In October 2024, he received the prestigious INFORMS Computing Society Prize for his work on Riemannian optimization. Throughout 2025, multiple papers were accepted for publication in top-tier conferences and journals like NeurIPS, ICLR, etc. In May 2025, he was honored with the Editorial Contribution Award from Springer Nature.
Research Experience
He serves as a Senior Area Chair or Area Chair for several international conferences such as NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, AISTATS 2025, and AAAI 2025. Additionally, he is an editorial board member of the SIAM Journal on Optimization.
Background
Professor with research interests in computational applied mathematics and operations research, as well as electrical and computer engineering. He is also affiliated with the Ken Kennedy Institute and the Center for Computational Finance & Economic Systems.