Curriculum Vitae

Duke University Mathematics Department, 119 Physics Box 90320 Durham, NC 27708-0320

(919)-660-2825 (office) (email)

Education

PhD	Washington University, St. Louis	2002
MS	Washington University, St. Louis	2000
Laurea in Matematica	Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy	1999

Areas of Research

Harmonic analysis, with applications to statistical analysis of high-dimensional data, machine learning, imaging.

Areas of Interest

Harmonic analysis
Multiscale analysis
Markov decision processes
Machine learning
High-dimensional data analysis
Stochastic dynamical systems
Signal processing
Imaging (e.g. hyperspectral)
Geometric measure theory

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Assistant Professor, Mathematics (primary) and Computer Science (secondary), August 1, 2006 - present

Yale University

Research Scientist, Mathematics/Program in Applied Mathematics, July 01, 2005 - June 30, 2006

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics/Program in Applied Mathematics, July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2005

Mettler-Toledo-Myriad

Software Engineer, , February 23, 2001 - June 30, 2002

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Sloan Fellowship, Sloan Foundation, March, 2008
Popov prize, April, 2007

Recent Grant Support

• ONR BAA 07-001, ONR, N000140710625, 2007/04-2010/06.      
• Geometric Modeling OF and Function Approximation ON High Dimensional, Multi-Modal Data Sets, Office of Naval Research, N00014-07-1-0625, 2007/02-2010/03.      
• Diffusion Multiscale Analysis, National Science Foundation, DMS-0650413, 2006/08-2008/06.      
• Diffusion Multiscale Analysis, NSF DMS, 0650413, 2006/08-2008/06.      
• Subcontract for L.A.C.O.S.T.E. Program, 2006/08-2007/12.      
• Diffusion Multiscale Analysis, National Science Foundation, DMS 0501250, 2005/07-2006/07.      

Conferences Organized

Workshop on Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian, ICIAM 2007, July 18, 2007  

Organizer, Document Space, January, 2006  

Professional Service

Dept Committee

Qualying exam committee, December 2007  

Qualying exam committee, December 2007  

Master's committee, December 2007  

Prelim Committee, December 05, 2007  

Exam Committee, December, 2007  

Prelim Committee, November, 2007  

Prelim Committee, September, 2007  

Applied ARP Committee, January, 2007  

Papers Refereed

Refereed for a number of journals, 2006 - present  

various journals, December 2006  

Refereed for a number of journals, December 2006  

Other

Master thesis committee for Lu Ren, E.C.E., August 16, 2007  

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Harmonic and multiscale analysis of and on data in high-dimensions, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany, December 12, 2007  

Super fast tour on the basics of compressive sensing, SAMSI, November 27, 2007  

Diffusion analysis of and on data sets through diffusion operators, IPAM, UCLA, October 29, 2007  

Diffusion analysis of and on graphs, and high-dimensional data, TTI-Chicago, October 08, 2007  

Diffusion analysis of and on graphs, and high-dimensional data, Chicago, October 06, 2007  

Diffusion analysis of and on graphs, and high-dimensional data, IPAM, UCLA, October 03, 2007  

Diffusion analysis of and on graphs, and high-dimensional data, Banff, September 27, 2007  

Diffusion analysis of and on graphs, and high-dimensional data, July, 2007  

Diffusion processes on graphs and multiscale analysis of high dimensional data, San Antonio, Texas, March 06, 2007  

Multiscale analysis of diffusion processes on graphs and analysis of high-dimensional data, M.I.T., February 14, 2007  

Multiscale analysis of diffusion processes on graphs and analysis of high-dimensional data, N.C.S.U., January 26, 2007  

Analisi armonica multiscala applicata all'analisi di dati digitali in alte dimensioni e su grafi, Dipt Mat Appl, Milano, December 20, 2006  

Multiscale Analysis of Diffusion Processes on Graphs and Analysis of High-dimensional Data, JHU, Dept. Appl. Math., October, 2006  

