Email: ycloud777 at gmail.com
About me: I'm a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science at University of Rochester. Previously, I was a postdoc in in the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University (2022-2025). I got my PhD in Mathematics from Boston University in 2022, and my BA in Mathematics from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2016.
My phd thesis advisor is Solesne Bourguin https://math.bu.edu/people/bourguin/
My postdoc mentor at Florida State University is Lingjiong Zhu https://sites.google.com/view/lingjiongzhu
My postdoc mentor at University of Rochester is Jiaming Liang https://jiaming-liang.github.io/
My research interests (in no particular order):
Gradient flow, Stein variational gradient descent.
Stochastic localization and diffusion models.
Sampling and non-convex optimization via Langevin equations and its variants.
Generalization error of sampling and optimization algorithms.
Central limit theorems for deep neural networks.
Stein's method and limit theorems, Malliavin calculus, Markov diffusion operators and Dirichlet forms.
My CV (hosted on Google Drive)