Zhaosong Lu

Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Minnesota

Phone: (612) 626-9431
Email: zhaosong@umn.edu

 

I am a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Minnesota. I received my Ph.D. from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Renato Monteiro and Arkadi Nemirovski.

 

Research Interests
  • Theoretical foundations and algorithm development for hierarchical, distributed, robust, and stochastic optimization
  • Intersections of optimization, machine learning, and statistics for AI safety and high-dimensional data analysis
  • Development of novel and efficient methods for large-scale optimization in AI and machine learning
Teaching
  • IE 8564: Optimization for machine learning, Fall 2022-2024.
  • IE 8534: Advanced topics in numerical optimization, Spring 2023.
  • IE 8534: Advanced topics in optimization for machine learning, Fall 2020, 2021.
  • IE 5561: Analytics and data-driven decision making, Spring 2021-2024.
  • IE 5080: Optimization models and methods for machine learning, Spring 2020.
Research Papers Technical Reports


Editorial Service

  • Associate Editor: SIAM Journal on Optimization.
  • Associate Editor: Computational Optimization and Applications.
  • Associate Editor: Big Data and Information Analytics.

  • Current and Former Ph.D. Students at UMN

  • Sanyou Mei (2020-present): Honorable Mention for the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Best Student Paper Prize.
  • Chuan He (2019-2023): Assistant Professor, Linköping University, Sweden.
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