Tong Ding

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Publications

1. Matrix Analysis from Shallow ReLU Neural Network Least-Squares Approximations, In preparation,  2025

2. Z. Cai, T. Ding, M. Liu, X. Liu, and J. Xia.  A Structure-Guided Gauss-Newton Method for Shallow ReLU Neural Network  (submitted to SISC), 2024, arXiv:2404.05064 

Selected Talks

• Matrix Analysis and Fast Solvers in Neural Networks,  (minisymposium), 10/2025
  SIAM Central States Section Annual Meeting, Fayetteville,  AR, 

• A Structure-Guided Gauss-Newton Method for Shallow ReLU Neural Network,  (minisymposium), 6/2024
  International Conference On Preconditioning Techniques For Scientific and Industrial Applications,  Atlanta, GA

Selected Posters

• Matrix Analysis for Shallow ReLU Neural Network Least-Squares Approximations, 2025
  NSF Computational Mathematics PI Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 

• Fast Solvers for Neural Network Least-squares Approximations, 2024
  NSF Computational Mathematics PI Meeting, Seattle, WA

Professional Activities

•  President, SIAM Purdue Student Chapter,  2024 – Present

  • Organized annual student conferences (speakers, budget, logistics)

  • Co-ran Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics  (CCAM) lunch seminars

• Mentor, Women in Science Program, 2018 – 2019

  • Mentored first-year students

  • Supported retention and inclusion in STEM.

Awards

• SIAM Student Travel Award, SIAM Central States Section Annual Meeting,  2025

• T. T. Moh Graduate Scholarship Fund, 2019, 2024

• Spira Undergraduate Research Award, 2019

• Jandos Scholarship,  2018

• Jean E. Rubin Memorial Scholarship, 2017, 2018