YUAN Yancheng
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
I also serve as an Associate Director of the the University Centre for AI Computing (from July 1st, 2026), an Assistant Director of the Research Center for Intelligent Operations Research and an Associate Director of the CITIC-PolyU Interdisciplinary Mathematical Digital AI Joint Laboratory. Previously, I was a research fellow at NUS NExT Center, mentored by Prof. Tat-Seng CHUA.
Education
Research Interests
- Optimization Algorithm design, analysis, and solver development.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundation models and mathematical foundations for data science.
- Data-driven Applications Recommendation systems and healthcare analytics.
Selected Recognitions
- Keynote Speaker, Korean Statistical Society Summer Conference, 2026
- 青年邀请报告人, 中国运筹学会数学规划分会第十五届全国数学优化学术会议, 2025
- Best Paper Award Finalist, ACM SIGIR, 2024
- Best Paper Award Finalist, ACM WWW, 2021
Selected Open-source Software
HPR-LP
SolverA GPU-accelerated solver for large-scale linear programming.
HPR-QP
SolverA GPU-accelerated solver for large-scale convex composite quadratic programming.
HOT
Optimal TransportA GPU-accelerated solver designed specifically for large-scale 2D optimal transport problems.
Adaptive Sieving
A MATLAB software designed to use adaptive sieving (a dimension reduction technique) for sparse optimization problems.
LAMBDA
LLM AgentA coding-free multi-agent data analysis system leveraging the power of large language models.