Talks and presentations

A selection of invited talks and presentations. For the complete record, see my curriculum vitae.

• Colloquium speaker, IYSE Department, Georgia Tech, November 2025.
• Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, June 2025.
• Inaugural AMS von Neumann speaker, Joint Mathematics Meetings of the AMS, 2022.
• Invited talk, Mathematics of Complex Data conference, KTH, Sweden, 2022.
• Seminar speaker, NYU Center for Data Science, 2022.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar speaker, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 2022.
• Alan Goldman Lecture, Department of Applied Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, 2022.
• Colloquium, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2019.
• Keynote speaker, Workshop on Foundations of Data Science and Applications, Purdue University, 2019.
• Colloquium, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics/Data Science, Yale University, 2018.
• Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2018.
• CBMS Conference on Sparse Approximation and Signal Recovery Algorithms, May 2017.
• IMA Public Lecture, Group Testing, March 2017.
• University of Minnesota Applied Math Colloquium, March 2017.
• IMA Workshop on Statistical Learning Theory, May 2016.
• Algebraic and Spectral Graph Theory, BIRS, August 2016.
• Plenary speaker, Mathematics and Image Analysis, Paris, January 2016.
• Plenary speaker, Canadian Mathematical Society, Montreal, December 2015.
• Lectures at summer school on Computational Harmonic Analysis, University of Maryland, July 2015.
• Plenary speaker, International Biomedical and Astronomical Signal Processing (BASP) Frontiers Workshop, Switzerland, December 2015.
• Speaker, AIM Workshop on implications of the Kadison-Singer proof, California, 2014.
• Invited speaker, Strata+Hadoop industry conference on massive data, New York, 2014.
• Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul, Korea, 2014.
• Distinguished Speaker, University of Texas at Austin, Winter 2014.
• Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Colloquium, Princeton University, 2013.
• Symposium Speaker, National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Irvine, CA, 2013.
• Boeing Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Washington, 2013.
• AAAS Symposium speaker, Applications of Compressed Sensing, 2013.
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2012.
• Statistics and Computation Colloquium, University of Chicago, 2012.
• Invited speaker, ICALP 2012 Workshop on Group Testing, 2012.
• Invited speaker, Sensing and Analysis of High Dimensional Data (SAHD), Duke University, 2011.
• Plenary Speaker, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Granada, Spain, December 2011.
• Plenary Speaker, Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), St. Malo, France, 2009.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar speaker, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, October 2008.
• Speaker, Workshop on Sublinear Algorithms, Dagstuhl, Germany, August 2008.
• Tutorial Presentation, SIAM Imaging Conference, San Diego, July 2008.
• Speaker, Mining Massive Data Sets, Stanford University, June 2008.
• Plenary talk, Michigan Section of the MAA, May 2008.
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Brown University, May 2008.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar, Vanderbilt University, April 2008.
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, February 2008.
• Invited Speaker, Information Theory and its Applications (ITA), UC San Diego, January 2008.
• Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Cornell University, September 2007.
• Speaker, Workshop on Multiscale Methods, Oberwolfach, Germany, July 2007.
• Invited speaker, von Neumann Symposium, Park City, Utah, 2007.
• Colloquium speaker, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, 2006.
• Invited speaker, Sequences and Codes, IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2006.
• Invited speaker, Abel Symposium, Ålesund, Norway, 2006.
• Colloquium speaker, Department of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2006.
• Colloquium speaker, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2006.
• Colloquium speaker, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2005.
• Colloquium speaker, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2005.
• Invited speaker, Sparse Representation in Redundant Systems Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2005.
• Invited address, AMS Sectional Meeting, Newark, DE, 2005.
• Invited speaker, Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions Conference, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.
• Plenary speaker, SIAM Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2001.
• Invited speaker, Session on Internet Research As an Experimental Science, AAAS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 1999.
• Invited speaker, SIAM Regional Meeting on Mathematics in Industry, Worcester, MA, May 1998.