Talks

Universal subgradient and proximal bundle methods for convex and strongly convex hybrid composite optimization [slides]
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Montréal, Canada, July 2024
NSF CompMath PI meeting, Seattle, WA, July 2024

Proximal Oracles for Optimization and Sampling [slides]
Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June 2024
Peking University, Beijing, China, May 2024
Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May 2024
INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Houston, TX, March 2024

Variance Reduction and Low Sample Complexity in Stochastic Optimization via Proximal Point Methods [slides]
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 2024
SIAM-NNP Annual Meeting, Newark, NJ, October 2023
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 2023
International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Davis, CA, July 2023
SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, WA, May-June 2023

A Universal Proximal Framework for Optimization and Sampling [slides]
Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September 2023
Goergen Institute for Data Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, February 2023

A Proximal Algorithm for Sampling from Nonsmooth Potentials [slides]
Winter Simulation Conference, Virtual, December 2022

A Proximal Sampling Algorithm [slides]
Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers University, Virtual, November 2022
SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, San Diego, CA, September 2022

A Single Cut Proximal Bundle Method for Stochastic Convex Composite Optimization [slides]
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, October 2022
International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Bethlehem, PA, July 2022

Studies Integrating Optimization and Sampling under Nonsmoothness
Peking University, Virtual, November 2021
Rice University, Houston, TX, December 2021
Tsinghua University, Virtual, December 2021
City University of Hong Kong, Virtual, December 2021
University of Oxford, Virtual, December 2021
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Virtual, December 2021
Rutgers University, Virtual, January 2022
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, January 2022
EPFL, Virtual, January 2022

Advances in Nonconvex Optimization, Nonsmooth Optimization, and High-dimensional Sampling
Honk Kong University of Science and Technology, Virtual, November 2021
National University of Singapore, Virtual, November 2021

A unified analysis of a class of proximal bundle methods for solving hybrid convex composite optimization problems [video] [slides]
East Coast Optimization Meeting, Virtual, March 2022
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, October 2021

A Proximal Algorithm for Sampling from Non-smooth Potentials [poster]
Poster Presentation, Georgia Statistics Day, Atlanta, GA, October 2021

Average Curvature FISTA for Nonconvex Smooth Composite Optimization Problems [slides]
Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA), Bethlehem, PA, August 2021

Early Termination of Convex QP Solvers in Mixed-Integer Model Predictive Control for Real-Time Decision Making [video] [slides] [poster]
Oral Presentation, American Control Conference (ACC), Virtual, May 2021
Poster Presentation, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), Virtual, May 2021
Poster Presentation, Integer Programming and Combinotorial Optimization (IPCO), Virtual, May 2021

A FISTA-type average curvature accelerated composite gradient method for nonconvex optimization problems [poster]
12th OPT Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT2020), Virtual, December 2020

A Proximal Bundle Variant with Optimal Iteration-complexity for a Large Range of Prox Stepsizes [slides]
Department of Applied Mathematics, FGV, Virtual, December 2021
SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP21), Virtual, July 2021
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Virtual, November 2020
ISyE PhD Student Seminar in Georgia Tech, Virtual, October 2020
Optimization Interest Group Meeting, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, July 2020

An Average Curvature Accelerated Composite Gradient Method for Nonconvex Smooth Composite Optimization Problems [slides]
Alice and John Jarvis Ph.D. Student Paper Competition, Georgia Tech, September 2021
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2019
DOS Seminar in Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, October 2019

A Doubly Accelerated Inexact Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex Composite Optimization Problems [slides]
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2019
Machine Learning Theory Reading Group in Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, April 2019
ISyE PhD Student Seminar in Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, November 2018
DOS Seminar in Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, November 2018

Ship Roll Behaviour in Large Amplitude Beam Waves [slides]
International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, St. Johns, NL, Canada, June 2015 (OMAE2015)