Professional Services

Editorial Service

  • Associate Editor, Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, 2025–present.

  • Associate Editor, Optimization Methods and Software, 2025–present.

  • Action Editor, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025–present.

Area Chair Service

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 2024, 2025, 2026.

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): 2025, 2026.

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS): 2025, 2026.

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): 2025, 2026.

Conference Organization and Chairing

  • Cluster Chair: "Continuous Optimization with Machine Learning," International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2027), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2027.

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 2–5, 2026.

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: "Adaptive, Line-Search, and Parameter-Free Stochastic Optimization," International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2024), Montreal, Canada, July 21–26, 2024.

  • Conference Organization Committee: DeepMath Conference, 2023 and 2024.

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: "Recent Advancements in Optimization Methods for Machine Learning," SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23), Seattle, Washington, USA, May 31–June 3, 2023.

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: "Optimization Methods in Machine Learning," 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 22–24, 2023.

  • Cluster Co-Chair: "Optimization for Data Science and Machine Learning," International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2022), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, July 25–28, 2022 (with S. Stich).

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: "Recent Advancements in Optimization Methods for Machine Learning," SIAM Conference on Optimization, Virtual Conference, July 20–23, 2021.

  • Session Chair: "Stochastic Optimization Algorithms," INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2018.

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: "Optimization Methods in Machine Learning," 5th IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, University of Birmingham, UK, September 2016.

  • Mini-symposium Organizer: "Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra," 5th IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, University of Birmingham, UK, September 2016.

  • Seminar Organizer: "All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization," University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015–2017.

Reviewing

  • Grant Proposals:
    Department of Energy (DOE),
    National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • Peer-reviewed Journals:
    Mathematical Programming,
    SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT),
    Mathematics of Operations Research,
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR),
    European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR),
    Numerical Algorithms,
    Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications,
    IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,
    SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS).

  • Peer-reviewed Conferences:
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): 2019–present,
    Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): 2020–present,
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): 2019–present.

  • Workshops:
    Smooth Games Optimization and Machine Learning Workshop, NeurIPS 2019,
    Optimization for Machine Learning Workshop, NeurIPS: 2020–present.

Service at Johns Hopkins University

  • Chair, AI-X Foundry Website Committee.

  • Chair, MINDS Fellows Committee, 2023–present.

  • Organizer, MINDS Weekly Seminar, 2023–present.

  • Member, AMS Communications & Marketing Committee, 2022–2024.

  • Member, MSE in Data Science Admission Committee, 2022–2024.

  • Member, Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Search Committee, 2022–2023.