Meetings & Services

Meetings organized

• (with Tinran Gao) Minisymposium on Numerical Differential Geometry, 2019 SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Bern, Switzerland (2019)

• (with Tingran Gao) Minisymposium on Data Science with Tools from Applied Algebra and Geometry, 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA (2018)

Invited talks

• • Conference on Applied Geometry for Data Sciences, Chongqing, China (2022)

  • Algebraic geometry and complexity theory workshop, Warsaw, Poland (2022)

  • Topics in Algebra, Topology, Etc., Research Seminar (TATERS), Boise State University, Idaho, USA (2021)

  • Minisymposium on Algebra and Geometry of Tensors: structured tensors, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic geometry, College Station, Texas, USA (2021)

  • Minisymposium on Linear Algebra and Differential Geometry, SIAM conference on Applied Linear Algebra, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (2021) 

  • Data Science Seminar at the Oxford Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (2021)

  • Minisymposium on Tensors, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Bern, Switzerland (2019)

  •  Minisymposium on Numerical Differential Geometry, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Bern, Switzerland (2019)

  • Computational and Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2018)

  • Minisymposium on Geometry of Tensors, 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA (2018)

  • Session on Polynomial and Tensor Optimization, 23rd Minisymposium on Mathematical Programming, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (2018)

  • 7 th International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (2018)

  • Minisymposium on Tensor Analysis, Computation, and Applications, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, HongKong, China (2018)

  • The 2017 Korea-China International Conference on Matrix Theorem and Application, Sungkyunkwan university, Suwon, Korea (2017)

  • Minisymposium on Tensors: From Algebra to Applications, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2017)

  • Minisymposium on Geometry and Computational Challenges in Data Science, SIAM Annual Meeting, David Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2017)

  • Meeting of the International Linear Algebra Society, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA (2017)

  • Algebra Seminar, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2017)

  • Householder Symposium XX on Numerical Linear Algebra, the Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (2017)

  • Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2017)

  • Applied Algebra Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (2017)

  • Optimization Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA (2017)

  • Scientific and Statistical Computing Seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2016)

  • AMS Special Session on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (2016)

  • International Conference on Tensor, Matrix and Their Applications, Chern Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (2016)

  • Applied Mathematics seminar, Peking University, Beijing, China (2016)

  • AMS Special Session on Tensor Decompositions and Secant Varieties,  Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, Washington, USA (2016)

  • Minisymposium on Matrix and Tensor Decompositions and Applications, SIAM conference on Applied linear algebra, Atlanta, Geogia, USA (2015)

  • Minisymposium on Aspects of Grassmann Manifolds With a view towards Applications, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea (2015)

  • Minisymposium on Tensor Decomposition: Ideals meet Applications, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, 

  • National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea (2015)

  • Minisymposium on Spectral Theory of Tensors and Tensor Rank, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, 

  • National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea (2015)

  • Plenary Speaker, Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2015)

  • Computational Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (2014)

  • Algebraic Geometry Fellow's Seminar, Simons Institute, Berkeley, California, California, USA (2014)

  • AMS Sectional Meeting: Algebraic statistics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA (2014)

  • NIMS thematic program: Applied algebraic geometry, Daejon, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, South Korea (2014)

  • Colloquium, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA (2014)

  • SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (2013)

  • ICTP Workshop: Geometry of matrix, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (2013)

  • MRC Workshop: Geometry and Representation Theory Related to Geometric Complexity and Other Variants of P v. NP, Snowbird, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (2012)

  • Applied algebra Seminar, Pennsylvania state University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA (2012)

  • Mathematical Aspects of P v. NP and variants, The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (2011)

  • SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (2011)

  • Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (2009)

Conferences and workshops

• Simons Institute Workshop: Tensors in Computer Science and Geometry Reunion, Berkeley, California, USA (2015)

• Simons Institute Workshop: Tensors in Computer Science and Geometry, Berkeley, California, USA (2014)

• Simons Institute Workshop: Solving Polynomial Equations, Berkeley, California, USA (2014)

• AIM workshop: Modern Applications of Homology and Cohomology, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2013)

• Geometry and Representation theory of tensors for computer science, statistics and other areas, MSRI summer graduate workshop, Berkeley, California, USA (2008)

Services

• Refereed for  

1. Foundations of Computational Mathematics

2. Advances in Mathematics

3. Numerische Mathmatik

4. Journal of Machine Learning Research

5. SIAM Journal on Optimization

6. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and its Applications

7. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

8. SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry

9. Journal of Scientific Computing

10. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

11. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

12. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

13. The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

14. Journal of Algebra

15. Linear Algebra and its Applications

16. Science China Mathematics

17. Linear and Multilinear Algebra

18. Applied Mathematics and Computation

19. Annals of Functional Analysis

20. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

21. Journal of Multivariate Analysis

22. Journal of Inequalities and Applications

23. Information Processing Letters

24. Numerical Algorithms

25. Applied Numerical Mathematics

26. Computational Optimization and Applications

27. Advances in Applied Clifford Algebra

• Reviewer for 

1. zbMATH

2. Mathematical Review

• Supervised 

1. Peng Liu (Ph.D. Student at Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2. Yu Wang (Master student at Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Teaching experiences

University of Chicago (2012 - 2015) L.E. Dickson Instructor

• Lecturer, Honor calculus II, Winter 2014

• Lecturer, Honor calculus I, Fall 2013

• Lecturer, Calculus III, Fall 2013

• Lecturer, Introduction to analysis and linear algebra, Spring 2013

• Lecturer, Real analysis in Rn, Winter 2012

Texas A&M University (2007 - 2012) Student/Teaching Assistant

• Teaching Assistant, Calculus II, Fall 2011

• Teaching Assistant, Calculus II, Summer 2011

• Grader, Geometry and Topology, Spring 2011

• Grader, Number theory, Fall 2010

• Teaching Assistant, Preparation for qualifying exam, Summer 2010

• Teaching Assistant, Calculus III, Spring 2010