Experience

Work Experience

• Postdoc Research Fellow                                Dec 2021 – Present
  

  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    

  • Advisors: Laura Balzano & Qing Qu
    

• Research Associate                                     Oct 2020 – Nov 2021
  

  • Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    

  • Advisor: Anthony Man-Cho So

Education

• Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management            2016 – 2020
  

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Advisor: Anthony Man-Cho So & Shiqian Ma

  • Thesis: Fast First-Order Methods for Structured Non-Convex Non-Smooth Problems with Provable Guarantees [Thesis]

• Bachelor in Engineering Management            2012 – 2016
  

  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing

Professional Service

• Conference Reviewer:

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2021, 2022

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2022, 2023

• Journal Reviewer:

  • SIAM Journal on Optimization (4 times)

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1 times)

  • Journal of Global Optimization (1 times)