(Nov 2025) I will be serving as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026, AISTATS 2026 and ICML 2026.
(Sep 2025) One paper about adaptive hierarchical optimization was accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to my students Xiaochuan and Jie!
(Aug 2025) Glad to give an invited TedX talk about "how language models learn". Check the video.
(May 2025) One paper was accepted by ICML 2025. Congratulations to my student Michael and our collaborators!
(March/April 2025) Glad to give invited talks about "Beyond Black-Box Analysis: Understanding the Role of Local Updates in Distributed Learning" at UMN and KAUST. Check the video.
(Feb 2025) I will be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
(Jan 2025) Two papers were accepted by ICLR 2025. Congratulations to my student Michael and our collaborators!
(Nov 2024) I will be serving as an Area Chair for ICML 2025.
(Sep 2024) Two papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations to my students Michael, Xiaochuan, and Jie!
(Sep 2024) I will be serving as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2025.
(Aug 2024) Glad to give an invited talk at Lehigh University.
(May 2024) I will be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024.
(May 2024) Two papers were accepted by ICML 2024. Congratulations to my students!
(Feb 2024) Glad to give an invited talk at Virginia Tech CS Seminar Series about our recent work on optimization for deep autoregressive models.
(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!
