| Sep 21, 2025 | Our submission “Quantum-Inspired Hamiltonian Descent for Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming” has been accepted by the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop ScaleOPT: GPU-Accelerated and Scalable Optimization as a poster. |
| Sep 03, 2025 | My collaborators (Yuxiang Peng, Lei Fan, and Xiaodi Wu) and I organize a tutorial titled “Step-by-Step Guide to Solving Nonlinear Optimization with Quantum Computers” at the IEEE Quantum Week (QCE25). Check it out if you are attending! |
| Jul 24, 2025 | I chair a session “Quantum Methods for Optimization and Sampling” at the International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2025), in which I also give a talk on a new quantum algorithm for Gibbs sampling with continuous potentials. |
| May 20, 2025 | Our paper “Quantum Optimization via Gradient-Based Hamiltonian Descent” has been posted on arXiv. Check it now! |
| May 14, 2025 | I am invited to speak in a minisymposium on “Dynamical Systems for Machine Learning” in SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25), organized by Yuqing Wang, Boumediene Hamzi, and Molei Tao. |
| May 08, 2025 | Our paper “Operator-Level Quantum Acceleration of Non-Logconcave Sampling” has been posted on arXiv. Check it now! |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Our paper “(Sub)Exponential Quantum Speedup for Optimization” has been posted on arXiv. Check it now! |
| Oct 22, 2024 | I am thrilled to chair a session “Advancements in Quantum Computing and Collaboration” at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS 2024), in which I also give a talk on quantum-inspired algorithms for nonlinear programming. |
| Oct 08, 2024 | I’m invited to give a talk at the 1st workshop on Advancing Quantum Computing Beyond Gate-Model (BGM2024), hosted by QuICS. Here is the link to my talk. |
| Aug 14, 2024 | I’m invited to give a talk on quantum algorithms for optimal control at Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA 24) conference, hosted by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | I am thrilled to join UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing! |
| Apr 04, 2024 | I defended my Ph.D. dissertation. Details of my defense can be found here. |
| Mar 22, 2024 | I’m invited to give a talk about quantum algorithms for nonconvex optimization at the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 24). |
| Mar 01, 2024 | I’m invited to visit the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at Caltech and give a talk at the IQIM seminar. |
| Jan 16, 2024 | Our paper “Expanding hardware-efficiently manipulable Hilbert space via Hamiltonian embedding” has been posted on arXiv. Check it now! |
| Sep 10, 2023 | I am a long-term core participant at Program on Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Quantum Computing, hosted by IPAM at UCLA (end of visit: December 15, 2023). |
| Jun 27, 2023 | I was awarded the Unitary Fund microgrant to build QHDOPT |