Taoli Zheng

About Me

I am the fourth-year Ph.D student in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Anthony Man-Cho So. Before that, I received my bachelor degree in Statistics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. My research involves developing algorithms for structured nonconvex problems and provide theorectical analysis for it.

I am actively looking for postdoc position starting from August 2025!

Publication/Preprint

• Universal Gradient Descent Ascent Method for Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization [NeurIPS 2023]
  Taoli Zheng, Linglingzhi Zhu, Anthony Man-Cho So, José Blanchet, Jiajin Li.

• A Linearly Convergent Algorithm for Rotationally Invariant $\ell_1$-Norm Principal Component Analysis [In preparation for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing]
  Taoli Zheng, Peng Wang, and Anthony Man-Cho So.

• Sparse high-order portfolios via proximal DCA and SCA [ICASSP 2021]
  Jinxin Wang, Zengde Deng, Taoli Zheng, Anthony Man-Cho So.

Awards

• [Oct. 2023] NeurIPS 2023 Scholar Award
• [May. 2023] CUHK Reaching Out Award
• [Apr. 2023] Student Travel Award of SIAM OP23
• [July. 2020- July. 2024] CUHK Postgraduate Student Scholarship

Services

Reviewers for

• Transactions on Machine Learning Research
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024

Teaching Assistant

• SEEM3630 Service Management (Instructor: Dr. HO, Sin Cheung), 2023 fall.
• SEEM2440 Engineering Economics (Instructor: Prof. Dohyun Ahn), 2022 fall, 2023 fall.
• ENGG 5501 Foundations of Optimization (Instructor: Prof. Anthony Man-Cho So), 2022 fall.
• ESTR 2004 Discrete Mathematics for Engineers (ELITE Stream) (Instructor: Prof. Anthony Man-Cho So), 2021 fall.
• ENGG1120B Linear Algebra for Engineers (Instructor: Dr. Chi-Kong NG), 2021 spring, 2022 spring.
• ENGG2440B Discrete Mathematics for Engineers (Instructor: Prof. Hoi-To Wai), 2020 fall.