About Me

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Wharton Department of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. Jason Altschuler. My research interests lie broadly in optimization and machine learning, with a particular focus on min-max problems. Previously I earned my undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I majored in statistics and analytics, as well as mathematics.

News

  • Apr 2026 In Lund for the ELLIIT focus period.
  • Apr 2026 New preprint: "Negative Momentum for Convex-Concave Optimization" available on arXiv.
  • Nov 2025 New preprint: "Min-Max Optimization Is Strictly Easier Than Variational Inequalities" available on arXiv.
  • May 2025 New preprint: "Negative Stepsizes Make Gradient-Descent-Ascent Converge" available on arXiv.
  • Aug 2023 Started PhD at Wharton (UPenn).

Research