Awards and Honors

• Prize-winning team in ARPA-E Grid Optimization Challenge 2, Oct. 2021
• Third-place team in ARPA-E Grid Optimization Challenge 1, Feb. 2020
• McLean Fellowship Stipend, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
• ISyE Stipend, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018

Invited and Contributed Talks

• Dual Descent ALM and ADMM
  • ISyE Ph.D. Student Seminar, GA, USA, Nov. 2021
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 2022
• Algorithms for DC Programs Based on DME Smoothing
  • SIAM Conference on Optimization, Virtual, Jul. 2021
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, Oct. 2021
  • INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, SC, USA, Mar. 2022
• Decomposition Methods for Global Solutions of Mixed-Integer Linear Programs
  • Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO) Workshop (poster), Virtual, May 2021
  • Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop (poster), Virtual, May 2021
  • SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, WA, USA, May 2023
• A Two-level ADMM Algorithm for AC OPF with Global Convergence Guarantees
  • Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) Meeting (poster)
    • Phoenix, AZ, USA, Dec. 2017
    • Wichita, KS, USA, May 2018,
  • Georgia Tech Workshop on Electric Energy Systems and Optimization (poster)
    • Atlanta, GA, USA, Nov. 2018
    • Atlanta, GA, USA, Nov. 2019
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Virtual, October 2020
• Distributed Algorithms for Sparse Regression
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA, Oct. 2019
• A Two-level Distributed Algorithm for Nonconvex Constrained Optimization
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Oct. 2018
  • International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Berlin, Germany, Aug. 2019

Academic Services

• Session co-chair for Recent Advances in Stochastic Programs and Structured Discrete Optimization, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, WA, USA, May 2023
• Session chair for Forecasting/Accounting and Nonlinear Programming, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, Oct. 2021
• Co-chair of the session Distributed and Decentralized Optimization, ICCOPT 2019, Berlin, Germany
• Reviewer for
  • Optimization: SIOPT, MOR, MPC, JOTA, IJOO, Quantum
  • Power System: IEEE (TAC, TCNS, TII, TPWRS, TSG, L-CSS), IET, ACC, CDC
  • Machine Learning: AISTATS 21, NeurIPS 22