LIN F. YANG
Dr. Lin Yang (杨林) is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on developing and applying fast algorithms for machine learning and data science. He is keen on understanding the fundamental theory and computation limits of optimization for different machine learning problems. His current research focus is on reinforcement learning theory and applications, learning for control, non-convex optimization, and streaming algorithms. He was a recipient of the Simons' Research Fellowship, Dean Robert H. Roy Fellowship, and JHU MINDS best dissertation award.
Previously, he was a postdoc at Princeton University working with Prof. Mengdi Wang. He obtained two Ph.D. degrees (in Computer Science and in Physics & Astronomy) from Johns Hopkins University. His doctoral advisors are Professor Alex Szalay and Professor Vova Braverman.
[Last Updated May. 2023]
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Teaching
Service
- Area Chair: ICLR (2021), NeurIPS (2021), NeurIPS (2022), ICLR (2022), ICLR (2023), AISTATS (2023), ICML (2023), NeurIPS (2023)
- Senior Program Committee: AAAI (2021)
- Program Committee: ACML (2019), AAAI (2020)
- Conference Reviewing: AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, STOC, FOCS, COLT, PODS, ITCS, ACML, AISTATS, ICALP, RANDOM, ESA, LATIN, KAIS, FSTTCS
- Journal Reviewing: Theoretical Computer Science, QIC, JCSS, OPRE, TMLR
People
Ph.D. Students Undergraduate Students Alumni- Fei Feng (co-advising with Wotao Yin) (First Job: Pintrests)
- Qiwen Cui (former undergraduate advisee, Now Ph.D. student @ UW)
- Kunhe Yang (former undergraduate advisee, Now Ph.D. student @ Berkerley)
- Junhong Shen (former undergraduate advisee, Now Ph.D. student @ CMU)
- Alekh Agarwal
- Alex Ayoub
- Avrim Blum
- Vladimir Braverman
- Tamás Budavári
- Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo
- Zhehui Chen
- Xiaoyu Chen
- Qiwen Cui
- Simon Du
- Artur W. Dubrawski
- Ethan X. Fang
- Fei Feng
- Hua Feng
- Gabriel Fernandez
- Christina Fragouli
- Osama Hanna
- Jarvis Haupt
- Wei Hu
- Jiachen Hu
- Zeyu Jia
- Jiantao Jiao
- Philip Kaaret
- Ramchandran Kannan
- Sham M Kakade
- Ananya Kumar
- Robert Krauthgamer
- Harry Lang
- Yi Li
- Xingguo Li
- Yingyu Liang
- Zaoxing Liu
- Matey Neykov
- Mark Neyrinck
- Nived Rajaraman
- Ruslan Salakhutdinov
- Aarti Singh
- Aaron Sidford
- Joe Silk
- Christian Sohler
- Zhao Song
- Csaba Szepesvári
- Zhaoran Wang
- Mengdi Wang
- Ruosong Wang
- Tianyu Wang
- Zhaoran Wang
- David Woodruff
- Jingfeng Wu
- Yichong Xu
- Zhuoran Yang
- Yinyu Ye
- Wotao Yin
- Zheng Yu
- Kaiqing Zhang
- Hongyang Zhang
- Hanrui Zhang
- Tuo Zhao
- Peilin Zhong
- Han Zhong
Talks
Education
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Advisors: Vladimir Braverman, Alex Szalay
- Ph.D. in Physics & Astronomy, Advisor: Alex Szalay
- MS.E. in Computer Science (GPA 4.0/4.0)
- B.S. in Math & Physics with High Honors
Contact Me
Email: linyang[at]ee[dot]ucla[dot]edu
My middle name Forrest is a translation of my first name (林). My publication name is Lin F. Yang -- to distinguish me from many Lin Yang's. Note that my official name (Lin Yang OR 杨林) does not contain a middle name.