Profile
Yuyuan "Lance" Ouyang
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Associate Professor
864-656-5225
Martin Hall O207 [Office]
Educational Background
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Florida, 2013
Research Interests
Nonlinear optimization, stochastic approximation, algorithm design for big data analytics
Courses Taught
MATH 8710/8720 Machine Learning I/II
MATH 8140 Network Flow Programming
MATH 8100 Mathematical Programming
MATH 8110 Nonlinear programming
MATH 2060 Calculus of Several Variables
MATH 4400/6400 Linear programming
MATH 4990 Creative Inquiry in Mathematics
Selected Publications
• Universal conditional gradient sliding for convex optimization (with Trevor Squires), SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol 33(4), 2023
• Graph topology invariant gradient and sampling complexity for decentralized and stochastic optimization (with Guanghui Lan and Yi Zhou), SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol 33(3), 2023
• Semidefinite representable reformulations for two variants of the trust-region subproblem (with Sarah Kelley and Boshi Yang), Operations Research Letters, Vol 51(6), 2023
• An asymptotic result of conditional logistic regression estimator (with Zhulin He), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Vol 53(13), 2023
• Accelerated gradient sliding for structured convex optimization (with Guanghui Lan), Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol 82, 2022
• Lower complexity bounds of first-order methods for convex-concave bilinear saddle-point problems (with Yangyang Xu), Mathematical Programming, Vol 185, 2021
