Eric Culbert Chi

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-0895

Statistics, Machine Learning, Numerical Optimization

I am an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University. From 2015 to 2021, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. I earned my PhD in statistics at Rice University in 2011. After completing my PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in both the Human Genetics department at UCLA and the Digital Signal Processing group at Rice University. My research interests are in statistical learning and numerical optimization and their application to analyzing large and complicated modern data in biological science and engineering applications.

Works (42)

Updated: July 31st, 2023 21:14

2023 article

Bayesian Trend Filtering via Proximal Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Heng, Q., Zhou, H., & Chi, E. C. (2023, February 24). JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS, Vol. 2.

By: Q. Heng n, H. Zhou & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Convex optimization; Epigraphs; Moreau-Yosida envelope; Hamiltonian Monte Carlo; Trend filtering
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: January 20, 2023

2023 article

Robust Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition with the L-2 Criterion

Heng, Q., Chi, E. C., & Liu, Y. (2023, May 20). TECHNOMETRICS.

By: Q. Heng n, E. Chi & Y. Liu*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Inverse problem; L-2 criterion; Nonconvexity; Robustness; Tucker decomposition
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: April 11, 2023

2022 article

A Sharper Computational Tool for L2E Regression

Liu, X., Chi, E. C., & Lange, K. (2022, October 6). TECHNOMETRICS, Vol. 10.

By: X. Liu n, E. Chi & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Distance penalization; Integral squared error criterion; MM principle; Newton's method; Penalized estimation
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: October 8, 2022

2022 journal article

A User-Friendly Computational Framework for Robust Structured Regression with the L2 Criterion

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

By: J. Chi & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Block-relaxation; Convex optimization; Minimum distance estimation; Regularization
Source: ORCID
Added: March 30, 2022

2022 journal article

Revisiting convexity-preserving signal recovery with the linearly involved GMC penalty

PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, 156, 60–66.

By: X. Liu n & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Convexity-preserving nonconvex strategy; Generalized minimax concave penalty; Linearly involved convexity-preserving  model; Feasibility problem; Saddle-point problem
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: February 6, 2022

2021 article

An Interpretable Machine Learning Model to Classify Coronary Bifurcation Lesions

2021 43RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC), pp. 4432–4435.

By: X. Liu n, M. Vardhan*, Q. Wen*, A. Das*, A. Randles* & E. Chi

co-author countries: China 🇨🇳 United States of America 🇺🇸
MeSH headings : Coronary Artery Disease; Heart; Hemodynamics; Humans; Machine Learning; Stress, Mechanical
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: December 30, 2021

2021 journal article

COBRAC: a fast implementation of convex biclustering with compression

BIOINFORMATICS, 37(20), 3667–3669.

By: H. Yi*, L. Huang*, G. Mishne* & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: January 3, 2022

2021 journal article

Discovering Geometry in Data Arrays

Computing in Science & Engineering, 23(6), 42–51.

By: E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Arrays; IEEE Fellows; Tensors; Organizations; Optimization; Neurons; Lung cancer
Source: ORCID
Added: December 23, 2021

2021 article

Multi-scale affinities with missing data: Estimation and applications

Zhang, M., Mishne, G., & Chi, E. C. (2021, November 5). STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING.

By: M. Zhang n, G. Mishne* & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: kernels; missing data; penalized estimation
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: November 6, 2021

2021 journal article

Non-invasive characterization of complex coronary lesions

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 11(1).

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
MeSH headings : Computer Simulation; Coronary Angiography / methods; Coronary Disease / classification; Coronary Disease / diagnostic imaging; Diagnosis, Differential; Hemodynamics; Humans; Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods; Shear Strength
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: May 17, 2021

2021 article

SCALABLE ALGORITHMS FOR CONVEX CLUSTERING

2021 IEEE DATA SCIENCE AND LEARNING WORKSHOP (DSLW).

By: W. Zhou n, H. Yi*, G. Mishne* & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Convex optimization; Parallel computing; Sparsity; Unsupervised Learning
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: December 6, 2021

2021 journal article

Sparse Single Index Models for Multivariate Responses

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 30(1), 115–124.

By: Y. Feng n, L. Xiao n & E. Chi

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Alternating direction method of multipliers; High dimension; Multivariate response; Single index model; Sparsity
Source: ORCID
Added: July 1, 2020

2020 journal article

BASELINE DRIFT ESTIMATION FOR AIR QUALITY DATA USING QUANTILE TREND FILTERING

ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 14(2), 585–604.

By: H. Brantley*, J. Guinness* & E. Chi

author keywords: Air quality; nonparametric quantile regression; trend estimation
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: July 20, 2020

2020 journal article

FastLORS: Joint modelling for expression quantitative trait loci mapping in R

STAT, 9(1).

