Hello! I am a third-year PhD student of Operations Research at Cornell University, where I am lucky to be advised by Professor Damek Davis. I am currently doing an internship at Meta AI, working with my wonderful mentor Lin Xiao to develop efficient optimizers for LLM and vision transformers.

I am interested in studying the mathematics of learning, especially the interplay of optimization, statistics, machine learning and numerical linear algebra. During my PhD, Damek and I have been developing and analyzing a fast condition-number-free algorithm for a wide family of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems. I am very fortunate to be mentored by Professor Steve Vavasis, and we are studying the mathematics of sum-of-norms clustering.

I received my degree of MMath in Combinatorics and Optimization at University of Waterloo, where I had the privilege to be advised Professor Steve Vavasis on sum-of-norms clustering for my thesis. Prior to my graduate studies, I obtained my BEng in Engineering Systems and Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Outside of office, I enjoy hiking, rock climbing and going out for adventures with my partner Zhi (click out his instagram for beautiful photos we took during our trips). If you have a keen interest in promoting fairness within societal systems and are contemplating potential solutions, please check out some fascinating work by Zhi and see how he identifies and addresses disparities using quantitative methods.