Renbo Zhao

PhD Candidate, Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Address: Muckley Building 1 Amherst St, Cambridge MA, USA 02142 Email: renboz AT mit DOT edu Curriculum Vitae (CV)      Google Scholar

Research Interests

My research interests mainly include large-scale optimization and its applications in machine learning and operations research. Specific interests include

• stochastic optimization and nonlinear programming

• online and reinforcement learning

• optimization under uncertainty

• fundamental limits of learning and optimization

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
  PhD in Operations Research, September 2018 – Present
  Thesis advisor: Prof. Robert M. Freund

• National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Master of Science in Mathematics (by research), August 2016 – June 2018
  Thesis advisors: Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan and Prof. William B. Haskell

• National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, August 2011 – June 2015
  Thesis advisor: Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan

Professional Experiences

• Research Engineer, Dept. ISEM and Dept. of ECE, NUS, Singapore, Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2018
  Supervisors: Prof. William B. Haskell and Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan

• Research Intern, Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems (LIONS), EPFL, Switzerland, Jun. 2017 – Aug. 2017
  Supervisor: Prof. Volkan Cevher

• Research Engineer, Dept. of ECE, NUS, Singapore, Jul. 2015 – Sep. 2016
  Supervisors: Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan and Prof. Huan Xu

• Research Intern, Department of Human Language Technology, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, May 2013 – Nov. 2013
  Supervisors: Dr. Dong-Yan Huang and Dr. Yvonne S. W. Lee

Professional Services

Reviewer for

• Journals: Computational Optimization and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters

• Conferences: ISIT (2016-17), ICASSP (2017-18)

Selected Awards

• SM2 Undergraduate Scholarship, Singapore Ministry of Education, Aug. 2011 - May 2015

• ST Electronics Prize, to the top sophomore student in EE, Jun. 2013

• Undergraduate Research Merit Awards, Faculty of Engineering, Jul. 2014 and Jul. 2015

• Student Travel Awards: AISTATS 2017, UAI 2017