Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD in Social and Engineering Systems (SES) & Statistics, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
Grade: 5.0/5.0
Selected Courses: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Network Science, Fundamentals of Statistics, Econometric Data Science, Fundamentals of Probability.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
M.Phil in Operations Research
Supervisor: Anthony Man-Cho So
Thesis: First-order Algorithms for Computational Economics Slides
Thesis Committee Members: Anthony Man-Cho So, Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Viet Anh Nguyen
Grade: 3.93/4.0
Tongji University
B.S. in Mathematics, Elite Program (2023.9)
Thesis: Stiefel流形上的优化问题及其半定松弛算法
Grade: 4.85/5.0 (1/53)
Selected Awards
- MIT Presidential Fellowship
- CUHK Postgraduate Scholarship
- CUHK Reaching Out Award
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award
- Shanghai Outstanding Graduate
- Shanghai Scholarship
- National Scholarship
Academic Service
Reviewer
- Journals
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IISE Transactions
- Conferences
- ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, STOC
Talks
Bridging Convex and Nonconvex Approaches: Geodesic Strong Convexity of QCQPs from Tightness and Strict Complementarity of SDR
2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, Nov. 2026
Interpretable Time Series Imputation via Hankel Lifting and Robust Regularization
2026 INFORMS TSL Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA, Jul. 2026
FrontierOR: Benchmarking LLMs’ Capacity for Efficient Algorithm Design in Large-Scale Optimization
Slides ↗AIETO Online Talk
LLMs for Operations Research: Benchmarking and Efficient Algorithms
36th Annual POMS Conference, Reno, USA
Accelerated Price Adjustment for Fisher Markets with Exact Recovery of Competitive Equilibrium
Slides ↗INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Atlanta, USA, Mar. 2026
Conference on Web and Internet Economics, New Brunswick, USA, Dec. 2025
Computing Competitive Equilibrium for Chores: Linear Convergence and Lightweight Iteration
Slides ↗Graduate Forum of the Mathematical Programming Branch of OR Society China, Sichuan, China, Nov. 2024
Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Dec. 2024
Probe-Free Low-Rank Intervention
Slides ↗The 15th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, Jan. 2025
2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New Mexico, USA, Apr. 2025
Teaching
SEEM 3650 – Fundamentals in Decision and Data Analytics
2024 Spring, 2025 Spring
SEEM 3440 – Operations Research II
2023 Fall, 2024 Fall
Students Working with Me
Dongxuan He
Purdue Undergrad, 2026 Summer
Zhiyun Guo
SJTU Undergrad, 2026 Summer
Wenchu Zhang
Tongji PhD, 2025-2026, Paper
Outside Research
I enjoy a wide range of sports, especially team sports. I play soccer (football), basketball, and tennis. I am a fan of Los Angeles Lakers and FC Barcelona. I play sports video games, e.g., FC series, NBA2k series.
I have played the drum kit and marimba since I was six.