Multiscale Analysis of Diffusion Processes on Graphs and Analysis of High-dimensional Data, Dipt. Sci. Inf. Mat. Appl., May, 2006  

Multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, Brown Univ, February, 2006  

Multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, GATech, February, 2006  

Multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, Stanford Univ., February, 2006  

Multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, Univ. Minnesota, Dept. Math., January, 2006  

Multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, UCLA, January, 2006  

Diffusion Wavelets for multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, EPFL, Lausanne, December, 2005  

Diffusion Wavelets for multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, Cornell Univ., October, 2005  

Diffusion Wavelets for multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications, Penn State, September, 2005  

Doctoral Theses Directed

Arthur D Szlam, Multiscale Analysis on Graphs and Applications, (2006)  

Publications

Papers Published

1. James C Bremer and Ronald R Coifman and Mauro Maggioni and Arthur D Szlam, Diffusion Wavelet Packets, Tech. Rep. YALE/DCS/TR-1304, Yale Univ. 2004, Appl. Comp. Harm. Anal., vol. 21 no. 1 (2006), pp. 95--112
2. Ronald R Coifman and Mauro Maggioni, Diffusion Wavelets, Appl. Comp. Harm. Anal., vol. 21 no. 1 (2006), pp. 53--94
3. Ronald R. Coifman and Stephane Lafon and Mauro Maggioni and Yosi Keller and Arthur D. Szlam and Frederick J. Warner and Steven W. Zucker, Geometries of sensor outputs, inference, and information processing, in Proc. SPIE, edited by Intelligent Integrated Microsystems; Ravindra A. Athale, John C. Zolper; Eds., vol. 6232 (2006), pp. 623209
4. Sridhar Mahadevan and Kimberly Ferguson and Sarah Osentoski and Mauro Maggioni, Simultaneous Learning of Representation and Control In Continuous Domains, in submitted, Proc. AAAI 2006 (2006)
5. Mauro Maggioni and Gustave L. Davis and Frederick J. Warner and Frank B. Geshwind and Andreas C. Coppi and Richard A. DeVerse and Ronald R. Coifman, Hyperspectral microscopic analysis of normal, benign and carcinoma microarray tissue sections, edited by Robert R. Alfano and Alvin Katz, Optical Biopsy VI, vol. 6091 no. 1 (2006), pp. 60910I, SPIE
6. Sridhar Mahadevan and Mauro Maggioni, Proto-value Functions: A Spectral Framework for Solving Markov Decision Processes, submitted (2006)
7. Ronald R Coifman and Stephane Lafon and Ann Lee and Mauro Maggioni and Boaz Nadler and Frederick Warner and Steven Zucker, Geometric Diffusions as a tool for Harmonic Analysis and structure definition of data. Part II: Multiscale methods, Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sci. no. 102 (2005), pp. 7432--7438
8. Ronald R Coifman and Mauro Maggioni and Steven W Zucker and Iannis G Kevrekidis, Geometric diffusions for the analysis of data from sensor networks, Curr Opin Neurobiol, vol. 15 no. 5 (2005), pp. 576--84
9. Ronald R Coifman and Stephane Lafon and Ann Lee and Mauro Maggioni and Boaz Nadler and Frederick Warner and Steven Zucker, Geometric Diffusions as a tool for Harmonic Analysis and structure definition of data. Part I: Diffusion maps, Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sci. no. 102 (2005), pp. 7426--7431
10. Mauro Maggioni and Sridhar Mahadevan, Fast Direct Policy Evaluation using Multiscale Analysis of Markov Diffusion Processes, in University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2005-39; accepted at ICML 2006 (2005)
