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Mingyi Hong

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
Google Scholar Page

Contact Information

Office: 6-109 Keller Hall
TEL: (612)-625-3505
Email: mhong at umn.edu

Jiaxiang Li

Email: jxjli@ucdavis.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetest: Mathematical Programming, Zeroth-Order Algorithm, Foundation Model Training and Alignment

Ioannis Tsaknakis

Email: tsakn001@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: Machine Learning, Optimization, Min-Max Problems

Hadi Reisizadeh

Email: hadir@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetest: Distributed Optimization, Machine Unlearning

Quan Wei

Email: wei00355@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: LLM Quantization, Agent

Xinnan Zhang

Email: zhan9359@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: LLM Alignment, Reinforcement Learning

Jon Peng

Email: peng0504@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: Diffusion models

Xiaotian Jiang

Email: JIAN0851@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: Bilevel Optimization

Bingqing Song

Email: song0409@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: Statistical Learning, Machine Learning for Communication

Siliang Zeng

Email: zeng0176@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Interetst: Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models Learning, Alignment

Xinwei Zhang

Current: Postdoctoral fellow at USC

Haoran Sun

Current: Meta

Prashant Kanduri

Current: Assistant Professor at Wayne State University

Email: khanduri.prashant@wayne.edu

Xiangyi Chen

Current: Pinterest

Email: chen5719@umn.edu
Office: 5-149 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Intertest: Machine Learning, Optimization, Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Songtao Lu

Google Scholar Citation

Email: lus@umn.edu

Current: Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yijian Zhang

Current: Data Scientist at Gap Corp.

Qingjiang Shi

Google Scholar Citation
Email: qing.j.shi@gmail.com
Current: Professor at Tongji University

Davood Hajinezhad

Email: davood.hajinezhad(at)duke(dot)edu
Current: Research Scientist at Fidelity

Ziping Zhao

Email: ziping.zhao@ust.hk
Current: Assistant Professor at Shanghai Tech

Mostafa Amin-Naseri (joint supervised with Stephen Gilbert)

Email: aminnas@iastate.edu

Andre Fristo

Email: asfristo@iastate.edu

Chase Grimm

Email: cmgrimm@iastate.edu