Optimization for Machine Learning and Networks (OptMN) Lab

Ph.D Students

• Peiyao Xiao (2023.01 - present; ICML’23, NeurIPS’23, NeurIPS’23 spotlight, NeurIPS’23, ICLR’25)

• Yifan Yang (2023.01 - present; NeurIPS’23 spotlight, NeurIPS’23, NeurIPS’24, ICLR’25)

• Hao Ban (2023.09 - present; NeurIPS’23, ICML’24, ICLR’25)

• Meng Ding (Co-advised with Prof. Jinhui Xu) (2023.09 - present; ICML’24)

• Yujie Zhu (2024.08 - present; Presidential Fellowship)

• Anushka Tiwari (2025.04 - present)

Collaborative Ph.D Students at UB

• Rohan Sharma (2024.01 - present; ICLR’24)

• Zhaofeng Si (2024.01 - present; NeurIPS’24)

Master and Undergraduate Students

• Gokul Ram Subramani (MS, 2024.06 - present)

• Bhushan Mahajan (MS, 2024.08 - present)

• Adikavya Gupta (MS, 2023.02 - 2023.05)

• Manaswi Mancha (BS, 2024.09 - present)

• Aditya Challamarad (BS, will start from Spring, 2025)

Group Pictures

Poster Presentation at NeurIPS 2023

Group meeting

Research Support

Our group is generously supported by NSF (Awards 2326592,2311274) and University at Buffalo.