- Published paper 'Square-Root Minimum-Volume NMF' in the Proceedings of the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24)
- Presented at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium 2023 and received the Outstanding Session Presentation Award from the Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Department, Rice University
- Achieved the SIAM Student Travel Award for SDM24
Research Experience
- Towards Tuning-Free Minimum-Volume Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (REU STAT-DATASCI 2023, Rice University), with Dr. Eric C. Chi
- Shuffling Variance Reduction Stochastic Gradient Optimization, with Dr. Lam M. Nguyen (IBM Research) and Dr. Trang H. Tran (Lehigh ISE)
- Geodesics Nets - Existence and Construction, inspired by Steiner trees and bubble soap film
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 2023 - present; Bachelor's Degrees in Mathematics (with Department Honors) and Computer Science, Texas Christian University
Background
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rice University in Houston, TX, USA. I completed double bachelor degrees in Mathematics (with Department Honors) and Computer Science at Texas Christian University (TCU). My research interests lie between Optimization theory, Riemannian geometry, and Machine Learning.
Miscellany
My own favorite quote: 'Nothing is trivial in astute eyes.'