News

  • (Dec 2023) I was selected in the New Faculty Highlights Program at AAAI 2024. I will present our recent work on algorithmic foundation of federated learning with sequential data.
  • (Oct 2023) Glad to give invited talks at INFORMS annual meeting, Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rensseleaer Polytechic Institute about our recent work on optimization for unbounded smooth functions. Here is the slides.
  • (Sep 2023) Three papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2023. Congratulations to Michael, Jie and Yajie!
  • (Sep 2023) Glad to give an invited talk at Business Analytics Department, University of Iowa.
  • (Aug 2023) I will be serving as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2024.
  • (Apr 2023) I am happy to give an invited talk at Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology about "Federated Learning: Algorithm Design and Applications". Here is the slides.
  • (Mar 2023) I will be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2023.
  • (Mar 2023) Glad to give an invited talk at SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Annual Meeting about new federated and adaptive optimization algorithms for deep learning with unbounded smooth landscape.
  • (Mar 2023) Glad to give an invited talk at IBM Almaden Research Center about new federated and adaptive optimization algorithms for deep learning with unbounded smooth landscape.
  • (Feb 2023) Glad to give an invited talk at Google about new federated and adaptive optimization algorithms for deep learning with unbounded smooth landscape.
  • (Jan 2023) One paper was accepted by ICLR 2023. Congratulations to my students!
  • (Nov 2022) Two NeurIPS 2022 papers Communication-Efficient Distributed Gradient Clipping and Bilevel Optimization were selected as spotlight presentations (5% acceptance rate).
  • (Sep 2022) Three papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2022. Congratulations to my students and co-authors.
  • (May 2022) One paper was accepted by ICML 2022. Congratulations to my students and co-authors.
  • (Mar 2022) Gave a talk at CISS at Princeton University about nonconvex-nonconcave min-max optimization and applications in GANs.
  • (Feb 2022) We will give a tutorial on CVPR 2022 about "Deep AUC Maximization". Here is the website.
  • (Feb 2022) Two papers were accepted by ALT 2022.
  • (Sep 2021) One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2021.
  • (Aug 2021) Joined in CS @ GMU as an assistant professor.
  • (June 2021) The paper about nonconvex-nonconcave min-max optimization has been accepted by JMLR.
  • (Sep 2020) Two papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2020, with one Spotlight presentation (3% acceptance rate).
  • (May 2020) One paper was accepted by ICML 2020.
  • (Dec 2019) Two papers were accepted by ICLR 2020.
  • (Sep 2018) Three papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2018.
  • (May 2018) One paper was accepted by ICML 2018.