About

Xudong LI (郦旭东)
Distinguished Professor
School of Data Science of Fudan University

Contacts:
RM N101, Zibin Building
Fudan University
220 Handan Road, Yangpu District
Shanghai, 200433, China

Email: X@Y where X = lixudong and Y = fudan.edu.cn

About [CV]:
Xudong Li joined the School of Data Science at Fudan University as a tenure-track Associate Professor in Fall Term 2018 and was promoted to Professor in December 2023, and Distinguished Professor in May 2024.  He received his Ph.D. degree in Optimization from National University of Singapore in 2015 under the supervision of Professors Defeng Sun and Kim-Chuan Toh.  From 2015 to 2017, he was a research fellow in the Department of Mathematics at National University of Singapore. Before joining Fudan University, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University supervised by Professor Mengdi Wang. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China. He received the Young Researcher Prize in Continuous Optimization of the Mathematical Optimization Society  (2019, awarded once every three years), an ICML Outstanding Paper Award (2022), and the Young Researcher Prize of the Operations Research Society of China (2022).

Current interests:

  • Matrix optimization and manifold optimization
  • Efficient algorithms for large-scale optimization problems in data science
  • Computational game theory, optimization and decision-making under uncertainty

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