Team

Principal Investigator

Yiping Lu

 Assistant Professor
 yiping [dot] lu [at] northwestern [dot] edu

 Yiping is a tenure-track assistant professor at Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University. Prior to that, he worked as a Courant instructor for one year at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. degree in applied math from Stanford University in 2023 and my Bachelor’s degree in applied math from Peking University in 2019. Yiping was a recipient of the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) Rising Star Award in 2024, the Rising Star in Data Science from the University of Chicago in 2022. He also serves as an area chair for flagship machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS and AISTATS.

Student

Ph.D.

NameInterests

Visiting Students

NameInterests

Master and Undergrads

NameInterestsAchievement
Kaizhao Liu (2025)Machine Learning Theory (PKU)First Author paper in ICML 2024
Honam Wong (2025)Machine Learning Theory (HKUST)First Author paper submitted to Neurips 2024
Ruihan Xu (2025)Machine Learning Theory, Applied Math (SJTU)First Author paper submitted to AISTATS 2025
Wendao Wu (2026)Machine Learning Theory, Applied Math (PKU)Second Author paper submitted to Neurips 2024
Zexi Fan (2026)Scientific Machine Learning, Stochasatic Control (PKU)First Author in preparation

Alumni

NameNext PositionAchievement
Wenlong JiStanford Statistics Ph.DFirst Author paper in ICLR 2022
Haoxuan ChenStanford ICME Ph.DFirst Author paper in ICLR 2022
Jikai JinStanford ICME Ph.DFirst Author paper in ICLR 2023 (spotlight)