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Heng Lian Ph.D. Candidate Division of Applied Mathematics Brown Univeristy Office Phone : (401)863-1992 email: Heng_Lian@brown.edu		Computational Biology Image Processing and Computer Vision Asymptotic Statistics Computational Linguistics
I am currently a student in the Division of Applied Mathemtics at Brown University, expecting to graduate in May 2007. My advisors are Donald McClure and Charles Lawrence. I have broad interests in all areas of statistics, in particular asymptotic theory, application in biology and statistical imaging.
Curriculum Vita Heng Lian Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Office: (401)863-1992 Home: (401)243-3297 Email: Heng_Lian@brown.edu Education Brown University, Providence, RI Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, expected 2007 M.S. Computer Science, 2005 M.A. Economics, 2005 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China B.S. Mathematics, 2000 B.S. Computer Science, 2000 Thesis Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Some Topics on Statistical Theory and Applications (defended on April 5th, 2007) (pdf) M.S. Computer Science, Chinese Lauguage Parsing with Maximum-Entropy-Inspired Parser (pdf) Manuscripts and Preprints Heng Lian, Variational local structure estimation for image superresolution, Accepted for lecture presentation at the International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, 2006 (pdf) Heng Lian, Consistency of Bayesian estimation of a step function, Statistics & Probability Letters, 2007, 77(1), 19-24 Heng Lian, On the consistency of Bayesian function approximation using step functions. Neural Computation, In Press (pdf) Heng Lian, Cross validation for comparing multiple density estimation procedures. (pdf) Heng Lian, On rates of convergence for posterior distributions under misspecification. (pdf) Heng Lian, Nonlinear functional models for functional responses in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. (pdf) Refereed Conference Abstracts Heng Lian, William Noble, William Thompson, John Stamatoyannopoulos, and Charles Lawrence, Beyond HMMs: a Hierarchical Model for Inhomogeneous Tiled Array Observations (pdf) Working Papers Automated mapping of large-scale chromatin structure in ENCODE, (joint with W. Thompson, R. Thurman, J. Stamatoyannopoulos, W. Noble, and C.E. Lawrence) Analysis of ChIP-chip and ChIP-PET, (joint with W.Thompson, A. Brodsky, and C.E. Lawrence) Teaching Experiences Graduate Teaching Assistant, AM33 Methods in applied mathematics I, Brown University, Fall 2002 AM34 Methods in applied mathematics II, Brown University, Spring 2003 Undergraduate math tutor, Math Resource Center, Brown University, 2003-present Awards and Honors Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, Spring 2007 Travel Award, International Conference on Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, 2006 University Fellowship, Brown University, 2001 GuoMoruo Fellowship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2000 GuangHua Scholarship, Univeristy of Science and Technology of China, 1999 BaoGang Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998 Computer Skills C++ (read and modified 10,000 lines of existing code for the master's project on parsing Chinese grammar, wrote a 5,000-line program implementing a segmentation algorithm in the area of bioinformatics) Java (wrote a mini P2P network for a class project that can process user queries and download requested files, resolve multi-user update conflicts, and automatically propagate updates submitted to one server to other servers ) Perl (used in research on bioinformatics, mainly for data document processing) Matlab (wrote image processing programs including image superresolution, image inpainting, texture synthesis) R (used in research on bioinformatics for exploratory data analysis) References Charles Lawrence, Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, (401)863-1479, charles_lawrence@brown.edu Donald McClure, Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, (401)863-1496, dem@dam.brown.edu Eugene Charniak, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, (401)863-7636, ec@cs.brown.edu

Heng Lian

Ph.D. Candidate

Division of Applied Mathematics

Brown Univeristy

Office Phone : (401)863-1992

email: Heng_Lian@brown.edu

Computational Biology

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Asymptotic Statistics

Computational Linguistics

I am currently a student in the Division of Applied Mathemtics at Brown University, expecting to graduate in May 2007. My advisors are Donald McClure and Charles Lawrence. I have broad interests in all areas of statistics, in particular asymptotic theory, application in biology and statistical imaging.

Curriculum Vita

Heng Lian

Division of Applied Mathematics

Brown University

Providence, RI 02912

Office: (401)863-1992

Home: (401)243-3297

Email: Heng_Lian@brown.edu

Education

Brown University, Providence, RI

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, expected 2007

M.S. Computer Science, 2005

M.A. Economics, 2005

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

B.S. Mathematics, 2000

B.S. Computer Science, 2000

Thesis

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Some Topics on Statistical Theory and Applications (defended on April 5th, 2007) (pdf)

M.S. Computer Science, Chinese Lauguage Parsing with Maximum-Entropy-Inspired Parser (pdf)

Manuscripts and Preprints

Heng Lian, Variational local structure estimation for image superresolution, Accepted for lecture presentation at the International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, 2006 (pdf)

Heng Lian, Consistency of Bayesian estimation of a step function, Statistics & Probability Letters, 2007, 77(1), 19-24

Heng Lian, On the consistency of Bayesian function approximation using step functions. Neural Computation, In Press (pdf)

Heng Lian, Cross validation for comparing multiple density estimation procedures. (pdf)

Heng Lian, On rates of convergence for posterior distributions under misspecification. (pdf)

Heng Lian, Nonlinear functional models for functional responses in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. (pdf)

Refereed Conference Abstracts

Heng Lian, William Noble, William Thompson, John Stamatoyannopoulos, and Charles Lawrence, Beyond HMMs: a Hierarchical Model for Inhomogeneous Tiled Array Observations (pdf)

Working Papers

Automated mapping of large-scale chromatin structure in ENCODE, (joint with W. Thompson, R. Thurman, J. Stamatoyannopoulos, W. Noble, and C.E. Lawrence)

Analysis of ChIP-chip and ChIP-PET, (joint with W.Thompson, A. Brodsky, and C.E. Lawrence)

Teaching Experiences

Graduate Teaching Assistant,

AM33 Methods in applied mathematics I, Brown University, Fall 2002

AM34 Methods in applied mathematics II, Brown University, Spring 2003

Undergraduate math tutor, Math Resource Center, Brown University, 2003-present

Awards and Honors

Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, Spring 2007

Travel Award, International Conference on Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, 2006

University Fellowship, Brown University, 2001

GuoMoruo Fellowship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2000

GuangHua Scholarship, Univeristy of Science and Technology of China, 1999

BaoGang Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998

Computer Skills

C++ (read and modified 10,000 lines of existing code for the master's project on parsing Chinese grammar, wrote a 5,000-line program implementing a segmentation algorithm in the area of bioinformatics)

Java (wrote a mini P2P network for a class project that can process user queries and download requested files, resolve multi-user update conflicts, and automatically propagate updates submitted to one server to other servers )

Perl (used in research on bioinformatics, mainly for data document processing)

Matlab (wrote image processing programs including image superresolution, image inpainting, texture synthesis)

R (used in research on bioinformatics for exploratory data analysis)

References

Charles Lawrence, Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, (401)863-1479, charles_lawrence@brown.edu

Donald McClure, Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, (401)863-1496, dem@dam.brown.edu

Eugene Charniak, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, (401)863-7636, ec@cs.brown.edu