2025

• Co-organized (with Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry, UT Austin and Harsha Honnappa, Purdue) and Presented in the minisymposium "Advances in Algorithms for Extreme Events in Science and Engineering" (MS167 & MS190) at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25), Fort Worth, Texas, March 3-7.
• Visited the School of Mathematics at University of Minnesota and gave a colloquium talk, Jan 27-28.
• Visited the Department of Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania and spoke at the Probability and Combinatorics Seminar on Jan 21.
• Visited the School of Data Science and Society & Department of Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and gave a seminar talk, Jan 14-15.
• Visited the Department of Mathematics at UCLA and spoke at the Applied Math Colloquium, Jan 6-7.

2024

• Visited the Department of Mathematics at UC Berkeley and gave a guest lecture on Dec 19.
• Visited the Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research at Rice University and spoke at the CMOR Special Lecture, Dec 16-17.
• Visited the Department of Mathematics at University of South Carolina and gave a colloquium talk, Dec 12-13.
• Visited the Department of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin - Madison and gave a colloquium talk, Dec 9-10.
• Visited the Department of Mathematics at The Pennsylvania State University and gave a colloquium talk on Dec 6.
• Visited the Mathematical Sciences Department at The University of Texas at Dallas and gave a colloquium talk on Dec 3.
• Attended and presented at the NSF Workshop on Data-driven Modeling and Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events, IMSI, Chicago, IL, November 21-22.
• Visited the Department of Mathematics at Purdue University and spoke at the CCAM seminar, November 11-12.
• Attended the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24) from October 21-25 in Atlanta, Georgia. Presented at MS24: Non-intrusive Computational Methods to Incorporate Prior Knowledge for Improved Statistical Accuracy on October 22.
• Attended the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section Annual Meeting from October 11-13 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Presented at MS20: Data and Model-Driven Approaches for Inverse Problems on October 12, and co-organized (with Lu Zhang, Rice) MS41: Recent Developments in Computational Inversion and Reduced Order Modeling on October 13.
• Presented "Engineering the Unpredictable: Applied Math in Rare Event Studies" at Engineering Speaks outreach event on August 13, and shared my career journey and introduced applied mathematics to local K-12 students, encouraging underrepresented groups to pursue related careers.
• Our paper "Large deviation theory-based adaptive importance sampling for rare events in high dimensions" is now featured in SIAM High Impact Article Collection and Most Read Article for JUQ. [arXiv:2209.06278, JUQ Link]
• Our paper "Sensitivity analysis of the information gain in infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems" has been published by the International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, featured as the most viewed and downloaded article of July, 2024. [arXiv:2310.16906, IJUQ Link]
• Presented our recent work "Policy iteration method for inverse mean-field games" at New England Numerical Analysis Day (NENAD) at Dartmouth College on June 18.
• Presented our recent work "Policy iteration method for inverse mean-field games" at Sayas Numerics Day at George Mason University on May 11.
• Presented at the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 2024), Houston, TX in March.
• Presented at the minisymposium "Theory and simulation of failure probabilities and rare events" at SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ24) in Trieste, Italy, February 27 - March 1. I also received a SIAM Early Career Travel Award for this conference.

2023

• Attended Mathematical Opportunities in Digital Twins Workshop at George Mason University, Arlington, VA in December.
• Presented at Mid-Atlantic Numerical Analysis Day at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA on November 10.
• Co-organized (with Kostas Papakonstantinou) a minisymposium on "Rare Event Estimation and Optimization" at the first annual meeting of SIAM-New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania section at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ, October 21-22.
• Presented at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ in October.
• Our paper "Scalable methods for computing sharp extreme event probabilities in infinite-dimensional stochastic systems" has recently been accepted and published by Statistics and Computing. You can find its versions on [arXiv:2303.11919, Stat.Comput. Link].
• Presented at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in August at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. I received a ICIAM 2023 Travel Award for this conference from SIAM.
• I am honored to receive the two-year AMS-Simons Travel Grant starting August 2023. This will serve as a strong support for my research activities and collaborations.
• I am honored to be selected as the finalist for the Twenty-first IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, based on our work "Large deviation theory-based adaptive importance sampling for rare events in high dimensions". I gave a lecture at the IMA Leslie Fox Prize meeting on June 26 in Glasgow, UK, and won the Second Prize.
• Our paper "Large deviation theory-based adaptive importance sampling for rare events in high dimensions" has recently been accepted and published by SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification (JUQ). You can find its versions on [arXiv:2209.06278, JUQ Link]
• I am honored to receive the NSF-AWM Travel Grant.
• Co-organized (with Anirudh Subramanyam) a minisymposium on "Optimization with Rare Events" [MS226, MS249] at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) on June 2 at the Sheraton Grand Seattle in Seattle, WA. I also gave a talk about Optimization under Rare Chance Constraints on May 31. I received a SIAM Early Career Travel Award for this conference.
• Our paper "Estimating earthquake-induced tsunami height probabilities without sampling" has recently been accepted and published by Pure and Applied Geophysics. You can find its versions on [arXiv:2111.14325, PAG Link].
• We successfully held the first APAM Graduate Research Symposium on April 21. There were 17 presentations from graduate students across all three APAM programs: Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, and Materials Science.
• Presented at the MSRI (SLMath) Special Session on Summer Research in Mathematics (SRiM): Applied and Computational Mathematics at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2023) in Boston on Jan 4, 2023.

2022

• Presented at APAM Research Conference at Columbia University, NY, Sep 16
• I am happy to receive the Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize from Courant Institute for the outstanding dissertation.
• Finalist of Best Paper for Young Researchers Prize and Session at the International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT) Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, July 23-24.
• Selected attendee for PIMS-IFDS-NSF Summer School on Optimal Transport at University of Washington in Seattle, WA, June 20 - July 1.
• Selected attendee and presented at Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences in Albuquerque, NM, April 20-21.
• Presented at Mini-Symposium: Characterization and prediction of rare and extreme events in complex systems at SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ22), April 12-15.
• Presented at Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) seminar at Cornell University, March 21.
• Presented at CCB Seminar at Center for Computational Biology at Simons Foundation, Jan 21.
• Presented at Applied Mathematics Colloquium at at Columbia University, Jan 20.

2021

• Presented at Mini-Symposium: Characterization and prediction of rare and extreme events in complex systems at SIAM conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE21), March 1-5.

2020

• Presented at General Session: Optimization under Rare Events at Virtual 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 7-13.
• Presented at Summer Argonne Students Symposium (SASSy), August 14.
• Attended the ICERM workshop: Computational Statistics and Data-Driven Models, April 20 - 24.
• Presenter at Mini-Symposium: Statistical Prediction and Quantification of Extreme Events in Complex Systems at SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ20) in Munich, Germany, March 24-27. The conference was cancelled due to COVID-19.
• Presented at Courant modeling & simulation group meeting (MSG) in New York, NY, February 20.

2019

• Presented a poster at ICERM workshop: Mathematical Optimization of Systems Impacted by Rare, High-Impact Random Events in Providence, RI, June 24-28.

2018

• Attended the 2018 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School, Inverse Problems: Systematic Integration of Data with Models under Uncertainty in Breckenridge, CO, June 17-30. Gave a presentation on team project "Data Fitting with Soap Bubble Surfaces: A Minimal Surfaces Problem".