Ph.D.
Lehigh University
Biography
Yutong Dai earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, under the supervision of Professor Daniel P. Robinson. He also works closely with Professor Lichao Sun.
His research interests include
- designing, analyzing and implementing algorithms for large scale non-convex non-smooth optimization problems arisen in machine learning and federated learning, and
- making machine learning and deep learning algorithms secure, private, and robust.
Interests
- Nonsmooth Optimization with Structured Sparsity
- Federated Learning
- Optimization in Machine Learning
- Multimodal Large Language Model
Education
Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, December, 2023
Lehigh University
M.S. in Statistics, May, 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Statistics (with honors), June, 2017
Sichuan University
