News archive

A fuller record of talks, awards, conference activity, and program milestones.

2026

  • March 2026

    Presenting joint work with Renato D.C. Monteiro in the ISyE PhD seminar on scalable semidefinite programming and inexact proximal point methods.

  • February 2026

    Giving a talk in the Georgia Tech School of Mathematics Stochastics seminar series on joint work with Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii.

  • February 2026

    Awarded the Jessie and Ralph W. Pries Fellowship from the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.

2025

  • September 2025

    Looking forward to the SIAM Conference on Optimization 2026 and conversations on semidefinite and nonlinear programming.

  • September 2025

    Hosting a session in the Linear and Conic Optimization track at the INFORMS Optimization Society 2026 meeting.

  • April 2025

    Presenting recent work on semidefinite programming at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

  • March 2025

    Named incoming Georgia Tech ISyE INFORMS Chapter President for the 2025-2026 academic year.

2024

  • December 2024

    Received renewed fellowship support from Georgia Tech ISyE for the next several years.

  • April 2024

    Presented work on inexact high-order proximal point methods for convex tensor optimization at Georgia Tech.

  • February 2024

    Presented hybrid low-rank methods for large-scale nonlinear convex programming in the ISyE PhD research seminar.

2023

  • October 2023

    Planned attendance at the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society conference in Houston.

  • April 2023

    Awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

  • February 2023

    Awarded the H. Milton Stewart Fellowship and the Ernst and Young Fellowship for first-year PhD study at Georgia Tech.

  • January 2023

    Joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as an incoming Research Fellow in the Machine Learning Group within CCSD.

2022

  • December 2022

    Graduated from Georgia Tech and completed undergraduate degrees with research support from Daniel Dench and Gian-Gabriel Garcia.

  • November 2022

    Received a PhD fellowship from the GEM Consortium for graduate study at Georgia Tech.

  • November 2022

    Presented work on the effects of the EVALI crisis on e-cigarette usage at Southern Economic Association and American Economic Association meetings.

  • May 2022

    Named a Presidential Undergraduate Research Fellow and Summer Research Fellow at Georgia Tech.

  • April 2022

    Gave a seminar talk at the University of Virginia on e-cigarette usage and the effects of EVALI.