NEWS

• 🏆 Scholarship Recipient, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2026).

• 📄 [July, 2026] “Which Directions Matter? Sparse Design for Affine Robust Optimization.”  (with M. Duong, J.S Borrero, K. Hua) accepted in UAI 2026. paper  🎉

• 📄 [July, 2026] “Which Data Preserves Decisions? Counterfactual Audits of Decision Protocols” (with M. Duong, K. Hua) accepted in UAI Workshop CDM 2026. 🎉

• 🏆 Student Travel Award, IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2025.

• 📄 [Nov, 2025] “qc-kmeans: A Quantum Compressive K-Means Algorithm for NISQ Devices” (with M. Duong, Y. Mao, K. Hua) accepted in IEEE BigData 2025. paper

• 📄 [Nov, 2025] “QIBONN: A Quantum Inspired Bilevel Optimizer for Neural Networks on Tabular Classification” (with M. Duong, Y. Mao, K. Hua) accepted in IEEE BigData 2025. paper

• 🏆 INFORMS 2025 recognition: Runner Up, Data Mining Best Paper Competition (Theoretical track).

• 🏆 INFORMS 2025 recognition: Honorable Mention, Minority Issues Forum Student Poster Competition. 

• 🎤 [Oct, 2025] Presented “A Scalable Global Optimization Algorithm for Constrained Clustering” at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

• 📄 [Oct, 2025] “A Scalable Global Optimization Algorithm for Constrained Clustering” is on arXiv. paper

• 📄 [Sep, 2025] “SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision Processes” (with X. Xiong, K. Hua, C. Hua) accepted in NeurIPS 2025. paper

• 📄 [June, 2025] “Survival Analysis for the Evolution of Lifespan of Electrical and Electronic Equipment” (with M. Gusukuma) published in TEMSCON LATAM 2025. doi