PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
- Editorship (peer-reviewed journals)
- Action Editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research: 06/2022 - Present
- Action Editor, Machine Learning: 06/2021 - Present
- Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications: 06/2022 - Present
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: 01/2022 - 12/2023
- Action Editor, Neural Networks: 01/2022 - 12/2022
- Area Chair / Meta-Reviewer / Senior Program Committee (peer-reviewed conferences)
- Area Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 2020 - 2024
- Area Chair, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): 2022 - 2023
- Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): 2021 - 2024
- Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS): 2021 - 2024
- Area Chair, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI): 2022 - 2023
- Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): 2023 - 2024
- Senior Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2022
- Organizing Committee
- Journal Chair, The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).
- General Chair & Program Chair, When Machine Learning meets Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications. AAAI 2023 Workshop
- Program Chair, New Frontiers in Federated Learning: Privacy, Fairness, Robustness, Personalization and Data Ownership. NeurIPS 2021 Workshop
- Reviewer (proposals)
- Reviewer & Panelist, Grant proposals, National Science Foundation (NSF): 2022
- Evaluation Member, Grant proposals, AI Singapore (AISG) Research Programme: 2022
- Reviewer, Workshop proposals, NeurIPS 2021 Workshop
- Reviewer / Program Committee (peer-reviewed conferences)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 2017 - 2019
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS/NeurIPS): 2017 - 2021
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): 2018 - 2020
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS): 2019 - 2020
- Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI): 2019 - 2021
- Conference on Learning Theory (COLT): 2021 - 2022
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2019 - 2021
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): 2019 - 2022
- International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2020
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV): 2020
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV): 2019 - 2021
- Reviewer (peer-reviewed journals)
- Journal of Machine Learning Research: 2018 - 2022
- Mathematical Programming: 2020 - 2022
- SIAM Journal on Optimization: 2020 - 2021
- SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis: 2021
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: 2020 - 2021
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: 2019 - 2020
- Artificial Intelligence: 2019
- Optimization Methods and Software: 2018
- SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science: 2020
- Member
- Editorial Board, Journal of Machine Learning Research: 2020 - Present
- Editorial Board, Machine Learning: 2021 - Present
- Editorial Board, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications: 2022 - Present
- Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: 2022 - 2023
- Editorial Board, Neural Networks: 2022
- Program Committee, "When Machine Learning meets Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications (MLmDS 2023)", AAAI 2023 Workshop
- Program Committee, "New Frontiers in Federated Learning: Privacy, Fairness, Robustness, Personalization and Data Ownership (NFFL 2021)", NeurIPS 2021 Workshop
- Program Committee, "Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2020)", NeurIPS 2020 Workshop
- Program Committee, "Modern Trends in Nonconvex Optimization for Machine Learning", ICML 2018 Workshop
- Session Chair / Organizer
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- "Optimization/Reinforcement Learning", ICML 2022
- "OPT: Non-Convex", ICML 2022
- "Optimization (Stochastic)", ICML 2021
- "Optimization (Nonconvex)", ICML 2021
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
- INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS)
- "First-Order Methods for Machine Learning", INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023
- "Optimization for Machine Learning", INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022
- "Recent Advances in Stochastic Gradient Algorithms", INFORMS Annual Meeting 2021
- "Recent Advances in Stochastic Gradient Algorithms for Machine Learning Applications", INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020
- "Fast and Provable Nonconvex Optimization Algorithms in Machine Learning", INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019
- "Recent Advances in Optimization Methods for Machine Learning", INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018
- Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA)
- "Sparse Optimization" and "Stochastic Gradient Decent", DIMACS/TRIPODS/MOPTA 2018
- IBM Activities
- Champion, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 01/2022 - Present
- Member, Invention Development Team (IDT): 11/2021 - Present
- Champion, Professional Interest Community (PIC) - Learning: 07/2021 - Present
- Member, Research AI Pillar Accomplishment Committee: 2022
- Reviewer, 2021 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Competition: 2022
- Reviewer, IBM Ph.D. Fellowships: 2020
