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

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
optimization under uncertainty
online and reinforcement learning
fundamental limits of learning and optimization

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
PhD in Operations Research, September 2018 – Present
Thesis advisor: Robert M. Freund
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Master of Science in Mathematics (by research), August 2016 – June 2018
Thesis advisors: Vincent Y. F. Tan and William B. Haskell
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, August 2011 – June 2015
Thesis advisor: Vincent Y. F. Tan

Professional Experiences

Research Intern, Mathematics of AI, IBM T. J. Waston Research Center, NY, USA, Jun. 2019 – Aug. 2019
Supervisor: Lior Horesh
Research Engineer, Dept. ISEM and Dept. of ECE, NUS, Singapore, Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2018
Supervisors: William B. Haskell and Vincent Y. F. Tan
Research Intern, Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems (LIONS), EPFL, Switzerland, Jun. 2017 – Aug. 2017
Supervisor: Volkan Cevher
Research Engineer, Dept. of ECE, NUS, Singapore, Jul. 2015 – Sep. 2016
Supervisors: Vincent Y. F. Tan and Huan Xu
Research Intern, Department of Human Language Technology, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, May 2013 – Nov. 2013
Supervisors: Dong-Yan Huang and Yvonne S. W. Lee

Professional Services

Session Chair: INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019
Reviewer: Computational Optimization and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters