Hello! Thanks for visiting my site. I am currently an Assistant Professor at Information Technology Management group at Scheller College of Business of Georgia Institute of Technology.
I am generally interested in multi-agent collaborated learning, with specific focus on design of optimization algorithms for multi-agent learning, economics and mechanisms for federated learning, and its business application including online finance and auctions.
Before joining Scheller, I graduated Operations, Information & Technology field at Stanford Graduate School of Business. I am fortunate to be co-advised by Professor Haim Mendelson and Professor Yinyu Ye. I completed my undergraduate study with degrees on B.A. in English Literature and B.Ec. in Economics at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and I completed my master study with degree on Economics at Duke University.
View my Curriculum Vitae here.
Contact me at mingxi.zhu at scheller.gatech.edu
Research Projects
Managing Randomization in the Multi-Block Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Quadratic Optimization
Mathematical Programming Computation , volume 13, (2021), with Kresimir Mihic, Yinyu Ye.
Check our solver here ! ( https://github.com/kmihic/RACQP )
How Small Amount of Data Sharing Benefits Distributed Optimization and Learning
with Yinyu Ye.
Best Paper award, "Order up! The Benefits of Higher-Order Optimization in Machine Learning" , NeurIPS workshop, 2022, New Orleans.
Major Revision at Management Science
Optimal Information Acquisition Strategies: The Case of Online Lending
With Haim Mendelson.
Design Information Disclosure under Bidder Heterogeneity in Online Advertising Auctions: Implications of Bid-Adherence Behavior
With Michelle Song.
Under review at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Near-Optimal Dynamic Pricing in Large Networks
With Ozan Candogan and Yuwei Luo.
Teaching
Instructor, MGT 2210, Information System & Digital Transformation (2024, Spring), Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
Instructor, MGT 8803, Special Issues of Information Systems (2024, Spring), Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
TA, MS&E 211 X, Introduction to Optimization (2021, Fall), Engineering School, Stanford University.
Student Evaluation ( 4.52/5.00 )
TA, OIT 652, Modeling (2021, Spring), Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
TA , OIT 356, Electronic Business ( 2021, Spring ), Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
TA , OIT 356, Electronic Business ( 2020, Spring ), Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Math Camp Instructor ( 2016, Fall ), Department of Economics, Duke University
Services
Reviewer for Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research
Student Advisor, MS&E Undergraduate Diversity in Research Program, MS&E Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, 2021 - 2022
Board Member, Stanford Graduate School Business Greater China Business Club, 2018 - 2019
Honors and Fellowships
The Institutional Venture Partners Fellowship Fund, 2020 - 2021
The David S. Tappan Jr. Fellowship Fund, 2019 - 2020
The Robert J. and Doreen D. Marshall Scholarship Fund, 2018 - 2019
George A. and Barbara Cull Jedenoff Fellowship, 2017 - 2018