Yanting Ma

- Phone: 617-621-7556
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Research / Technical Staff
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Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2017 -
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Biography
Yanting's research interests are mainly in algorithm design and analysis for inverse problems arising in computational sensing using statistical inference and optimization techniques. Additionally, she is generally interested in applied probability and convex analysis. Her PhD research focused on algorithmic and theoretical studies of approximate message passing, as well as provably convergent optimization algorithms for nonlinear diffractive imaging. Her postdoctoral work developed principled methods for dead time compensation for single-photon detectors based on Markov chain modeling.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL presenting 13 papers and an industry talk at ICASSP 2020 Date: May 4, 2020 - May 8, 2020
Where: Virtual Barcelona
MERL Contacts: Karl Berntorp; Petros Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Niko Moritz; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, array processing, and parameter estimation. Videos for all talks are available on MERL's YouTube channel, with corresponding links in the references below.
This year again, MERL is a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the Student Job Fair; please join us to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year. Originally planned to be held in Barcelona, Spain, ICASSP has moved to a fully virtual setting due to the COVID-19 crisis, with free registration for participants not covering a paper.
- MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
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Internships with Yanting
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SP1551: Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimal Transport
The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated individuals to develop scalable optimal transport algorithms. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students with research experience in optimal transport and scalable optimal transport algorithms. Experience with GPU implementations is a plus. Publication of the results produced during our internships is expected. The duration of the internships is anticipated to be 3 months. Start date is flexible. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.
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MERL Publications
- "Two-Dimensional Non-Line-of-Sight Scene Estimation from a Single Edge Occluder", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, December 2020.BibTeX
- @article{Seidel2020dec,
- author = {Seidel, Sheila, W. and Murray-Bruce, John and Ma, Yanting and Yu, Christopher and Freeman, William, T. and Goyal, Vivek K},
- title = {Two-Dimensional Non-Line-of-Sight Scene Estimation from a Single Edge Occluder},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging},
- year = 2020,
- month = dec
- }
, - "Stochastic optimal control formalism for an open quantum system", Tech. Rep. TR2020-163, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, December 2020.BibTeX TR2020-163 PDF
- @techreport{MERL_TR2020-163,
- author = {Lin, Chungwei; Sels, Dries; Ma, Yanting; Wang, Yebin},
- title = {Stochastic optimal control formalism for an open quantum system},
- institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
- address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
- number = {TR2020-163},
- month = dec,
- year = 2020,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-163/}
- }
, - "Stochastic optimal control formalism for an open quantum system", Physical Review, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.052605, Vol. 102, pp. 052605, December 2020.BibTeX External
- @article{Lin2020dec,
- author = {Lin, Chungwei and Sels, Dries and Ma, Yanting and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {Stochastic optimal control formalism for an open quantum system},
- journal = {Physical Review},
- year = 2020,
- volume = 102,
- pages = 052605,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.102.052605},
- url = {https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.052605}
- }
, - "Multiview Sensing with Unknown Permutations: An Optimal Transport Approach", arXiv, November 2020.BibTeX
- @article{Ma2020nov,
- author = {Ma, Yanting and Boufounos, Petros T. and Mansour, Hassan and Aeron, Shuchin},
- title = {Multiview Sensing with Unknown Permutations: An Optimal Transport Approach},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2020,
- month = nov
- }
, - "Inverse Multiple Scattering With Phaseless Measurements", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053430, April 2020, pp. 1519-1523.BibTeX TR2020-041 PDF Video
- @inproceedings{Ma2020apr,
- author = {Ma, Yanting and Lodhi, Muhammad Asad and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T. and Liu, Dehong},
- title = {Inverse Multiple Scattering With Phaseless Measurements},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {1519--1523},
- month = apr,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053430},
- issn = {2379-190X},
- isbn = {978-1-5090-6631-5},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-041}
- }
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- "Two-Dimensional Non-Line-of-Sight Scene Estimation from a Single Edge Occluder", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, December 2020.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Systems and Methods of Fusing Multi-angle View HD Images Based on Epipolar Geometry and Matrix Completion"
Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Taguchi, Yuichi; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 10,212,410
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019
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Title: "Systems and Methods of Fusing Multi-angle View HD Images Based on Epipolar Geometry and Matrix Completion"