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Joel A. Tropp

Steele Family Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics
B.A., B.S., University of Texas, Austin, 1999; M.S., 2001; Ph.D., 2004. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2007-12; Professor, 2012-17; Steele Family Professor, 2017-.
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algorithms, numerical analysis, statistics, random matrix theory

Overview

Joel Tropp's work lies at the interface of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics. This research concerns the theoretical and computational aspects of data analysis, sparse modeling, randomized linear algebra, and random matrix theory.

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Joel Tropp Elected Fellow of IEEE
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Professor Tropp Receives Information & Inference Best Paper Prize
Professor Tropp Receives Pioneer Award
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Professor Tropp Receives SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
Professor Tropp Receives the Monroe H. Martin Prize
Joel Tropp Awarded Sixth Vasil A. Popov Prize
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Publications

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Related Courses

2022-23
CMS/ACM 117 – Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
ACM 206 – Topics in Computational Mathematics
ACM 217 – Advanced Topics in Probability
2021-22
CMS/ACM 117 – Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
ACM/IDS 204 – Topics in Linear Algebra and Convexity
2020-21
CMS/ACM 117 – Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
ACM 217 – Advanced Topics in Stochastic Analysis
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