I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin, collaborating with Dr. Umberto Villa on topics related to provable computational methods, photoacoustic imaging, and inverse problems, among others. Prior to Austin, I was a postdoc at the Functional MRI Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I collaborated with Prof. Jeffrey A. Fessler and Prof. Luis Hernandez-Garcia on topics related to computational MRI, Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL), and inverse problems. I completed my PhD research in the Computer Science Department at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Irad Yavneh and Prof. Michael Zibulevsky. My graduate research primarily focused on numerical optimization and multigrid computational methods. Thesis link.

My Erdős number is 3.

My research interests include:

• Numerical Optimization & Multigrid Computational Methods
• Deep Learning & Scientific Computing & Compressive Sensing
• Photoacoustic Computed Tomography and Computational MR Imaging
• Applications to Machine Learning, Signal Processing, and Computational Imaging

Contact Information:

Oden Institute
University of Texas at Austin
TX, 78712-1229, USA
Email: tao + . + lastname@austin.utexas.edu