Rongjie Lai
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Rongjie Lai received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 2003, his M.S. degree in mathematics from the Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006 and his Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2010. Before he joined RPI in 2014, Dr. Lai held visiting assistant professor positions at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, respectively.
Research Interest
Computational differential geometry and applications, Inverse problems and Image processing
Publications
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C. Kao, R. Lai and B. Osting,"Maximal Laplace-Beltrami Eigenvalues on Closed Riemannian Surfaces". ESAIM: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations, 23(2), pp. 685-720,
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R. Lai and H. Zhao, "Multi-scale Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration Using Rotation-invariant Sliced-Wasserstein Distance via Laplace-Beltrami Eigenmap". SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 10(2), pp. 449—483, 2017.
