Awards and Activities

Awards

1. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (UC Berkeley, top ≤10% student instructors). 2025

2. The Henry Lurie Family Fellowship (UC Berkeley). 2024

3. INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Competition (student track) Runner-Up Prize (2 out of 48 papers). 2021

4. UC Berkeley Graduate Division Block Grant Fellowship. 2021

5. Georgia Tech School of ECE Roger P. Webb ECE Senior Scholar Awards. 2021

Invited Talks

1. Guest lecture for the course “Optimization Theory and Machine Learning” at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI). 2024

2. NorCal Control Workshop. 2023

3. TBSI Poster Symposium. 2022

4. The Conference on Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA). 2021

Paper Reviews

1. The SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS)
   Total: 1 —— 2025: 1.

2. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
   Total: 2 —— 2025: 2.

1. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
   Total: 7 —— 2025: 3; 2024: 4.

2. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
   Total: 12 —— 2024: 6; 2023: 6.

3. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
   Total: 14 —— 2025: 6; 2024: 4; 2023: 4.

4. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
   Total: 6 —— 2023: 5; 2022: 1.

5. IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
   Total: 1 —— 2023: 1.