I am looking for self-motivated PhD students (fully-funded) with strong mathematical ablities and (or) programming skills to solve challenging machine learning problems elegantly with mathematical analysis and empirical studies. The main technical skills we need include mathematical optimization, statistical learning theory, algorithms, and deep learning. If you are interested, please drop me an email with your CV and transcript, and apply our PhD program here. Undergrad and graduate student visitors are also welcome. This link provides an overview of our fast-growing GMU CS department.

My research interests are machine learning, optimization, learning theory, and deep learning. My goal is to design provably efficient algorithms for machine learning problems with strong empirical performance.