hamid, piCholesky: Polynomial interpolation of multiple Cholesky factors for efficient approximate cross-validation. [arXiv]
Teaching
Winter 2017: (UCLA)
MATH 191 - Numerical Linear Algebra for Data Analysis
Fall 2016: (UCLA)
MATH 151B - Applied Numerical Methods (II)
Summer 2016: (Tsinghua)
Numerical Methods in Machine Learning
Spring 2016: (UCLA)
MATH 285J - Graduate Seminar: Machine Learning
Winter 2016: (UCLA)
MATH 191 - Numerical Linear Algebra for Data Analysis
Fall 2015: (UCLA)
MATH 151A - Applied Numerical Methods (I)
Fall 2014: (Georgia Tech)
CSE 6040 - Computing for Data Analysis: Methods and Tools