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 focuses on the theory and algorithms of continuous optimization and its intersection with applied probability, with applications in machine learning and operations research. Specific interests include:

• stochastic optimization and nonlinear programming

• optimization under uncertainty

• online learning and reinforcement learning

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, 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, Microsoft Research AI, WA, USA, Jun. 2020 – Aug. 2020
  Supervisor: Lin Xiao

• Research Intern, IBM T. J. Waston Research Center, NY, USA, Jun. 2019 – Aug. 2019
  Supervisor: Lior Horesh

• Research Intern, EPFL, Switzerland, Jun. 2017 – Aug. 2017
  Supervisor: Volkan Cevher

• Research Engineer, NUS, Singapore, Jul. 2015 – Aug. 2018
  Supervisors: William B. Haskell, Vincent Y. F. Tan and Huan Xu

• Research Intern, 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: SIAM Journal on Optimization, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Computational Optimization and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing