Rongjie Lai
Professor
Office: MATH 414
Email: lairj at purdue dot edu
Student/Postdoc Positions: We are always looking for highly self-motivated students/postdocs with solid math backgrounds. Please email me if you are interested in joining the group.
Weekly Seminars: "Mathematics in Imaging, Data and Optimization"
Recent News:
09/2023: The first annual meeting of SIAM-NNP will be held at NJIT in Oct. Welcome to join us! Meanwhile, Jiajia Yu and I also co-organize a mini-sympoisium on Optimal Transport: Computation, Applications, and Extensions.
07/2023: I am thrilled to annouce that I have joined Purdue University as a professor in the department of Mathematics. I am grateful for all the valuable experiences I gained during my time at RPI and I'm looking forward to embarking on this new journey at Purdue. If you are interested in learning more about the available graduate students and postdoc positions and the research opportunities in my group, please feel free to email me.
03/2023: Jiajia Yu has successfully passed her Ph.D. dissertation defense. She will join the math department at Duke University as a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor in fall 2023. Congratulations, Dr. Jiajia Yu!
9/2022: I am excited to collaborate with Dr. Chunyu Wang (RPI) for the NIH-funded project, "Method development for simultaneous automatic assignment and structure determination in protein NMR".
08/2022: Our proposal for creation of New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM NYNJPA) has been officially approved.
03/2022: Together with Stefan Schoshenck (UC Davis) and Alex Cloninger (UCSD), we organize a minisymposium on "Geometric Methods for Understanding and Applying Machine Learning", SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, March 2022.
09/2021: I am excited to collaborate with Dr. Tianyi Chen (RPI) and Dr. Jie Chen (IBM Research, unpaid) for the NSF SCALE MoDL program on "Representation Learning via Variational Mean Field Theory".
09/2021: Together with Pablo Suárez Serrato (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Minh Ha Quang (RIKEN), and Guido Montúfar (UCLA), we organize a workshop on "Geometry and Learning from Data", BIRS-CMO, Oct., 2021.
Upcoming talks:
PDEs and Geometry: Numerical Aspects, ICERM, March, 2024
Mini-sympoisium in the annaual meeting of SIAM-NNP section, NJIT, Oct, 2023.
Summer School and Workshop on Computational and Data Science, Duke University, Aug, 2023.
Trustworthy and Efficient Machine Learning (Online), The 6th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics, Tokyo, Japan, Aug, 2023.
Lisbon Webinar, Mathematics, Physics and Machine Learning (Online), Lisbon, April 2023.
East Coast Optimization Meeting, George Mason University, VA, April, 2023
Numerical Seminar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, April, 2023.
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, Feb 2023.
Analytics Seminar, STR, Boston, Feb, 2023.
MSRI Special Session on Applied and Computational Mathematics in Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), Boston, Jan, 2023.