Ph. D. Candidate of Applied Mathematics

Blake Hunter

Research

 Data mining and high-dimensional data analysis

 Harmonic Analysis

 Laplacian Eigenfunctions of Diffusion Processes

 Digital signal and image processing

 Random Processes and Queueing Theory

Research Areas

Mathematical Papers

 Data mining compressed, incomplete and inaccurate high dimensional data by Hunter, advised by T. Strohmer UC Davis PhD Dissertation, 2011.

 Performance analysis of spectral clustering compressed, incomplete and inaccurate measurements by Hunter and T. Strohmer arXiv (Journal version to appear)

 Performance analysis of compressive spectral clustering by Hunter and T. Strohmer International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics Proceedings, Sparse Approximation and Compressed Sensing, 2010

 Compressive spectral clustering - error analysis by Hunter and T. Strohmer Manifold Learning and Its Applications: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, (FS-10-06) 2010

 Gambler's Ruin with Catastrophes and Windfalls by Hunter, Krinik, Nguyen, Switkes and von Bremmen Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2008. Vol. 2, No. 2, page 199-

 Approaches to Gambler's Ruin with Catastrophes by Hunter, Krinik, Nguyen, Switkes and von Bremmen Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Sciences, (to appear)

 Gambler's Ruin and the Three State Markov Process by Blake Hunter, advised by A.C. Krinik Cal Poly Pomona Master's Thesis, 2005.

Research Experience

  Graduate Student Reasearcher for Thomas Sthromer - UC Davis - June 2008 - present

  Academic Mentor for Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) - Topic Detection and Causal Influence in Microblogs with IBM Research - Student Team - Edward Chang, Ed Dewey, Seckin Sahin, Makim Tsikhanovich - IPAM, UCLA - June 2010 - Aug 2010

  Research Fellow for Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines - Inst. for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA - Sept 2007 - Dec 2007