Cheng Chen
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Tenure-track Associate Professor |
About Me
I am currently a tenure-track associate professor in Software Engineering Institute of East China Normal University. Previously I worked at Nanyang Technological University as a research fellow. I received my PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I was fortunate enough to be advised by Yong Yu and Zhihua Zhang. During the PhD, I was visiting the math department of UC Berkeley, hosted by Ming Gu. Prior to that, I received my bachelor's degree from ACM Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Prospective students:
I am always looking for outstanding and highly self-motivated students to work with me. Please email me with your CV and transcripts if you are interested.
Research Interest
My research interest is in developing practical machine learning algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees, with a focus on
online learning
reinforcement learning
fast and scalable optimization methods
matrix low-rank approximation
streaming numerical linear algebra