By: J. Rhyne n, X. Jeng n, E. Chi & J. Tzeng n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: block coordinate descent; eQTL mapping; low-rank approximation; proximal gradient descent; sparse regression
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: May 7, 2020

2020 journal article

Multiway Graph Signal Processing on Tensors: Integrative Analysis of Irregular Geometries

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE, 37(6), 160–173.

By: J. Stanley*, E. Chi & G. Mishne*

co-author countries: Israel 🇮🇱 United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Tensors; Signal processing; Two dimensional displays; Geometry; Discrete Fourier transforms; Graphical models; Laplace equations
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: November 30, 2020

2020 journal article

Provable Convex Co-clustering of Tensors

Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(214), 1–58. http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/18-155.html

By: E. Chi, B. Gaines, W. Sun, H. Zhou & J. Yang

Source: ORCID
Added: March 26, 2021

2019 conference paper

Co-manifold learning with missing data

In K. Chaudhuri & R. Salakhutdinov (Eds.), International Conference on Machine Learning (Vol. 97, pp. 4605–4614). http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/mishne19a.html

By: G. Mishne, E. Chi & R. Coifman

Ed(s): K. Chaudhuri & R. Salakhutdinov

Event: at Long Beach, California, USA

Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2019 journal article

Going Off the Grid: Iterative Model Selection for Biclustered Matrix Completion

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS, 28(1), 36–47.

By: E. Chi, L. Hu n, A. Saibaba n & A. Rao*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Convex optimization; Degrees of freedom; Hutchinson estimator; Information criterion; Penalization; Sparse linear systems
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: May 13, 2019

2019 review

Matrix completion from a computational statistics perspective

[Review of ]. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, 11(5).

By: E. Chi & T. Li*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Collaborative filtering; low-rank approximation; missing data; optimization; recommender systems
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 26, 2019

2019 journal article

Recovering Trees with Convex Clustering

SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 1(3), 383–407.

By: E. Chi & S. Steinerberger

author keywords: convex optimization; fused lasso; hierarchical clustering; penalized regression; sparsity
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2019 article

Shape Constrained Tensor Decompositions

2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA SCIENCE AND ADVANCED ANALYTICS (DSAA 2019), pp. 287–297.

By: B. Lusch*, E. Chi & J. Kutz*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: tensor decomposition; multiway arrays; multilinear algebra; higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD); over-complete libraries; sparse regression
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: July 13, 2020

2019 journal article

Tensor canonical correlation analysis

Stat, 8(1).

By: E. Min*, E. Chi & H. Zhou*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: block coordinate ascent; CP decomposition; multidimensional array data
Source: ORCID
Added: January 3, 2020

2018 journal article

A majorization-minimization algorithm for split feasibility problems

COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS, 71(3), 795–828.

By: J. Xu*, E. Chi, M. Yang n & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Majorize-minimize; Nonlinear split feasibility; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Proximity function minimization; Constrained regression
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: December 10, 2018

2017 journal article

Convex Biclustering

BIOMETRICS, 73(1), 10–19.

By: E. Chi, G. Allen* & R. Baraniuk*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Clustering; Convex optimization; Fused lasso; Gene expression; Reproducible research; Structured sparsity
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Cluster Analysis; Computational Biology / methods; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Databases, Genetic; Gene Expression Profiling / methods; Gene Regulatory Networks; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 conference paper

Generalized Linear Model Regression under Distance-to-set Penalties

In I. Guyon, U. V. Luxburg, S. Bengio, H. Wallach, R. Fergus, S. Vishwanathan, & R. Garnett (Eds.), Neural Information Processing Systems (pp. 1385–1395). https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6737-generalized-linear-model-regression-under-distance-to-set-penalties

By: J. Xu, E. Chi & K. Lange

Ed(s): I. Guyon, U. Luxburg, S. Bengio, H. Wallach, R. Fergus, S. Vishwanathan, R. Garnett

Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2016 journal article

ESTIMATING A COMMON PERIOD FOR A SET OF IRREGULARLY SAMPLED FUNCTIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO PERIODIC VARIABLE STAR DATA

ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 10(1), 165–197.

By: J. Long, E. Chi & R. Baraniuk*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Astrostatistics; penalized likelihood; period estimation; functional data; MM algorithm; block coordinate descent
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

k-POD: A Method for k-Means Clustering of Missing Data

AMERICAN STATISTICIAN, 70(1), 91–99.

By: J. Chi, E. Chi & R. Baraniuk*

co-author countries: Norway 🇳🇴
author keywords: Clustering; k-means; Imputation; Majorization-minimization; Missing data
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 journal article

Convex Clustering: An Attractive Alternative to Hierarchical Clustering

PLoS Computational Biology, 11(5), e1004228.