11. Arthur D. Szlam and Mauro Maggioni and Ronald R. Coifman and James C. Bremer Jr., Diffusion-driven multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: top-down and bottom-up constructions, edited by Manos Papadakis and Andrew F. Laine and Michael A. Unser, Wavelets XI, vol. 5914 no. 1 (2005), pp. 59141D, SPIE
12. Mauro Maggioni and James C. BremerJr. and Ronald R. Coifman and Arthur D. Szlam, Biorthogonal diffusion wavelets for multiscale representations on manifolds and graphs, edited by Manos Papadakis and Andrew F. Laine and Michael A. Unser, Wavelets XI, vol. 5914 no. 1 (2005), pp. 59141M, SPIE
13. Sridhar Mahadevan and Mauro Maggioni, Value Function Approximation with Diffusion Wavelets and Laplacian Eigenfunctions, in University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2005-38; Proc. NIPS 2005 (2005)
14. E Causevic and R~R Coifman and R Isenhart and A Jacquin and E~R John and M Maggioni and L~S Prichep and F~J Warner, QEEG-based classification with wavelet packets and microstate features for triage applications in the ER (2005)
15. Mauro Maggioni and Frederick J Warner and Gustave L Davis and Ronald R Coifman and Frank B Geshwind and Andreas C Coppi and Richard A DeVerse, Algorithms from Signal and Data Processing Applied to Hyperspectral Analysis: Application to Discriminating Normal and Malignant Microarray Colon Tissue Sections, submitted (2004)
16. Mauro Maggioni, Wavelet frames on groups and hypergroups via discretization of Calder\'on formulas, Monats. Mat. no. 143 (2004), pp. 299--331
17. RJ Cassidy and J Berger and Mauro Maggioni and RR Coifman, Auditory display of hyperspectral colon tissue images using vocal synthesis models, Proc. 2004 Intern. Con. Auditory Display (2004)
18. Gustave L Davis and Mauro Maggioni and Frederick J Warner and Frank B Geshwind and Andreas C Coppi and Richard A DeVerse and Ronald R Coifman, Spectral Analysis of normal and Malignant Microarray Tissue Sections using a novel micro-optoelectrialmechanical system, Mod Pathol, vol. 17 no. 1:358A (2004)
19. Gustave L Davis and Mauro Maggioni and Ronald R Coifman and Richard Levinson and David Rimm, Spatial-Spectral Analysis of Colon Carcinoma, Mod. Path. (2004)
20. S. Ferrari and M. Maggioni and N. A. Borghese, Multi-Scale Approximation with Hierarchical Radial Basis Functions Networks,, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 15 no. 1 (2004), pp. 178--188
21. Nets Hawk Katz and Elliot Krop and Mauro Maggioni, On the box problem, Math. Research Letters, vol. 4 (2002), pp. 515-519
22. CK Chui and W Czaja and Mauro Maggioni and G Weiss, Characterization of Tight Wavelet Frames with Arbitrary Matrix Dilations and Tightness Preserving Oversampling, J Four Anal App, vol. 8 no. 2 (2002), pp. 173-200
23. Mauro Maggioni, Critical Exponent of Short Even Filters and Biorthogonal Burt-Adelson Wavelets, Monats. Math., vol. 131 no. 1 (2000), pp. 49-70
24. Mauro Maggioni, M-Band Burt-Adelson Wavelets, Appl. Comput. Harm. Anal., vol. 3 (2000), pp. 286-311

Papers Accepted

1. A.D. Szlam, R.R. Coifman, M. Maggioni, A general framework for adaptive regularization based on diffusion processes, Journ. Mach. Learn. Res. (November, 2007)
2. S. Mahadevan, M. Maggioni, Proto-value Functions: A Laplacian Framework for Learning Representation and Control, Journ. Mach. Learn. Res. (September, 2007)
3. P.W. Jones, M. Maggioni, R. Schul, Manifold parametrizations by eigenfunctions of the Laplacian and heat kernels, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (2007)
4. Michael W Mahoney and Mauro Maggioni and Petros Drineas,, Tensor-CUR Decompositions For Tensor-Based Data, in Proc 12-th Annual SIGKDD, to appear in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2006)

