My research interests generally include machine learning, deep learning, and optimization, with application in quantitative trading, data science, and applications.
“Deep Hyperspherical Learning”
Weiyang Liu, Yan-Ming Zhang, Xingguo Li, Zhiding Yu, Bo Dai, Tuo Zhao, and Le Song Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2017 (*Spotlight*)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, September 2018 — Present
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Supervisor: Prof. Sanjeev Arora
Visiting Graduate Scholar, March 2017 — April 2018
School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Prof. Tuo Zhao
Visiting Researcher, August 2016 — September 2016
IBM Research Almaden
Host: Prof. David P. Woodruff
Visiting Graduate Scholar, May 2016 — August 2016
Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Prof. Raman Arora
Graduate Research Assistant, September 2013 — July 2018
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Supervisor: Prof. Jarvis Haupt
(March 2018) I was awarded IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship. (Declined and joined the Princeton University)
(August 2017) I was awarded 2017-18 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
(July 2017) Out paper “Target Based Hyperspectral Demixing via Generalized Robust PCA” was in the Best Student Paper Award Finalist at the 2017 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar).
(January 2016) Our paper “The picasso Package for Nonconvex Regularized M-estimation in High Dimensions in R” received the Best Student Paper Award from the American Statistical Association Statistical Computing Section.
(November 2015) Our paper “Locating Salient Group-Structured Image Features via Adaptive Compressive Sensing” received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2015 Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP).
(Summer of 2014 — 2016) I was awarded Google Summer of Code.
(May 2013) I received the Outstanding Graduate Award of Class 2013 form the Department of of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota Duluth.