By: G. Chen*, E. Chi, J. Ranola* & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Cluster Analysis; Computational Biology / methods; Databases, Genetic; Gene Expression Profiling / methods; Humans; Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods; Software
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2015 journal article

Splitting Methods for Convex Clustering

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 24(4), 994–1013.

By: E. Chi & K. Lange*

co-author countries: Norway 🇳🇴
author keywords: Alternating direction method of multipliers; Alternating minimization algorithm; Convex optimization; Hierarchical clustering; k-means; Regularization paths
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2014 journal article

A Brief Survey of Modern Optimization for Statisticians

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW, 82(1), 46–70.

By: K. Lange*, E. Chi & H. Zhou n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: acceleration; augmented Lagrangian; penalization; MM algorithm; Newton's method; Block relaxation
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

A Look at the Generalized Heron Problem through the Lens of Majorization-Minimization

The American Mathematical Monthly, 121(2), pp. 95–108.

By: E. Chi & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2014 journal article

Distance majorization and its applications

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING, 146(1-2), 409–436.

By: E. Chi, H. Zhou n & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Constrained optimization; Majorization-minimization (MM); Sequential unconstrained minimization; Projection
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Rejoinder

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW, 82(1), 81–89.

By: K. Lange*, E. Chi & H. Zhou n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸

Contributors: K. Lange*, E. Chi & H. Zhou n

Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Robust Parametric Classification and Variable Selection by a Minimum Distance Criterion

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 23(1), 111–128.

By: E. Chi & D. Scott

author keywords: Elastic net; Implosion breakdown; LASSO; Logistic regression; Majorization-minimization; Robust estimation
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2014 journal article

Stable estimation of a covariance matrix guided by nuclear norm penalties

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 80(0), 117–128.

By: E. Chi & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Covariance estimation; Regularization; Condition number; Discriminant analysis; EM clustering
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2013 journal article

Genotype imputation via matrix completion

GENOME RESEARCH, 23(3), 509–518.

By: E. Chi, H. Zhou n, G. Chen*, D. Del Vecchyo* & K. Lange*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Simulation; Genome, Human; Genotype; HapMap Project; Humans; Microarray Analysis; Models, Genetic; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Software
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2013 conference paper

Imaging genetics via sparse canonical correlation analysis

Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on, 740–743.

By: E. Chi, G. Allen*, H. Zhou n, O. Kohannim, K. Lange & P. Thompson

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2012 journal article

On Tensors, Sparsity, and Nonnegative Factorizations

SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications, 33(4), 1272–1299.

By: E. Chi & T. Kolda

author keywords: nonnegative tensor factorization; nonnegative CANDECOMP-PARAFAC; Poisson tensor factorization; Lee-Seung multiplicative updates; majorization-minimization algorithms
Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2006 journal article

Proton auroral intensifications and injections at synchronous altitude

Geophysical Research Letters, 33(6).

By: E. Chi, S. Mende, M. Fok & G. Reeves

Contributors: E. Chi, S. Mende, M. Fok & G. Reeves

Source: ORCID
Added: December 6, 2019

2005 journal article

Different Algorithms for Normal and Protection Paths

Journal of Network and Systems Management, 13(1), 13–33.

By: R. Gupta*, E. Chi & J. Walrand*

co-author countries: Jordan 🇯🇴 United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: February 21, 2020

2004 journal article

Proactive resource provisioning

Computer Communications, 27(12), 1174–1182.

By: E. Chi, M. Fu* & J. Walrand*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: resource provisioning; quality of service; voice over IP; MPLS; service level agreement
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: February 21, 2020

2004 journal article

Proactive resource provisioning

Computer Communications, 27(12), 1174–1182.

By: E. Chi, M. Fu & J. Walrand

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: February 21, 2020

Employment

Updated: July 7th, 2021 19:32

2021 - present

Rice University Houston, Texas, US
Associate Professor Statistics

2015 - 2021

North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Assistant Professor Statistics

2013 - 2015

Rice University Houston, TX, US
Postdoctoral Research Associate Electrical and Computer Engineering

2011 - 2013

University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, US
Postdoctoral Scholar Human Genetics

Education

Updated: July 21st, 2014 05:06

2007 - 2011

Rice University Houston, Texas, US
Ph.D. Statistics

Funding History

Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: May 9th, 2020 08:44

grant September 23, 2019 - August 31, 2022
Imputing single cell RNA sequencing data: Mathematical, statistical and computational challenges
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
grant July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2023
CAREER: Stable and Scalable Estimation of the Intrinsic Geometry of Multiway Data
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences