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Activities
- March 2026: Attend IOS at Atlanta, GA and give a talk on Sinkhorn DRO.
- Sep 2025: Attend 2025 Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Annual Meeting.
- July 2025: Attend ICCOPT 2025 at USC, Los Angeles and present our work on IAN-SGD.
- June 2025: Got my first long paper accepted by TMLR. Special thanks to my collaborators and AFRL for their supervision and funding support during summer 2024.
- March 2025: Passed the fundamental exam, marking a formal starting point of my PhD journey.
- Dec 2024: Attend NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, CA and present our work on Sinkhorn DRO.
- Sep 2023: Attend the Allerton Conference hosted at Allerton Park by UIUC.
Academic Services
- Conference Reviewer: AISTATS
- Journal Reviewer: IEEE TSP; IEEE TPAMI; Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
- Workshop Reviewer: NeurIPS-OPT workshop
Teaching
- At Rice: ELEC241, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I
Industry Experience
Summer 2026
Research Intern, Futurewei Technology
TBD
TBD
Summer 2024
PhD contractor Intern, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Supported collaborative research on developing adaptive normalization methods, published in TMLR.
Supported collaborative research on developing adaptive normalization methods, published in TMLR.
2020-2021
Undergrad RA, AIRS(Shenzhen)
Collaborative research on developing Deep Learning models for anomaly detection.
Collaborative research on developing Deep Learning models for anomaly detection.
📚Education
2024-now
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
2023-2024
Ph.D. (Transfer Out) in Electrical Engineering
University of Utah
University of Utah
2021-2023
M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering
Rice University
Rice University
2017-2021
B.S. in Applied Math
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Prior to university, I grew up and finished my elementary education in Jiayuguan(嘉峪关), a small town in Gansu Province located near the starting point of the Great Wall. In my spare time, I go hiking and self-driving. I love Hip-hop/R&B/Kpop/House music. Occasionally, I read some paragraphs from Yangming Wang(王阳明). Sentence like “躲天意，避因果，诸般枷锁困真我；顺天意，承因果，今日方知我是我；一朝悟道见真我，何惧昔日旧枷锁，世间枷锁本是梦，无形无相亦无我” makes me stay peaceful. I write my thoughts on WeChat Account: 热依木的三味书屋 with pen name Abdurrahim Amin(Ugyhur:ئابدۇرەھىم ئەمىن).