Biography
Zhang Qian is a Research Fellow in the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, working with Prof. Lin Meixia. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Beijing University of Technology in 2023. Before joining Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, she visited the Shenzhen Research Institute at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for a short research visit. As a graduate student, she had research visits at the National University of Singapore and the University of California, Irvine.
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Beijing University of Technology, China, 2023 (Supervisor: Prof. ZHAO Xinyuan)
- M.Sc. in Mathematics, Beijing University of Technology, China, 2018
- B.Sc. in Information and Computing Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, China, 2015
- B.A. in International Economics and Trade, Beijing University of Technology, China, 2015
Research Interests
- Algorithm design for large-scale optimization problems in data science
- Optimization Algorithms in Statistics Learning
- Stochastic optimization
Selected Publications
- Chen M, Gao K, Liu X, Wang Z, Ni N, Zhang Q, et al. THOR, Trace-based Hardware-driven Layer-oriented Natural Gradient Descent Computation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 35(8), 2021, pp. 7046-7054. Link:https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16867
- Zhang Q, Zhao X, Ding C. Matrix Optimization Based Euclidean Embedding with Outliers. Computational Optimization and Applications, 79(2), 2021, pp. 235-271. arXiv link:https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12772
Awards
- OR Application Award, Operations Research Society of China, 2022
- Outstanding Young Researcher Paper Award, Beijing Operations Research Society, 2021