Scientific activities

Editorship

Conference/Workshop Organization

  • Section organizer with two parts (with Ion Necoara): Recent advances on convergence rates of first-order methods, at the Fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Tokyo, August 2016.
  • Organizer of the invited section: Convex Optimization in Machine Learning, at the Fourth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT2013), Lisbon, Portugal, August 2013.
  • Program Committee of the 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Nice, France, December 2019.

Tutorials

  • Title: Convex Optimization for Big Data
  • Presenters:
    1. Volkan Cevher (EPFL)
    2. Mario Figueiredo (University of Lisbon)
    3. Mark Schmidt (University of British Columbia)
    4. Quoc Tran-Dinh (EPFL)
  • Where: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015.
  • Link: This tutorial can be found  HERE.

Talks/Invited Talks

  1. VinAI Research Seminar
  2. 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)
  3. Department Colloquium at University of Florida
  4. SIAM Seminar at University of Florida
  5. Department Colloquium at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  6. Seminar talk at UCLA:
    • Title: Generalized Self-Concordant Functions and Applications
    • Where: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UCLA.
    • When: October, 2019.
  7. Applied Math. Colloquium at UNC-Chapel Hill:
  8. Talk at the Opening Workshop in Deep Learning
  9. Talk at the Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT)
  10. Talk at the Lehigh DIMACS/TRIPODS/MOPTA conference
    • When: August 13-17, 2018
  11. Invited talk at the  Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, (NUS)
  12. Invited talk at The 2018 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference
    • Title: Proximal Alternating Penalty Algorithms for Constrained Convex Optimization
    • Where: University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado.
    • When: March 23-25, 2018
  13. Invited colloquium (Maseeh Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium Series)
  14. Invited talk at seminar
    • Title: Exploiting analytical structures in convex optimization applications
    • Where: IBM Watson Research Center, New York.
    • When: July 2017.
  15. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Self-concordant inclusions: A unified framework for path-following generalized Newton-type methods
    • Conference: SIAM Conference on Optimization
    • Where: Vancouver, Canada
    • When: May 22–26, 2017
  16. Invited talk at seminar
    • Title: Self-concordant inclusions: A unified framework for path- following generalized Newton methods
    • Where: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    • When: November 2016.
  17. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Extended Gauss-Newton Methods for Matrix Optimization
    • Conference: INFORMS annual meeting
    • Where: Nashville, Tennessee
    • When: November 13–16, 2016
  18. Invited talk at conference
  19. Invited talk at seminar
  20. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Composite convex minimization involving self-concordant-like cost functions
    • Conference: Modelling, Computation, and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences (MCO 2015)
    • Where: Metz, France
    • When: May 11-13, 2015.
  21. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: A Unified Primal-Dual Optimization Framework for Constrained Convex Optimization
    • Conference: The 4th IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization
    • Where: University of Birmingham, England.
    • When: September 3-5, 2014.
  22. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Recent Progress in Numerical Methods for Some Classes of Convex Optimization Problems
    • Conference: The 2nd International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (ICCSE-2014)
    • When: August 19-21, 2014
    • Where: Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.
  23. Invited talk at workshop
    • Title: Composite Convex Minimization: Examples and Solution Methods
    • Workshop: Workshop on “Equilibrium and Fixed Point Problems: Theory and Algorithms”
    • Where: Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), Hanoi, Vietnam
    • When: August 25-29, 2014.
  24. Talk at conference
    • Title: Composite Self-concordant Minimization: A Path-Following Method
    • Conference: SIAM Conference on Optimization (SIOPT2014)
    • When: May 19—22, 2014
    • Where: San Diego, USA.
  25. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Composite Self-Concordant Minimization
    • Conference: SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (SIAM-IS14)
    • When: May 12—14, 2014
    • Where: Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
  26. Invited talk at seminar
    • Title: Sequential Convex Programming for Nonlinear Optimization with Two Applications in Control
    • Where: Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
    • When: December 6, 2013
  27. Oral presentation at conference
    • Title: A proximal Newton framework for composite minimization: Graph learning without Cholesky decompositions and matrix inversions
    • Conference: The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2013)
    • When: June 16—21, 2013
    • Where: Atlanta, USA.
  28. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Fast decomposition algorithms for large-scale separable convex optimization
    • Conference:  International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT2013). When: July 27-August 1, 2013.
    • Where: Lisbon, Portugal.
  29. Invited talk at seminar
    • Title: Dual Decomposition Methods for Solving Separable Convex Optimization Problems
    • Where: Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
    • When:  July 16, 2012
  30. Invited talk at seminar
    • Title: Structure Exploiting Approaches for Nonlinear Optimization
    • Where: Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria.
    • When: July 10, 2012.
  31. Invited talk at conference
    • Title: Solving Structural Large-Scale Convex Programming Problems via Dual Decomposition and Smoothing Techniques
    • Conference: The 5th International Conference on High-Performance Scientific Computing
    • When: March 5-9, 2012
    • Where: Hanoi, Vietnam.
  32. Talk at conference
    • Title: Real-time Sequential Convex Programming for Nonlinear MPC and Application
    • Conference: Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
    • When: December 12—15, 2011
    • Where: Orlando, Florida, USA.
  33. Talk at workshop
    • Title: On Sequential Convex Programming
    • Workshop: Annual OPTEC meeting
    • Where: Sol-Cress, Spa, Belgium
    • When: 2010.
  34. Talk at workshop
    • Title: Adjoint-Based Sequential Convex Programming Methods and Applications
    • Workshop: The 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
    • When: March 30-April 1 2010
    • Where: Heeze, The Netherlands.
  35. Talk at conference
    • Title: Real-Time Sequential Convex Programming for Optimal Control Applications
    • Conference: The 4th International Conference on High-Performance Scientific Computing
    • When: March 2-6, 2009
    • Where: Hanoi, Vietnam.

Other services

Review activity, and scientific services

  1. Journal review
    • SIAM J. Optimization; Mathematical Programming; J. Global Optimization; Automatica; Optimization Methods and Software; IEEE Trans. Automatic Control; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Signal Processing Magazine; IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Computational Optimization, and Applications; Journal of Machine Learning Research, etc.
  1. Conference paper review
    • NIPS/NeurIPs, CDC, ECC, ICML, AISTATS, ICLR, etc.
  2. Members
    • SIAM Member, since 2014
    • INFORM Member, since 2016
    • IEEE Member, since 2017

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