Lin F. YANG
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My name is Lin Yang (杨林). I am an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, I was a postdoc at Princeton University working with Prof. Mengdi Wang. I obtained my PhD degrees (in Computer Science and in Physics & Astronomy) from Johns Hopkins University. I was a recipient of the Dean Robert H. Roy Fellowship. My research focuses on developing and applying fast algorithms for large-scale optimization and machine learning. I am keen on understanding the fundamental theory and computation limits of optimization from streaming data. I have worked on a number of topics including nonconvex streaming optimization, policy optimization for reinforcement learning, and streaming methods for optimization and function approximations. I am also enthusiastic about applying my algorithmic developments to accelerate real-world applications. For instance, my algorithmic developments have been applied to accelerate astrophysical discoveries. I am looking for motivated and talented students working on Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning. Please contact me if you are interested in my research. I was very fortunate to be advised by Professor Alex Szalay and Professor Vova Braverman, and to work with many wonderful collaborators.
[Last Updated Sept. 2019]
Teaching
Service
- Program Committee: ACML (2019), AAAI (2020)
- Conference Reviewing: AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, STOC, FOCS, COLT, PODS, ITCS, ACML, AISTATS, ICALP, RANDOM, ESA, LATIN, KAIS, FSTTCS
- Journal Reviewing: Theoretical Computer Science, QIC, JCSS, OPRE
People
Avrim Blum | Vladimir Braverman | Tamás Budavári | Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo |
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Zhehui Chen | Simon Du | Ethan X. Fang | Hua Feng |
Jarvis Haupt | Wei Hu | Philip Kaaret | Sham M Kakade |
Ananya Kumar | Robert Krauthgamer | Harry Lang | Xingguo Li |
Yingyu Liang | Zaoxing Liu | Matey Neykov | Mark Neyrinck |
Aaron Sidford | Joe Silk | Christian Sohler | Zhao Song |
Alex Szalay | Mengdi Wang | Ruosong Wang | Zhaoran Wang |
David Woodruff | Zhuoran Yang | Yinyu Ye | Zheng Yu |
Hongyang Zhang | Tuo Zhao | Peilin Zhong |
Talks
Education
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Advisors: Vladimir Braverman, Alex Szalay
- Ph.D. in Physics & Astronomy, Advisor: Alex Szalay
- MS.E. in Computer Science (GPA 4.0/4.0)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- B.S. in Math & Physics with High Honors
Contact Me
Email: linyang[at]ee[dot]ucla[dot]edu
My middle name Forrest is a translation of my first name (林). My publication name is Lin F. Yang -- to distinguish me from many Lin Yang's. Note that my official name (Lin Yang OR 杨林) does not contain a middle name.