Teaching

Instructor Georgia Tech

  • ISyE 6663: Nonlinear Optimization
    2025 Spring (4.45/5)

  • ISyE 6414: Regression Analysis
    2025 Fall (4.35/5), 2026 Spring

  • ISyE 7401: Advanced Statistical Modeling
    2026 Spring

Teaching Assistant UChicago

  • STAT 234: Statistical Models and Method
    Instructor: Yali Amit, Linda Brant Collins

  • STAT 244: Statistical Theory and Method I
    Instructor: Zheng (Tracy) Ke

  • STAT 245: Statistical Theory and Method II
    Instructor: Mei Wang

  • STAT 315: Stochastic Simulation
    Instructor: Daniel Sanz-Alonso

  • STAT 376: Machine Learning and Large-Scale Data Analysis
    Instructor: Yali Amit

Mentoring

I am super fortunate to closely work with a number of highly motivated and talented students from diverse backgrounds on various topics in statistics, optimization, and machine learning.

● PhD Students

Georgia Tech

  • Xinchen Du (ISyE)
  • Haoxuan Wang (ISyE)
  • Jianliang Ye (Math)

Other Institutions (work with their home advisors)

  • Yufei Fan (USC, Marshall)
  • Xiaoran Cheng (Penn State, Stats)
  • Yuchen Fang (UC Berkeley, Math)

● Undergraduate Students

  • Jingrong Guan (Shanghai Tech, Math)

● Past Students

NameMajorInstitutionTopicPosition
Xinchen DuStat, MSUChicagoOnline statistical inferencePhD, Georgia Tech
Xiaoran ChenStat, MSUChicagoModel-free real-time controlPhD, Penn State
Yuchen FangCAM, MSUChicagoConstrained stochastic optimizationPhD, UC Berkeley
Yihang GaoMath, PhDHKUInference of second-order methodsPostdoc, NUS
Ilgee HongStat, MSUChicagoMachine learning with constraintsPhD, Georgia Tech
Simiao JiaoStat, MSUChicagoInference of second-order methodsPhD, Duke
Wei KuangStat, PhDUChicagoCovariance matrix estimationMeta
Miao LiCAM, MSUChicagoManifold optimizationPhD, Georgia Tech
Heming LiuStat, MSUChicagoGraphical modelsPhD, Northwestern

Referee Service

I have served as a referee for several prestigious journals in the fields of mathematics, statistics, and optimization, including:

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Mathematical Programming
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
  • Electronic Journal of Statistics
  • Statistics & Probability Letters

I also actively serve as a reviewer for various machine learning conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AIStats, and more.