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):
Sampling and non-convex optimization via Langevin equations and its variants.
Proximal samplers and more generally sampling algorithms with roots in optimization.
Generalization error of stochastic algorithms.
Stein's method, Malliavin calculus, Markov diffusion operators, Gamma calculus, regularity of laws.
My CV (hosted on Google Drive)