Teng Zhang | UCF Department of Mathematics

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Email: Teng.Zhang@ucf.edu
Office: MSB building 202G

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Publications:

Monograph:

Structured Robust Covariance Estimation, Ami Wiesel and Teng Zhang, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing: Vol. 8: No. 3, pp 127-216, 2015.

Manuscripts:

Theoretical Guarantees for the Subspace-Constrained Tyler’s Estimator. Gilad Lerman, Feng Yu, and Teng Zhang.
Projected Gradient Descent Algorithm for Low-Rank Matrix Estimation. Teng Zhang and Xing Fan.
Understanding Overfitting in Adversarial Training via Kernel Regression. Teng Zhang and Kang Li.
Theoretical Guarantees for Sparse Principal Component Analysis based on the Elastic Net, Teng Zhang, Haoyi Yang, and Lingzhou Xue.
An Algorithm for Graph-Fused Lasso Based on Graph Decomposition. Feng Yu, Yi Yang, and Teng Zhang.
Anisotropic twicing for single particle reconstruction using autocorrelation analysis. Tejal Bhamre, Teng Zhang, and Amit Singer.

Journal Papers:

Robust Sufficient Dimension Reduction via a-Distance Covariance. Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Feng Yu, and Teng Zhang. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, accepted.
A framework of regularized low-rank matrix models for regression and classification. Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Feng Yu, Xing Fan, and Teng Zhang. Statistics and Computing, 34(10), 2024.
Element-wise estimation error of generalized fused lasso. Teng Zhang and Sabyasachi Chatterjee. Bernoulli, 29(4): 2691-2718, 2023.
ALMA: Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Clustering Mixture Multilayer Network. Xing Fan, Marianna Pensky, Feng Yu, Teng Zhang. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23 (1): 14855-14900, 2022.
Orthogonal Trace-Sum Maximization: Tightness of the Semidefinite Relaxation and Guarantee of Locally Optimal Solutions. Joong-Ho Won, Teng Zhang, Hua Zhou. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 32(3):2180-2207, 2022.
Phase retrieval of complex-valued objects via a randomized Kaczmarz method. Feng Yu and Teng Zhang. Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA,11(3):823-843, 2022.
Design and Analysis of Secure Distributed Estimator for Vehicular Platooning in Adversarial Environment. Raj Gautam Dutta, Yaodan Hu, Feng Yu, Teng Zhang, Yier Jin, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(4):3418-3429, 2022.
Phase Retrieval by Alternating Minimization with Random Initialization. Teng Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66 (7), 4563-4573, 2020.
Robust discriminant analysis using multi-directional projection pursuit, Hsin-Hsiung Huang and Teng Zhang, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 138, October 2020, Pages 651-656.
Platform-integrated mRNA Isoform Quantification, Jiao Sun, Jae-Woong Chang, Teng Zhang, Jeongsik Yong, Rui Kuang, and Wei Zhang, Bioinformatics, Volume 36, Issue 8, 2466–2473, 2020.
Phase retrieval using alternating minimization in a batch setting, Teng Zhang, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Volume 49 (1), 279-295, 2020.
Spectral clustering in the dynamic stochastic block model, Marianna Pensky and Teng Zhang, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Volume 13 (1), 678-709, 2019.
A Well-Tempered Landscape for Non-convex Robust Subspace Recovery, Tyler Maunu, Teng Zhang, and Gilad Lerman, Journal of Machine Learning Research, (37):1-59, 2019.
Robust Principal Component Analysis by Manifold Optimization, Teng Zhang and Yi Yang, Journal of Machine Learning Research, (80):1-39, 2018. MATLAB Code. Supplementary data.
Exact Camera Location Recovery by Least Unsquared Deviations, Gilad Lerman, Yunpeng Shi, Teng Zhang, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 11(4), 2692–2721, 2018.
A note on the non-commutative arithmetic-geometric mean inequality, Teng Zhang, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, Volume 34, pp. 283-287, 2018. Arxiv Errata
Flexible Expectile Regression in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space, Yi Yang, Teng Zhang and Hui Zou, Technometrics, 60(1), 26-35, 2018. R-package
Disentangling Orthogonal Matrices, Teng Zhang and Amit Singer, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2017, 524, 159-181.
A Majorization-Minimization Algorithm for Computing the Karcher Mean of Positive Definite Matrices, Teng Zhang, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 38-2 (2017), pp. 322-342. (Matlab code)
Spectral Clustering Based on Local PCA, Ery Arias-Castro, Gilad Lerman, and Teng Zhang. (Matlab code), Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2017, 18 (9), 1-57.
Denoising and Covariance Estimation of Single Particle Cryo-EM Images. Tejal Bhamre, Teng Zhang and Amit Singer, Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 195, Issue 1, July 2016, Pages 72–81.
Marchenko-Pastur Law for Tyler’s M-estimator, Teng Zhang, Xiuyuan Cheng and Amit Singer, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Volume 149, July 2016, 114–123.
Robust subspace recovery by Tyler’s M-estimator, Teng Zhang, Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, 2016, 5 (1): 1-21. With proof of Theorem 1.1 corrected.
Robust computation of linear models by convex relaxation, Gilad Lerman, Michael McCoy, Joel A. Tropp, and Teng Zhang. Foundation of Computational Mathematics. 2015 15 (2): 363-410. (Matlab code)
Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation via Positive Definite Constrained Minimization of $\ell_1$ Penalized D-Trace Loss. Teng Zhang and Hui Zou. Biometrika, 2014, 101 (1): 103-120. (Matlab code)
lp-Recovery of the Most Significant Subspace among Multiple Subspaces with Outliers, Gilad Lerman and Teng Zhang. Constructive Approximation, 2014, 40:329–385.
A Novel M-Estimator for Robust PCA, Teng Zhang and Gilad Lerman. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2014, 15(1): 749-808. (Matlab code)
Multivariate Generalized Gaussian Distribution: Convexity and Graphical Models, Teng Zhang, Ami Wiesel, Maria Sabrina Grec. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2013, Vol. 61, Issue. 16, 4141-4148.
Hybrid Linear Modeling via Local Best Fit Flats, Teng Zhang, Arthur Szlam, Yi Wang and Gilad Lerman. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2012, Vol. 100, Issue.3, 217-240 (Matlab code and supplementary material)
Robust recovery of multiple subspaces by geometric lp minimization, Gilad Lerman and Teng Zhang, Annals of Statistics 2011, Vol. 39, No. 5, 2686-2715.

