Junren Chen

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Graduate Student
Department of Mathematics
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Office: RR212, Run Run Shaw Building
Email: chenjr58@connect.hku.hk


I am a final-year PhD student at Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong. My research interests lie in high-dimensional statistics, nonconvex optimization, mathematics of data science, signal processing, and machine learning. During my Ph.D., I focused on problems at the intersection of statistics, information and optimization, with a particular emphasis on estimation under nonlinear observations.

Selected Papers

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  • High Dimensional Statistical Estimation under Uniformly Dithered One-Bit Quantization.
    Junren Chen, Cheng-Long Wang, Michael K. Ng, Di Wang.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023.  [ieeearxiv]

  • Exact Thresholds for Noisy Non-Adaptive Group Testing.
    Junren Chen, Jonathan Scarlett.
    ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2025.  [arxivsiam]

  • A Parameter-Free Two-Bit Covariance Estimator with Improved Operator Norm Error Rate.
    Junren Chen, Michael K. Ng.
    Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 2025.  [arxivelseviermatlab]

  • One-Bit Phase Retrieval: Optimal Rates and Efficient Algorithms.
    Junren Chen, Ming Yuan.
    Preprint, 2024.  [arxivmatlab]

  • Optimal Quantized Compressed Sensing via Projected Gradient Descent.
    Junren Chen, Ming Yuan.
    Preprint, 2024.  [arxivmatlab]

  • Phase Retrieval of Quaternion Signal via Wirtinger Flow.
    Junren Chen, Michael K. Ng.
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2023.  [ieeematlab]

  • On Subsample Size of Quantile-Based Randomized Kaczmarz.
    Jian-Feng Cai, Junren Chen, Anna Ma, Tong Wu.
    Preprint, 2025.  [arxivmatlab]

  • Robust Instance Optimal Phase-Only Compressed Sensing.
    Junren Chen, Michael K. Ng, Jonathan Scarlett.
    Preprint, 2024.  [arxivmatlab]

  • Phase Transitions in Phase-Only Compressed Sensing.
    Junren Chen, Lexiao Lai, Arian Maleki.
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2025.  [arxiv]