Contact:

e-mail: ylanda@math.ucla.edu
Office: MS 7630

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Mathematics
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Education:

UCLA Applied Math PhD: April 2008
UCLA Applied Math BS, Specialization in Computing: 2003
UCLA Design|Media Arts BA: 2003

Current Research:

  • Visibility of point clouds and exploratory path planning (with R.Tsai)
  • Adaptive source detection problems (with R.Tsai)

Past Research:

  • Singularities in Euler's equation for axisymmetric flow (with R. Caflisch)
  • Asymptotic scaling limit of point island models for epitaxial growth, (with C. Ratsch, R. Vardavas)
  • Surface reconstruction from unorganized data (with L. Vese)

Publications and Conference Proceedings:

Y. Landa, "Visibility of point clouds and exploratory path planning in unknown environments", PhD thesis (April 2008), pdf

Y. Landa and R. Tsai, "Visibility of point clouds and exploratory path planning in unknown environments", submitted to Communications in Mathematical Sciences (2008), pdf

Y. Landa, D. Galkowski, Y. R. Huang, A. Joshi, C. Lee, K. K. Leung, G. Malla, J. Treanor, V. Voroninski, A. L. Bertozzi, and Y.-H. R. Tsai, "Robotic Path Planning and Visibility with Limited Sensor Data", American Control Conference 2007, pdf, poster ppt

Y. Landa, R. Tsai, and L.-T. Cheng, "Visibility of Point Clouds and Mapping of Unknown Environments", Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (2006) 1014-1025 pdf

C. Ratsch, Y. Landa, and R. Vardavas, "The Asymptotic Scaling Limit of Point Island Models for Epitaxial Growth", Surface Science 578 (2005) 196-202 pdf

Teaching:

Fall 2006: Math 135 Ordinary Differential Equations, Prof. A. Haddad
Winter 2006: Math 266B Applied Partial Differential Equations, Prof. R. Caflisch
Spring 2005: PIC 10A Introduction to Programming (C++), Prof. C. Li
Winter 2005: Math 157 Software Techniques for Scientific Computation, Prof. C. Anderson

Links:

UCLA Math
UCLA Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM) reports
Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

UCLA Design|Media Arts
Jabberwocky
My art

Last updated: May 2008