TALKS

10/2023 On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks, IPAM's Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Learning Workshop, UCLA. Link

08/2023 On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks, Minisymposium of Recent Development in Quantum Simulation and Stochastic Methods, ICIAM 2023, Tokyo. Link

08/2023 On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks, Princeton University.

08/2023 On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks, JPMorgan Chase.

08/2023 On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT.

07/2023 On Quantum Speedups for Nonconvex Optimization via Quantum Tunneling Walks, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland. Link

08/2022 Adaptive Online Learning of Quantum States, Quantum Computer Systems Lecture Series. Link

06/2022 Quantum algorithms for nonconvex optimization: Escaping from Saddle Points and Beyond, Invited talk, 2022 IMS Annual Meeting.

05/2022 Quantum algorithms for Escaping from Saddle Points and Beyond, Bristol Quantum Information Theory Seminar.

10/2021 Quantum algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization, Invited talk, INFORMS 2021 Annual Meeting. Link

08/2021 Quantum Algorithms for Semidefinite Programs with Applications to Machine Learning, Invited talk, International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IJTCS 2021). Link

07/2021 Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points, Invited talk, Quantum Wave in Computing Reunion, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Link

05/2021 Quantum algorithms for semidefinite programs with applications to machine learning, CFCS Quantum Day, Peking University. Link

04/2021 Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points, Seminar, Nagoya University.

03/2021 Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points, Seminar, IBM.

02/2021 Sublinear classical and quantum algorithms for general matrix games, 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021).

12/2020 Quantum algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization, Invited talk, AMSS-UTS Joint Workshop on Quantum Computing.

08/2020 Quantum algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization, Invited talk, International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IJTCS 2020). Link

08/2020 Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points, Seminar, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

06/2020 Quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization, Seminar, Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University.

06/2020 Quantum algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization, Invited talk, QISE-NET IBM Almaden Meeting.

04/2020 Quantum algorithms on convex bodies, Sigma Seminar, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

02/2020 Quantum algorithms on convex bodies, Invited talk, Quantum Algorithms Workshop, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Link

01/2020 Quantum algorithm for estimating volumes of convex bodies, Contributed talk, 23rd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2020). Link

12/2019 Quantum algorithms for optimization and machine learning, Seminar, University of Hong Kong.

11/2019 Quantum algorithm for estimating volumes of convex bodies, Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

11/2019 Quantum algorithms for optimization and machine learning, Seminar, Boston University.

10/2019 Quantum algorithms for optimization and machine learning, Google AI Princeton.

06/2019 Sublinear quantum algorithms for training linear and kernel-based classifiers, 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019). Link

01/2019 Quantum SDP Solvers: New Input Models, Improved Algorithms, and Applications, Contributed talk, 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2019). Link

10/2018 Quantum algorithms for convex optimization, Invited talk, Workshop on Quantum Innovators in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Waterloo.

10/2018 Quantum algorithms for convex optimization, Capital Area Theory Seminar (CATS), University of Maryland.

07/2018 Quantum SDP Solvers: Large Speed-ups, Optimality, and Applications to Quantum Learning, Seminar, IBM.

06/2018 Quantum algorithms for learning distributions, Lightning talk, Workshop on Challenges in Quantum Computation, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Link

01/2018 Quantum query complexity of entropy estimation, Seminar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).

01/2018 Quantum Speedups for Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Quantum Learning, Invited talk, Hong Kong Workshop on Quantum Information and Foundations, University of Hong Kong.

12/2017 Quantum Speedups for Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Quantum Learning, Sigma Seminar, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

05/2017 Quantum query complexity of entropy estimation, Seminar, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo.

02/2017 Classical and quantum query complexity of entropy estimation, Capital Area Theory Seminar (CATS), University of Maryland.

09/2016 Efficient simulation of sparse Markovian quantum dynamics, QuICS seminar, University of Maryland.