Talks

• Function-Free Optimization via Comparison Oracles
  • Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference, Lehigh University, PA, August 2026 (upcoming)
  • Foundations of Computational Mathematics (poster presentation), University of Vienna, Austria, July 2026 (upcoming)
  • Third Derivative-Free Optimization Symposium, Université de Montréal. June, 2026 (upcoming)
  • SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 2026 (upcoming)
  • INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2026
• PDCS: A Primal-Dual Large-Scale Conic Programming Solver with GPU Enhancements
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2025
  • cuOPT Team, NVIDIA, virtual, July 2025
  • Computational Robotics Group Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2025
• New Theory and New Practical Methods for Solving Large-Scale Linear and Conic Optimization slides
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting (Dantzig Dissertation Competition Session), Atlanta, GA, October 2025
  • PhD Thesis Defense, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2025
• Theoretical Foundations and Practical Improvements for Large-Scale Linear Programming slides
  • Data Science Lab Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2025
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, April 2025
  • Columbia University, New York, NY, February 2025
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 2025
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January 2025
  • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 2025
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, January 2025
  • NC State University, Raleigh, NC, January 2025
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, January 2025
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, December 2024
• Level-Set Geometry and Improving the Performance of PDHG for Linear Optimization slides
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting (Nicholson Student Paper Competition), Seattle, WA, October 2024
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2024
  • Cornell ORIE Young Researchers Workshop, Ithaca, NY, October 2024
  • OM Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2024
• Theoretical Complexity of PDHG for Linear Programs with Unique Optima slides
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting (Optimization Society Award Session), Atlanta, GA, October 2025
  • ARC Colloquium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, September 2025
  • Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA), Lehigh University, PA, August 2024
  • International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Montréal, Canada, July 2024
  • Conference in honor of Yinyu Ye’s retirement, Shanghai, China, July 2024
• Improving the Geometry of (Conic) Linear Optimization Problems for the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method (PDHG) slides
  • Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA), Lehigh University, PA, August 2024
  • INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Houston, TX, March 2024
  • LIDS Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February, 2024
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 2023
  • ORC Student Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2023
  • Invited formal talk at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, September 2023
  • Workshop on Modern Continuous Optimization, Cambridge, MA, August 2023
• Geometric Condition Measures for the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method for Linear Programming slides
  • SIAM Conference on Optimization (SIOPT), Seattle, WA, June 2023
  • ORC Student Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, March 2023
• Using Taylor-Approximated Gradients to Improve the Frank-Wolfe Method for Empirical Risk Minimization slides
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, October 2022
  • ORC Student Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2022
  • International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, July 2022
• From an Interior Point to A Corner Point: Smart Crossover slides
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, October 2022
• Interior-Point Methods Strike Back: Solving the Wasserstein Barycenter Problem slides
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2019
  • "Heart of the Machine" Seminar, Shanghai, China, October 2019
• Computing the Wasserstein Barycenter Efficiently: A Structured Linear System and Customized Algorithms
  • Seminar of New Advances in Theory and Application of ADMM, Shanghai, China, March 2019