Conference papers:

A Subspace-Constrained Tyler’s Estimator and its Applications to Structure from Motion. Feng Yu, Teng Zhang, Gilad Lerman, CVPR 2024.
Resilient Distributed Estimator with Information Consensus for CPS Security. Feng Yu, Yaodan Hu, Teng Zhang, Yier Jin, IEEE 38th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020.
CloudLeak: Large-Scale Deep Learning Models Stealing Through Adversarial Examples, Honggang Yu, Kaichen Yang, Teng Zhang, Yun-Yun Tsai, Tsung-Yi Ho, Yier Jin, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2020.
Resilient Distributed Filter for State Estimation of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Attack, Raj Gautam Dutta, Gainesville, Teng Zhang, Yier Jin, American Control Conference (ACC) 2019.
Security for Safety: A Path Toward Building Trusted Autonomous Vehicles, Raj Gautam Dutta, Feng Yu, Teng Zhang, Yaodan Hu, Yier Jin, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2018.
Estimation of Safe States of Autonomous System Under Attack, Raj Gautam Dutta, Xiaolong Guo, Teng Zhang, Kevin Kwiat, Charles Kamhoua, Laurent Njilla and Yier Jin. The 54th Design Automation Conference, 2017.
Automatic diagonal loading for Tyler’s robust covariance estimator, Teng Zhang and Ami Wiesel, 2016 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2016).
Orthogonal Matrix Retrieval in Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Tejal Bhamre, Teng Zhang and Amit Singer. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.
Robust Stochastic Principal Component Analysis, John Goes, Teng Zhang, Raman Arora and Gilad Lerman. Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2014).
Randomized Hybrid Linear Modeling by Local Best-fit Flats, Teng Zhang, Arthur Szlam, Yi Wang and Gilad Lerman. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1927-1934. (Matlab code and supplementary material)
Median K-Flats for Hybrid Linear Modeling with Many Outliers, Teng Zhang, Arthur Szlam and Gilad Lerman. Proc. of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods (Subspace 2009), pp. 234-241 (2009). (Matlab code)