Group

Current Students

 

Chenyu Gao
Doctoral Student (2020-now)

Research interests: MM/EM algorithms, location-scale models, volatility models
Email: gaochy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Wenfu Xia
Doctoral Student (2021-now)

Research interests: First-order optimization, distributed optimization, scatter/covariance matrix estimation
Email: xiawf@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Mengting Chen
Master Student (2021-now)

Research interests: Optimization, bilinear inverse problems
Email: chenmt@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Cheng Cheng
Master Student (2021-now)

Research interests: Optimization, low-rank matrix estimation
Email: cc@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Quan Wei
Master Student (2021-now)

Research interests: Optimization, FDR control, covariance estimation
Email: weiquan@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Fengpei Li
Master Student (2022-now)

Research interests: MM/EM algorithms, regression and graphical models
Email: fengpeili@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Hongyuan Yang
Master Student (2022-now)

Research interests: Optimization, geometry of robust M-estimation
Email: yanghy@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Shanshan Zou
Master Student (2022-now)

Research interests: Optimization, structured covariance models
Email: shanshan.zou@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Wenbin Wang
Master Student (2023-now)

Research interests: Optimization, covariance matrix sensing
Email: wangwb2023@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Jun Zhang
Master Student (2023-now)

Research interests: Graph signal processing, graph neural networks
Email: junzhang@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

 

Wenfu Zhong
Master Student (2023-now)

Research interests: Optimization, sparse principal component analysis
Email: wenfuzhong@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Office: Rm. 1A-409, SIST Building

In addition, our group is also hosting several wonderful Research Interns, who are not listed.

Alumni

Zepeng Zhang
Master Student (2020-2023)
Dissertation: "Optimization-Induced Graph Neural Networks"
Current: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at EPFL, Switzerland

Yangzhuoran Yang
Visiting Student (2019-2020)
Current: Ph.D. in Statistics at Monash University, Australia

Tao Zhang
Research Assistant (2020)
Current: Ph.D. in Optimization at PolyU, Hong Kong

Yao Zhao
Research Assistant (2020)
Current: Ph.D. in Machine Learning at University of Arizona, USA

In addition, our group has also hosted numerous undergraduate students, many of whom have continued to be enrolled in top graduate programs. See UG students supervised.