Ph.D. student
Lehigh University
Biography
Yutong is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, working under the supervision of Professor Daniel P. Robinson. He also has the fortune to work closely with Professor Lichao Sun.
His current research focuses on 1) designing, analyzing and implementing algorithms for large scale non-convex non-smooth optimization problems arisen in machine learning and federated learning; 2) making machine learning and deep learning algorithms secure, private, and robust.
Interests
- Nonsmooth Optimizaiton with Structured Sparsity
- Optimization in Machine Learning
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Federated Learning
Education
M.S. in Statistics, 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Statistics (with honors), 2017
Sichuan University
