Mentoring
I advise PhD students in the Department of Mathematics at NC State and mentor undergraduate researchers through NC State's GEARS program (Global Training Initiative), which brings international undergraduates to Raleigh for a six-week research experience.
PhD students
Undergraduate research
2026 Summer GEARS (July 6 to August 13, 2026)
Jiaying Ye (University of Sheffield). Compression of image and text embeddings for cross-modal retrieval. Her paper Validation-to-Test Transfer of Post-Hoc Compression for Efficient Vision-Language Retrieval (J. Ye and C. Chen) was accepted at IEEE ETECOM 2026.
Junxiang Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen). Numerical stability of orthogonalization algorithms.
Zhenhui Yuan (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University). Worst-case error in low-rank matrix completion.
Fengyu Zou (Duke Kunshan University). Similarity kernels in a data-driven method.
2026 Winter GEARS (online)
Yu Li (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) and Xiangzhe Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen). Project: Adaptive Stopping Rule for Power Iteration in Randomized SVD. First place, 2026 Winter GEARS poster competition.
Earlier
SIAM-UT Applied Math Mentor, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2021.
Moncrief Undergraduate Summer Internship Program, University of Texas at Austin, Summers 2019 and 2020.
Army High Performance Computing Research Center Summer Institute, Stanford University, Summer 2014.
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