Ian Chen / Bang-Shien Chen
about me
Hi! I am currently a master student at the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University. My research interests are mainly in optimization and robotics, and I write blogs about tools and concepts I frequently use. Feel free to check them out, and I hope you find them helpful!
download my cv / statement (Nov 2024)
portfolio
blog
Numerical methods
- Gradient descent & Newton's method
- Gauss-Newton
Machine learning
- Linear regression
- Support vector machine
Optimization
- Convex optimization preliminaries
- Homogenization for convex sets
- Linear program
- Semidefinite program
- Quadratic program
- QP closed-form
- QP to SOCP
- QCQP to SDP
Robotics
- Tutorials & useful links
- Point cloud registration
- Pose graph optimization
- Lie theory in Robotics
- Riemannian and Lie theory comparison
- Motion planning
Computer vision
- Uncertainty in Computer vision
Math equations may overflow in smaller screen sizes (e.g., smart phone).
projects
To be done...
research
Publication
Awards
- NCTS Research Abroad Program A research abroad program financially supported by the Mathematics Division of National Center of Theoretical Sciences, worked with Prof. Shuzhong Zhang at the University of Minnesota. (Jun 2024 - Aug 2024)
- Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop, Presentation Award Out of 40 speakers in the 14th Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop for Young Scholars in Applied Mathematics. (Feb 2024)
- IBM Qiskit Hackathon Taiwan, 1st prize Out of 12 teams in the final round of the Quantum Computing Hackathon. (Jul 2022)
- Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop, Presentation Award Out of 42 speakers in the 12th Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop for Young Scholars in Applied Mathematics. (Feb 2024)
Presentations
- Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization 2024, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan, November 25-26, 2024.
- 2024 NCTS Student Workshop on Scientific Computing, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 6, 2024.
- 14th Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop for Young Scholars in Applied Mathematics, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, Feb 27-29, 2024.
- Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization 2023, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Jul 24-25, 2023.
- 2022 Summer school on Quantum Computer, Asia University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 21 - Sep 24, 2022.
- Seminar on Quantum Theory and Computation, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Apr 26 - May 24, 2022.
- 12th Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop for Young Scholars in Applied Mathematics, (virtual), Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2022.