About me
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mathematical Foundations of AI within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology mentored by Prof. Wenjing Liao. I obtained my Ph.D. in Mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Ming-Jun Lai at University of Georgia. I also obtained a M.S. in Computer Science with Prof. Sheng Li (University of Virginia).
My research interests are foundational AI, transformers-based in-context learning theory, graph-based learning, manifold learning, mathematics of data science.
Click here for my CV and Google Scholar page. My Erdös number is 2.
Recent Events
Co-organized a minisymposium and presented at the SIAM Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, 07/2026
Presented at the 9th International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 05/2026
Presented at SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Minneapolis, MN, 03/2026
Presented at the AMS Spring Western Section Meeting, Boise State University, 03/2026
Presented at the Dynamics Days US, University of Arizona, 01/2026
Recipient of the SIAM Postdoctoral Support Program, 12/2025
Presented at the CBMS Conference: Research at the Interface of Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning, University of Houston, 12/2025
Presented at the Conference of Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Data Science (TAG-DS), UC San Diego, 12/2025
Co-organized a minisymposium and presented at the SIAM Central States Section Meeting, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 10/2025
Participated at the Research Collaboration Workshop in Science of Data and Mathematics (WiSDM) Conference, UNC Chapel Hill, 08/2025
Presented at the IPAM Workshop on Sampling, Inference, and Data-Driven Physical Modeling in Scientific Machine Learning, UCLA, 07/2025
Presented at the MINDS Seminar, UC San Diego, 05/2025
Employment
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, 08/2026 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, 08/2024 - 07/2026