
Ph.D. Student
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Minnesota
Email: mei00035@umn.edu
Office: 235B Lind Hall
About Me
I am currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Minnesota, where I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Zhaosong Lu. I finished my undergraduate study in the School of the Gifted Young at University of Science and Technology of China and obtained B.S. degree in Mathematics in 2020.
I will join the Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor in this fall.
Education
University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Sept. 2020 -Present
M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2023
University of Science and Technology of China
B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2020
Research Interests
- Algorithm design and analysis for bilevel, minimax, stochastic, distributed, and online optimization
- Applications for data science, AI/machine learning, healthcare, and decision-making under uncertainty
Honors
INFORMS Optimization Society 2024 Student Paper Prize Honorable Mention
for the paper "Accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient" coauthored with Prof. Zhaosong Lu.
Research Papers
- Variance-reduced first-order methods for deterministically constrained stochastic nonconvex optimization with strong convergence guarantees (with Z. Lu and Y. Xiao), submitted.
- A first-order method for nonconvex-strongly-concave constrained minimax optimization (with Z. Lu), submitted.
- Solving bilevel optimization via sequential minimax optimization (with Z. Lu), submitted.
- A first-order augmented Lagrangian method for constrained minimax optimization (with Z. Lu), accepted by Mathematical Programming, 2024.
- Primal-dual extrapolation methods for monotone inclusions under local Lipschitz continuity (with Z. Lu), to appear in Mathematics of Operations Research, 2024.
- First-order penalty methods for bilevel optimization (with Z. Lu), SIAM Journal on Optimization, 34(2), 1937-1969, 2024.
- Accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient (with Z. Lu), SIAM Journal on Optimization, 33(3): 2275-2310, 2023.
Teaching
- IE 2021: Engineering Economics, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021, 2022, 2023.
- IE 3011: Optimization I, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021.
- IE 5531/MATH 5711: Engineering Optimization I, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2024.
- IE 5545: Decision Analysis, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2022.
- IE 5561: Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2022, 2023, 2024.
- IE 8564: Optimization for Machine Learning, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2022, 2024.