Brief Biography
I am an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Mechanical Engineering departments at UC Berkeley. I work on interdisciplinary problems in optimization theory, machine learning, power systems, and control.
News
May 2024: Three members of our research group have completed their PhD exit seminars: 1) Ziye Ma will join the CS department at City University of Hong Kong as a tenure-track Assistant Professor; 2) Brendon Anderson will join the ME Department at California Polytechnic State University, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor; 3) Tanmay Gautam will join Microsoft Research as a research scientist.
October 2021: The paper “Efficient Global Optimization of Two-layer ReLU Networks: Adversarial Training and Quadratic-time Algorithms” by Yatong Bai, Tanmay Gautam, and myself received the INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up.
January 2018: Our tutorial session “Optimization and Machine Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications” has been accepted for the 2018 American Control Conference (contributors: Sam Coogan, Murat Arcak, Javad Lavaei, Richard Zhang, Cedric Josz, and Somayeh Sojoudi).
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