Scholar
Yingyu Liang
Google Scholar ID: _RVvnS4AAAAJ
The University of Hong Kong
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,773
H-index
38
i10-index
87
Publications
20
Co-authors
32
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Recipient of the NSF CAREER award
- - Published multiple papers in top international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR
Research Experience
- - Associate Professor of IDS and CS at the University of Hong Kong
- - Junction Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (by courtesy)
- - Postdoc at Princeton, working with Sanjeev Arora
- - Former Assistant then Associate Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education
- - Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2014, advised by Nina Balcan and worked closely with Le Song
- - M.S. from Tsinghua University in 2010, advised by Jianmin Li and Bo Zhang
- - B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2008, advised by Jianmin Li and Bo Zhang
Background
- Research Interests: Machine learning, particularly providing theoretical foundations for modern machine learning models and designing efficient algorithms for real-world applications. Recent focuses include optimization and generalization in deep learning, language modeling, robust learning, and their applications.
