Sanyou Mei

I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at University of Minnesota (UMN), 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 (USTC) and obtained B.S. degree in Mathematics in 2020.

Contact:

• E-mail: mei00035@umn.edu

Education

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Sept. 2020 - Present

• University of Science and Technology of China
  B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2020

Research interest:

• Convex optimization and complexity theory.

• Algorithms for monotone inclusion, variational inequality and minimax optimization

• Bilevel optimization and distributed optimization.

Preprints

• Sequential minimax optimization methods for bilevel optimization with strongly convex lower-level objective function
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei, Jin Zhang
  

• A first-order method for nonconvex-strongly-concave constrained minimax optimization
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
  

• Solving bilevel optimization via sequential minimax optimization
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
  

• A first-order augmented Lagrangian method for constrained minimax optimization
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
  

• Primal-dual extrapolation methods for monotone inclusions under local Lipschitz continuity
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei
  

• First-order penalty methods for bilevel optimization
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei, accepted by SIAM Journal on Optimization.
  

• Accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization with locally Lipschitz continuous gradient
  Zhaosong Lu, Sanyou Mei, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 33(3): 2275-2310, 2023.