Portrait of Jianqing Jia

Jianqing Jia

Postdoctoral Researcher
Applied Math & Data Science
I am a Postdoc at the School of Data and Information Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill, where I work with Prof. Yifei Lou.

I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Syracuse University, advised by Prof. Lixin Shen. Prior to that, I obtained my M.S. in Computational Mathematics through the joint program held by the Math Dept. at Hebei Normal University and the CS Dept. at Temple University, advised by Prof. Wei Guo and Prof. Haibin Ling.

My research focuses on optimization and machine learning, particularly compressive sensing, inverse problems, computational imaging, and numerical optimization. I am especially interested in leveraging inherent low-dimensional structure in data for recovery, computation, and communication.

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Jul 2026

Together with Guohui Song and Lixin Shen, we organize a minisymposium on "Optimization and Data-Driven Methods for Inverse Problems and Imaging" at SIAM IS26.

Jul 2026

A paper on compressive sensing light-sheet microscopy is available on arXiv.

Apr 2026

A paper on high-speed volumetric microscopy is available on bioRxiv.

Apr 2026

Selected as a Young Researcher for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

Apr 2026

Together with Yifei Lou, we organize a minisymposium on "Sparsity-Driven Methods for Scientific Computing and Inverse Problems" at SIAM AN26.

Jan 2026

A paper on sparse signal and image recovery is published in Anal. Theory Appl.

Jan 2026

A paper on sparse logistic regression received the Best Paper Award at IEEE CCWC 2026.

Nov 2025

A paper on nonconvex image denoising is available on arXiv.

Nov 2025

A paper on proximity operators published in J. Optim. Theory Appl.

Aug 2025

Started a postdoctoral position at the School of Data Science and Society, UNC-Chapel Hill, working with Prof. Yifei Lou.

May 2025

Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.

Nov 2024

A paper on sparse signal recovery accepted by J. Sci. Comput.

Apr 2024

Received the Dissertation Fellowship Award to support dissertation completion.

Mar 2024

Honored Outstanding TA award from Syracuse University.

May 2023

A paper on 3D label placement in augmented reality accepted by CGI2023.

Apr 2023

Awarded Kibbey Prize in Mathematics for achievements in the PhD program.