Jun 2020

Manuscript: "Gradient Methods with Dynamic Inexact Oracles."
Update (Aug 2020): Accepted for publication in the IEEE Control Systems Letters. [IEEE Xplore]

Jan 2020

UIC Foundations of Data Science Institute. The institute is funded by the NSF and involves three departments (CS, ECE, and Statistics). I am participating as a senior personnel.

May 2019

I received a Faculty Advising Award (for undergraduate advising) from the College of Engineering.

Mar 2019

Manuscript: "Systematic Design of Decentralized Algorithms for Consensus Optimization."
Update (May 2019): Accepted for publication in the IEEE Control Systems Letters. [IEEE Xplore]

Sep 2018

Manuscript: "Computational Convergence Analysis of Distributed Gradient Descent for Smooth Convex Objective Functions."
Update (Jan 2019): Accepted to the American Control Conference (ACC) under the new title "Computational Convergence Analysis of Distributed Gradient Tracking for Smooth Convex Optimization Using Dissipativity Theory." [arXiv]

May 2018

Review paper (with George J. Pappas): "Privacy in Control and Dynamical Systems," Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems.

Aug 2017

I joined the ECE Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an Assistant Professor on Aug 1, 2017.

Oct 2016

I am teaching ESE 605: Modern Convex Optimization in Spring 2017.

Oct 2016

Paper submitted to ICCPS on data-driven robust rebalancing of vehicles for ridesharing.

Sep 2016

Paper submitted to ACC on quantitative analysis on the efficiency of using autonomous vehicles in ridesharing.