Yenting Lin

Yenting (Greg) Lin

Yenting Lin

• Ph.D. Candidate (expect graduation: May 2013)

Advisor: Antonio Ortega

Signal and Image Processing Institute

Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering Department

University of Southern California

• Address: 3740 McClintock Ave., EEB 441, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564 Google Map

• Telephone: (213)-740-4655

• E-mail: yenting0322@gmail.com, yenting@usc.edu

Research Interests

My research interest is to recover the low-dimensional structure from sparse (incomplete, corrupted) observations, and apply them to solve problems in signal processing (reservoir modeling and 3D object reconstruction)

• Transmission tomography for high contrast structures

• Compressive sensing and sparse structure exploitation in tight, unconventional reservoir

• Sparse reconstruction for X-Ray discrete tomography

• Group testing for well production measuring

• Signal processing for plenoptic camera

Education

• Sep. 2006-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
• Sep. 2004-May. 2006: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Master of Science, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
• Sep. 1997-May. 2001: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Academic Experience

• Research Assistant, Sep. 2007 - Present
  • Travel time tomography for high contrast media with sparse data
    • Develop algorithms to detect the high contrast structure with sparse water injection and oil production data.
  • Group testing for automatic well-testing system
    • Develop a novel algorithm to increase the production well-testing frequency up to 70% without changing any hardware.
  • Discrete X-ray tomography
    • Reconstruction of high contrast X-ray image (e.g., Angiography) with reduced radiation up to 90%.
  • Underwater acoustic tomography
    • Reduce the variance of estimate travel time in an noisy underwater environment up to 50%.

• Teaching Assistant, Aug. 2006- May 2007
  • Communication theory
    • Lectured Communication theory discussion session for groups of 30 students, 1 hours/week (2 semesters)

Professional Experience

• Summer Research Intern, May 2012 - Aug. 2012
  • Employer: Computation Optics & Visual Processing Group, Ricoh innovation, Menlo Park, CA
  • Contribution:
    • Developed new image processing algorithms for plenoptic camera (1 patent and 1 conference paper are submitted).

• Summer Research Intern, May 2011 - Aug. 2011
  • Employer: CiSoft, a joint center of Chevron and USC, Los Angeles, CA
  • Contribution:
    • Design and apply the my high contrast tomographic reconstruction algorithm to detect geophysical structure discontinuity in an oil field (1 patent is submitted).

• Jun. 2002 to Feb. 2004 Military Service in Taiwan Army as Second Lieutenant
  • Contribution:
    • Manage and maintain the military combat communication network.
    • Lead the development team for C4ISR

Skills / Tools

• Proficient in C/C++, Matlab.
• Good knowledge of Mathematical optimization.

Conference Publications

• Y. Lin and A. Ortega, "Group Testing: A Novel Approach To Increase The Effective Frequency Or Accuracy Of Well-tests Without Increasing Infrastructure Costs", to appear in SPE Western Regional Meeting, Monterey, April 2013.
• Y. Lin, A. Ortega, T. Tafti, and I. Ershaghi, "Detecting shale discontinuity between different layers using water-flood tomography", in SPE Western Regional Meeting, Bakersfield, March 2012.
• Y. Lin, A. Ortega, and A. Dimakis, "Level estimation for sparse reconstruction in discrete tomography", in Proceedings of the Forty Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR 2011), Pacific Grove, November 2011.
• Y. Lin, A. Ortega, and A. Dimakis, "Sparse recovery for discrete tomography", in Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), Hong Kong, September 2010.
• Y. Lin, A. Ortega, A. Nejad, and I. Ershaghi, "Waterfood tomography: mapping high contrast permeability structures using injection/production data", in SPE Western Regional Meeting, Anaheim, May 2010.
• Y. Lin and A. Ortega, "Reconstruction algorithm for high contrast velocity travel time tomography", in Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), Dallas, March 2010.