Yuejie Chi is an electrical engineer and computer scientist who is currently the Sense of Wonder Group Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in AI Systems at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

. Her research involves studying non-convex

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...

and

compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a Signal (electronics), signal by finding solutions to Underdetermined s ...

algorithms used in

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

and

statistical signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as sound, images, potential fields, seismic signals, altimetry processing, and scientific measurements. Signal ...

Education and career

Chi graduated from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 2007. She went to

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2009 and completing her Ph.D. in 2012. Her dissertation, ''Exploitation of Geometry in Signal Processing and Sensing'', was supervised by

Robert Calderbank Robert Calderbank (born 28 December 1954) is a professor of computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc f ...

. After completing her Ph.D., she joined the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

faculty. In 2017 she moved to Carnegie Mellon University as associate professor and the inaugural Robert E. Doherty Early Career Development Professor, later becoming the Sense of Wonder Group Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in AI Systems.

Recognition

Chi was a 2019 recipient of the

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

, sponsored through the

Office of Naval Research The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Established by Congress in 1946, its mission is to plan ...

. She was the inaugural winner of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, in 2019, "for contributions to high-dimensional structured signal processing". She was named as the 2021 Goldsmith Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and as a 2022 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She was elected as an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to statistical signal processing with low-dimensional structures".

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