CURRENT POSITION

• Graduate Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA. (expected 2006)
• M.A. in Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA., 2003
• B.S. in Mathematics, Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
• Magna cum laude, most outstanding graduate in the major, 1999

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

• Research Assistant Fellowship, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA, 2004-Present
• Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA, 2000-2004
• Valedictorian Scholarship, Univ. of the Pacific, 1995-1999
• Most Outstanding Graduating Senior in Mathematics, Univ. of the Pacific, 1999
• Barnum-Everett Award, excellence in mathematics, Univ. of the Pacific, 1998

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Image analysis, image restoration, segmentation, multi-scale decomposition of images
• Calculus of variation, partial differential equations
• Applications of level-set method

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant in Mathematics: conducted discussion sessions for undergraduate
  level Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Imaging, Calculus, Multi-variable Calculus,
  Introduction to Discrete Structures, Algebra.
• Teaching Assistant in Program in Computing: Introduction to Programming in C++.

RESEARCH POSITIONS APPOINTED

• Graduate student research assistant, UCLA Mathematics Department, Mentor: Luminita
  Vese, 2004-Present
• Graduate intern, UCLA Mathematics Department in Collaboration with Los Alamos
  National Lab, Mentors: Andrea Bertozzi and Larry Hill, Summer 2005
• Graduate student research assistant, Univ. of California, Davis, Institute for Data
  Analysis and Visualization, Mentor: David Rocke, Summer 2002
• Graduate student technical scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, X-Division,
  Mentor: David Reisman, Summer 1999

PUBLICATIONS

• L. Lieu and L. Vese, Image Restoration and Decomposition Via Bounded Total Variation
  and Negative Hilbert-Sobolev Spaces, submitted 2005, (manuscript available online at
  ftp://ftp.math.ucla.edu/pub/camreport/cam05-33.pdf)
• T. Le, L. Lieu and L. Vese, BV and dual of BV image decomposition models and
  minimization algorithms Image, Tech. Report, March 2005
• A. Bertozzi, Y.H. Huang, L.G. Hill, L. Lieu and M.Q. Zhu, Edge detection in streakcamera
  images, (manuscript in preparation)

PRESENTATIONS

• Invited presentation, “Tracking Detonation Waves in Streak-Camera Images with Chan-
  Vese Active Contour Without Edges”, Workshop on Image Processing for Streak
  Photography, Los Alamos National Lab, NM, October 20, 2005
• Invited presentation, “Image Restoration and Decomposition Via Bounded Total
  Variation and Negative Hilbert-Sobolev Spaces”, AMS Sectional Meetings, Special
  Session on Mathematical Methods for the Analysis of Images and High-Dimensional
  Data, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 8-9, 2005

POSTER SESSIONS

• “Image Segmentation of Streak-Camera Photographs for Tracking Detonation Waves”,
  Yanghong Huang, Linh Lieu, and Mingqiang Zhu, Graduate Student Summer Internship
  Program, Dept. of Math. UCLA, IPAM, October 16, 2005.
• “BV+H^{-s} models for image restoration and decompostion”, Linh Lieu and Luminita
  Vese, Scientific Computing Conference, Dept. of Math. Harvey Mudd College,
  November 5, 2005.

PROGRAMS ATTENDED

• Emphasis Week on Visual Recognition, Program on Mathematical, Computational and
  Statistical Aspects of Image Analysis at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute,
  Berkeley, CA., March 21 to 25, 2005.
• Emphasis Week on Perceptual Organization, Program on Mathematical, Computational
  and Statistical Aspects of Image Analysis at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute,
  Berkeley, CA., April 18 to 22, 2005.
• Mathematics in Brain Imaging, Graduate Summer School, Institute of Pure and Applied
  Mathematics at UCLA, July 12 to 23, 2004.

COLLABORATORS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Collaborators

• Luminita L. Vese, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
• Andrea Bertozzi, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
• Larry H. Hill, Scientist, Group DX-2: Materials Dynamics, Los Alamos National Lab, NM

Ph.D. Thesis Advisor

• Luminita L. Vese, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

SPECIAL SKILLS

• Programming skills: C, C++, Matlab
• Fourier Analysis of Images