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.
| Name | Interests |
|---|---|
| Youheng Zhu | Machine Learning Theory, Sequential Monte Carlo, Inference Time Scaling |
Visiting Students
| Name | Interests |
|---|
Master and Undergrads
| Name | Interests | Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Zhaoyan Chen (2027) | Computational Math(Fudan University) |
Alumni
| Name | Next Position | Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Wenlong Ji | Stanford Statistics Ph.D | First Author paper in ICLR 2022 |
| Haoxuan Chen | Stanford ICME Ph.D | First Author paper in ICLR 2022 |
| Jikai Jin | Stanford ICME Ph.D | First Author paper in ICLR 2023 (spotlight) |
| Kaizhao Liu (2025) | MIT Math Ph.D | First Author paper in ICML 2024 |
| Honam Wong (2025) | Upenn Computer Science Ph.D | First Author paper submitted to Neurips 2025 |
| Ruihan Xu (2025) | UChicago Data Science Ph.D | First Author paper accepted at AISTATS 2025, submitted to Neurips 2026 |
| Chenyang Wang (2026) | Northwestern University, IEMS Ph.D. | First Author paper accepted at ICML 2026 |
| Weizhong Wang (2026) | Columbia University, IEOR Ph.D. | Optimal Rate for eigenfunctions for elliptic systems |
| Zexi Fan (2026) | Columbia University, Applied Math Ph.D. | First Author paper submitted |