Professional service activities.
Within Princeton University
- Initiator and organizer of the first Princeton Day of Optimization (September 28, 2018)
- Theme of theinaugural edition: Creative symbioses at the interface between optimization,control, and machine learning
- Related news article that appeared on the Princeton University homepage
- ~350 participants from over 50 academic and industrial institutions
- Initiator and organizer of the Princeton Optimization Seminar
- 56 seminarsheld Fall 2014-Fall 2018
- Link to past seminars.
- On the Curriculum Committee for the Undergraduate Program of the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning(headed by Prof. Peter Ramadge), Fall 2017- Present
- On the Curriculum Committee forthe Graduate Program of the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (headedby Prof. Peter Ramadge), Fall 2017- Present
- On the Committee for SEAS-wideSenior Faculty Search in Robotics and Cyber-physical Systems, Fall 2017 andSpring 2018
- On the Executive Committee of theRobotics and Intelligent Systems Certificate Program, Fall 2018-present
- Academic-Athletic Fellow ofPrinceton’s Men’s Tennis Team, 2015-present
- Freshman Advisor and FacultyAdvisor for Whitman College, 2017-2018
- Freshman Advisor and FacultyAdvisor for Whitman College, 2016-2017
- Freshman Advisor and FacultyAdvisor for Whitman College, 2015-2016
- Participating Faculty Member ofthe Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, 2016-Present
- On the evaluation committee ofthe School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Innovation Funds (category:Data Science) and the “small-c centers initiative”.
- On the PhD Final Public OralExamination Committee of 4 graduate students from PACM, COS, and MAE
- On the General ExaminationCommittee of 3 graduate students from MAE and PACM
Within Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE)
- Organizer of the ORFE Colloquium,Fall 2016 & Spring 2017
- Developed a new undergraduatecourse (ORF 363) and fully redesigned a core graduate course (ORF 523)
- Advisor of 18 undergraduatestudents for their senior theses and 2 undergraduate students for their junior theses
- On the search committee for ajunior faculty hire in Data Science, Fall 2018 & Spring 2019
- Academic advisor of ~15undergraduate students per year
- On the PhD Final Public OralExamination Committee of 5 graduate students
- On the General/QualificationExamination Committee of 9 graduate students
Within the research community at large
- Associate Editor of Mathematics of Operations Research
- On the Selection Committee of the 2018 Best Student Paper Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society
- Co-organizer of a workshop on``Solving large-scale semidefinite programs in control, machine learning, androbotics’’ at the 2016 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (11 coordinatedlectures)
- Tutorial lectures on algebraic methods in optimization
Speaker
- 2016 International Conference on Robotics and Automation
- 2014 IEEEConference on Decision and Control
- 2013 IEEEConference on Decision and Control
Co-organizer and Speaker
- 2017 IEEEConference on Decision and Control (on “Improving efficiency of SOS optimization:recent advances and limitations”)
- 2016 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (on “Sum of squares hierarchies for polynomial optimization”)
- Speaker and panelist at a workshop titled “Getting your Research Funded” held by the Junior Faculty Interest Group at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting
- Speakerand panelist at a workshop titled “Getting an NSF CAREER Award” held for juniorfaculty at the 2018 American Control Conference
On the organizing committee
- INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, ’16
- INFORMS International Conference, Cluster on Optimization, ’16
On the technical committee
- IEEE Conferenceon Decision and Control, ’17
- Control SystemsSociety: Computational Aspects of Control System Design, ’16
- 5thIFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, ’15
- DIMACSWorkshop on the Geometry of Distances, ’16
- IEEESymp. on Signal and Information Processing in Finance and Economics, ’13
- Co-organizer (with Ramon van Handel) of the Julia Robinson Math Festival, Princeton University, Spring 2017
- Program aimed at inspiring primary and middle-school students to pursue mathematics
- Mathematics mentor at the Julia Robinson Math Festival, Princeton University, ’15, ’16
- Organizer of >15 technical sessions at major optimization meetings including ISMP, SIOPT, ICCOPT, INFORMS,MOPTA
- Reviewer for MathematicalProgramming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematics of Operations Research, Annalsof Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, SIAM Journal onControl and Optimization, IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl, Cambridge University Press, and the National Science Foundation of the US and Czech Republic