News
| September 2026 | My sole-authored paper, High-Probability Polynomial-Time Complexity of Restarted PDHG for Linear Programming, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research. |
| August 2026 | My new paper with Robert Freund, Symmetry-dependence in Rounding of a Convex Body, is now available on arXiv. |
| July 2026 | I started my new position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Northwestern IEMS. |
| July 2026 | I presented a poster at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) conference. Function-Free Optimization via Comparison Oracles |
| June 2026 | My sole-authored paper, Accessible Complexity Bounds for Restarted PDHG on Linear Programs with a Unique Optimizer, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research. |
| June 2026 | I presented a talk at the Third Derivative-Free Optimization Symposium (DFO26) Function-Free Optimization via Comparison Oracles |
| June 2026 | I presented a talk at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26) Function-Free Optimization via Comparison Oracles |
| June 2026 | I received an NSF travel award for young researchers to attend the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) conference. |
| April 2026 | My new paper with Katya Scheinberg, Function-Free Optimization via Comparison Oracles, is now available on arXiv. |
| March 2026 | My paper with Robert Freund, Computational Guarantees for Restarted PDHG for LP Based on "Limiting Error Ratios" and LP Sharpness, was accepted for publication in Mathematical Programming. |
| March 2026 | I presented a talk at the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference. Function-Free Optimization via Comparison Oracles |
| March 2026 | I co-chaired three sessions, Recent Advances in Derivative-Free Optimization I, II and III, at the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference. |
| November 2025 | I gave a guest lecture, Large-Scale Linear Programming Using the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method, in the MIT graduate course Introduction to Mathematical Programming. |
| October 2025 | My PhD dissertation, New Theory and New Practical Methods for Solving Large-Scale Linear and Conic Optimization, won the second place for the 2025 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. |
| October 2025 | I presented three talks at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Talk 1: New Theory and New Practical Methods for Solving Large-Scale Linear and Conic Optimization Talk 2: Accessible Theoretical Complexity of the Restarted Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method for Linear Programs with Unique Optima Talk 3: PDCS: a Primal-Dual Large-Scale Conic Programming Solver with GPU Enhancements |
| September 2025 | I gave a talk, Theoretical Complexity of the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method for Linear Programs, at the Georgia Tech ARC Colloquium. |
| September 2025 | My sole-authored paper, Accessible Theoretical Complexity of the Restarted Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method for Linear Programs with Unique Optima, was selected as the winner of the 2025 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize. NEWS |
| August 2025 | My PhD dissertation, New Theory and New Practical Methods for Solving Large-Scale Linear and Conic Optimization, was selected as a finalist for the 2025 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. |
| August 2025 | I started my new position as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech. |
| May 2025 | I received my PhD in Operations Research from MIT. |