Experience

 
 
 
 
 

(Tenure-track) Associate Professor

Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep 2022 – Present Beijing, China
Academic staff of LSEC and ICMSEC
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc

University of Münster

Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 Münster, Germany
Host: Benedikt Wirth
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc

UCLouvain

Sep 2019 – Aug 2021 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Host: P.-A. Absil

Publications

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Refereed papers & preprints

LancBiO: dynamic Lanczos-aided bilevel optimization via Krylov subspace. arXiv:2404.03331, (2024).

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Riemannian preconditioned algorithms for tensor completion via tensor ring decomposition. Computational Optimization and Applications, (2024), accepted.

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Optimization on the symplectic Stiefel manifold: SR decomposition-based retraction and applications. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 682 (2024), 50–85.

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Low-rank optimization on Tucker tensor varieties. arXiv:2311.18324, (2023).

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Alternating minimization algorithms for graph regularized tensor completion. arXiv:2008.12876, (2023).

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Optimization on product manifolds under a preconditioned metric. arXiv:2306.08873, (2023).

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Infeasible deterministic, stochastic, and variance-reduction algorithms for optimization under orthogonality constraints. arXiv:2303.16510, (2023).

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Optimization flows landing on the Stiefel manifold. 25th IFAC Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2022), IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55-30 (2022), 25–30.

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On the analysis of optimization with fixed-rank matrices: a quotient geometric view. arXiv:2203.06765, (2022).

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An orthogonalization-free parallelizable framework for all-electron calculations in density functional theory. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 44-3 (2022), B723–B745.

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New Riemannian preconditioned algorithms for tensor completion via polyadic decomposition. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 43-2 (2022), 840–866.

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A Riemannian rank-adaptive method for low-rank matrix completion. Computational Optimization and Applications, 81 (2022), 67–90.

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Computing symplectic eigenpairs of symmetric positive-definite matrices via trace minimization and Riemannian optimization. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 42-4 (2021), 1732–1757.

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Geometry of the symplectic Stiefel manifold endowed with the Euclidean metric. Geometric Science of Information: 5th International Conference, GSI 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12829 (2021), 789–796.

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Riemannian optimization on the symplectic Stiefel manifold. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 31-2 (2021), 1546–1575.

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Multipliers correction methods for optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold. CSIAM Transactions on Applied Mathematics, 2-3 (2021), 508–531.

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Parallelizable algorithms for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 41-3 (2019), A1949–A1983.

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A new first-order algorithmic framework for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 28-1 (2018), 302–332.

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First-order algorithms for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. OR Transactions (in Chinese), 21-4 (2017), 57–68.

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On the Łojasiewicz exponent of the quadratic sphere constrained optimization problem. arXiv:1611.08781, (2016).

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Thesis

Bin Gao, Optimization with Orthogonality Constraints: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Ph.D. thesis, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019, in Chinese). PDF Slides

Research

Collaborators & students

Long-term collaborators:

PhD & students in cooperation:

  • Xinhui Xiong (2024.9-), from Wuhan University
  • Yan Yang (cooperation from 2023.8-), from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Renfeng Peng (cooperation from 2022.11-), from Tongji University

Postdocs:

  • Zhen Peng (2023.11-), PhD from Beihang University

Selected presentations

Date Conference Place
2024.07 The 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2024) Montréal, Canada
2024.06 The 21st EUROPT Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2024) Lund, Sweden
2024.05 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA24) Paris, France
2023.09 Autumn School on Control of Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Optimization Hanoi, Vietnam
2023.08 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023) Tokyo, Japan
2021.07 5th conference on Geometric Science of Information (GSI’21) Paris, France
2018.07 The 23nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2018) Bordeaux, France
2016.06 The 11th East Asia SIAM Conference (EASIAM2016) Macao, China

Academic visits

Duration Place Host
2023.09.07-09.22 Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam VIASM
2019.07.20-08.18 University of Macau, Macau Guanghui Hu

Selected awards
2021 Zhong Jiaqing Mathematics Award 钟家庆数学奖
2018 Best student paper award of CSIAM 2018
2018 CAS special prize of president scholarship 中科院院长特别奖
2017 National scholarship for doctoral student 国家奖学金 博士
2016 Honor student award of international workshop on modern optimizaion and application

Grants & programs

As the PI
2023.12-2026.12 National High-level Young Talents Program 国家海外高层次人才计划
2023.06-2025.05 National Science and Technology Major Project
2023.02-2025.12 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 中科院海外高层次人才计划
2023.01-2025.12 Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST 中国科协青年人才托举工程
As a member
2023.12-2028.12 National Key R&D Program of China

Software

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All Orthogonality constraints Symplectic Stiefel manifold Low rank

A Riemannian Rank-Adaptive Method for low-rank matrix completion
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Symplectic eigenvalue problem via trace minimization and Riemannian optimization
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Riemannian optimization on the symplectic Stiefel manifold
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Parallelizable Column-wise Augmented Lagrangian approaches for optimization with orthogonality constraints
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A First-Order Framework for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints.
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Contact

  • gaobin (.a.t.) lsec.cc.ac.cn
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