I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). My research interests lie in decision-making under uncertainty, with an intersection of optimization, RL, statistics, and causality, aiming to build new models and develop simple-to-implement methods with provable guarantees. I serve as an area chair for ICML and ICLR. Before joining Rutgers, I worked as a postdoc researcher at EPFL and ETH Zurich in Switzerland. I obtained PhD in Operations Research from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and bachelor in mathematics from Nankai University.

I am looking for motivated PhD students. Feel free to send me an email if you find anything interesting. I am a skier, swimmer, hiker, and I play tennis. We maintain a summary of complexity in optimization, including deterministic, finite-sum, and stochastic minimization as well as min-max problems.