Papers Submitted

1. R R Coifman, I G Kevrekidis, S Lafon, M Maggioni, B. Nadler, Diffusion Maps, reduction coordinates and low dimensional representation of stochastic systems (2007)
2. P.W. Jones, M. Maggioni, R. Schul, Universal local manifold parametrizations via heat kernels and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian (2007)
3. Arthur D. Szlam and Mauro Maggioni and Ronald R. Coifman, A General Framework for Adaptive Regularization Based on Diffusion Processes On Graphs no. YALE/DCS/TR1365 (2006)
4. Mauro Maggioni and Ronald R Coifman, Multiscale Spectral Analysis on Data Sets with Diffusion Wavelets, in submitted (2006)
5. Mauro Maggioni and Sridhar Mahadevan, Multiscale Diffusion Bases for Policy Iteration in Markov Decision Processes, submitted (2006)
6. William Goetzmann and Peter W Jones and Mauro Maggioni and Johan Walden, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, submitted (2004)

Papers In Preparation

1. E. Monson, M. Maggioni, A. Lin, Markov Modeling of experimental, constrained geometry neuron network dynamics (2007)
2. W. Goetzman, P.W. Jones, M. Maggioni, J. Walden, Nonlinear Fund Styles (2007)
3. M. Maggioni, Sparse multiscale regression on graphs (2007)
4. Peter W Jones and Mauro Maggioni and Raanan Schul, Universal parametrizations via Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian (2006)
5. Mauro Maggioni and Hrushikesh Mhaskar, Diffusion polynomial frames on metric measure spaces, submitted (2006)
6. Arthur D Szlam and Yoel Shkolnisky and James C Bremer and Mauro Maggioni, Image Denoising Via Graph Diffusions, in preparation (2006)
7. Mauro Maggioni and Frederick J Warner and Gustave L Davis and Ronald R Coifman and Frank B Geshwind and Andreas C Coppi and Richard A DeVerse, Algorithms from Signal and Data Processing Applied to Hyperspectral Analysis: Application to Discriminating Normal and Malignant Microarray Colon Tissue Sections no. 1311 (2004)

Preprints

1. Ronald Raphel Coifman and Mauro Maggioni, Multiscale Analysis of Document Corpora (2006)
2. Arthur D. Szlam and Mauro Maggioni and Ronald R. Coifman, A General Framework for Adaptive Regularization Based on Diffusion Processes On Graphs no. YALE/DCS/TR1365 (2006)
3. Ronald R Coifman and Mauro Maggioni, Multiscale Data Analysis with Diffusion Wavelets no. YALE/DCS/TR-1335 (2005)
4. GL Davis and Mauro Maggioni and FJ Warner and FB Geshwind and AC Coppi and RA DeVerse and RR Coifman, Hyper-spectral Analysis of normal and malignant colon tissue microarray sections using a novel DMD system (2004) (Poster, Optical Imaging NIH workshop, to app. in proc..)
5. Ronald R Coifman and Mauro Maggioni, Multiresolution Analysis associated to diffusion semigroups: construction and fast algorithms no. YALE/DCS/TR-1289 (2004)

Other

1. E. Liberty, S. Zucker, Y. Keller, M. Maggioni, R.R. Coifman, F. Geshwind, Methods for filtering data and filling in missing data using nonlinear filtering, US Patent US2006/0214133 A1 (April, 2007)
2. M. Maggioni, R Coifman, AC Coppi, GL Davis, RA DeVerse, WG Fately, F. Geshwind, FJ Warner, System and method for hyperspectral analysis, US Patent US2006/0074835 A1 (April, 2006)
3. RR Coifman, A. Coppi, F. Geshwind, SS Lafon, AB Lee, M Maggioni, FJ Warner, SW Zucker, WG Fately, System and method for document analysis, processing and information extraction, U.S. Patent US2006/0004753A1 (January, 2006)