Yao Li

Ph.D. candidate Advisor: Prof. Ming Yan Department of Mathematics Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE) Michigan State University C540 Wells Hall 619 Red Cedar Road East Lansing, MI 48824 Email: liyao6@msu.edu LinkedIn   CV   ORCiD

About Me

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student majoring in applied mathematics with a minor in computational mathematics at Michigan State University.

Education

Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

• Ph.D. majoring in applied mathematics with a minor in CMSE, expected 2022

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China

• B.S. in Pure and Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, 2017
  Project: On ADMM for Three Separable Operators and Accelerated Algorithms
  Advisor: Prof. Bingsheng He

Honors & Awards

• Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, MSU, Jul 2021

• Herbert T. Graham Scholarship Fund in Mathematics, MSU, April 2020

• 2018-2019 Award for Outstanding Early Student in CMSE, MSU, April 2019

• Douglas A. Spragg Endowed Fellowship in Mathematics, MSU, April 2019

• Eminence Scholarship, 2nd Prize, SUSTech, May 2016

• College Start-up Scholarship, SUSTech, 2013 – 2017

Research Interests

These slides are used for my comprehensive exam, which covers two topics I did in 2019. My current research focuses on

• Convex Optimization

• Large-scale Optimization

• Decentralized Algorithm