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Lieven De Lathauwer

Lieven De Lathauwer

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Mathematics
Belgium
2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
59
Citations
21874
World Ranking
576
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2017 - SIAM Fellow For fundamental contributions to theory, computation, and application of tensor decompositions.
  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to signal processing algorithms using tensor decompositions

Overview

Lieven De Lathauwer is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, specializing in research spanning computer science, mathematics, and engineering. Their work prominently focuses on computational mathematics, computational mechanics, and signal processing, with additional contributions to computational theory, artificial intelligence, and related fields.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including tensor decomposition and applications, sparse and compressive sensing techniques, blind source separation techniques, matrix theory and algorithms, model reduction and neural networks, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, as well as computational physics and Python applications.

Lieven De Lathauwer has published numerous papers in various academic venues. Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • "Factorizer: A scalable interpretable approach to context modeling for medical image segmentation," 2022, Medical Image Analysis
  • "Computing Large-Scale Matrix and Tensor Decomposition With Structured Factors: A Unified Nonconvex Optimization Perspective," 2020, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "On uniqueness and computation of the decomposition of a tensor into multilinear rank-$ terms," 2020, Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • "Combining thermodynamics with tensor completion techniques to enable multicomponent microstructure prediction," 2020, npj Computational Materials
  • "A Second-Order Method for Fitting the Canonical Polyadic Decomposition With Non-Least-Squares Cost," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with De Lathauwer include Nico Vervliet, Eric Evert, Michiel Vandecappelle, Nicolas Gillis, and Ignat Domanov.

They have contributed extensively to leading publication venues with multiple papers published in:

  • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • 2021 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

Lieven De Lathauwer has received recognition through awards such as:

  • SIAM Fellow in 2017 for contributions to the theory, computation, and application of tensor decompositions
  • IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to signal processing algorithms using tensor decompositions

Best Publications

  • A Multilinear Singular Value Decomposition

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Bart De Moor;Joos Vandewalle

  • On the Best Rank-1 and Rank-( R 1 , R 2 ,. . ., R N ) Approximation of Higher-Order Tensors

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Bart De Moor;Joos Vandewalle

  • Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning

    Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos;Lieven De Lathauwer;Xiao Fu;Kejun Huang

  • Tensor Decompositions for Signal Processing Applications: From two-way to multiway component analysis

    Andrzej Cichocki;Danilo Mandic;Lieven De Lathauwer;Guoxu Zhou

  • Decompositions of a Higher-Order Tensor in Block Terms—Part II: Definitions and Uniqueness

    Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Signal Processing based on Multilinear Algebra

    Lieven De Lathauwer

  • A Link between the Canonical Decomposition in Multilinear Algebra and Simultaneous Matrix Diagonalization

    Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Optimization-Based Algorithms for Tensor Decompositions: Canonical Polyadic Decomposition, Decomposition in Rank-$(L_r,L_r,1)$ Terms, and a New Generalization

    Laurent Sorber;Marc Van Barel;Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Decompositions of a Higher-Order Tensor in Block Terms—Part III: Alternating Least Squares Algorithms

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Dimitri Nion

  • Computation of the Canonical Decomposition by Means of a Simultaneous Generalized Schur Decomposition

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Bart De Moor;Joos Vandewalle

  • Learning with tensors: a framework based on convex optimization and spectral regularization

    Marco Signoretto;Quoc Tran Dinh;Lieven Lathauwer;Johan A. Suykens

  • An introduction to independent component analysis

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Bart De Moor;Joos Vandewalle

  • Dimensionality reduction in higher-order signal processing and rank-(R1,R2,…,RN) reduction in multilinear algebra

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Joos Vandewalle

  • Structured Data Fusion

    Laurent Sorber;Marc Van Barel;Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Unconstrained Optimization of Real Functions in Complex Variables

    Laurent Sorber;Marc Van Barel;Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality Using Decompositions of Incomplete Tensors: Tensor-based scientific computing in big data analysis

    Nico Vervliet;Otto Debals;Laurent Sorber;Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Decompositions of a Higher-Order Tensor in Block Terms—Part I: Lemmas for Partitioned Matrices

    Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Fetal electrocardiogram extraction by source subspace separation

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Bart De Moor;Joos Vandewalle

  • On the Uniqueness of the Canonical Polyadic Decomposition of Third-Order Tensors---Part I: Basic Results and Uniqueness of One Factor Matrix

    Ignat Domanov;Lieven De Lathauwer

  • Independent component analysis and (simultaneous) third-order tensor diagonalization

    L. de Lathauwer;B. de Moor;J. Vandewalle

  • Tensor-based techniques for the blind separation of DS-CDMA signals

    Lieven De Lathauwer;Joséphine Castaing

  • On the Uniqueness of the Canonical Polyadic Decomposition of Third-Order Tensors---Part II: Uniqueness of the Overall Decomposition

    Ignat Domanov;Lieven De Lathauwer

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart De Moor
Bart De Moor KU Leuven
Pierre-Antoine Absil
Pierre-Antoine Absil Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Comon
Pierre Comon Grenoble Alpes University
Athina P. Petropulu
Athina P. Petropulu Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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