I am Liuyuan Jiang, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Dr. Tianyi Chen. With a background in statistics and mathematics, my academic focus lies in the realms of Optimization and Machine Learning.

📰 News

May 2025: Im joining in IBM Research for summer internship at Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY
May 2025: Our paper is ACCEPTED by EUSIPCO 2025: Improved Analysis of Penalty-Based Methods for Bilevel Optimization with Coupled Constraints
Apr 2025: I am hornored to be awarded Best Reviewer Award for AISTATS 2025
Dec 2024: I am presenting my work A Primal-Dual-Assisted Penalty Approach to Bilevel Optimization with Coupled Constraints at NeurIPS 2024. See you at Vancouver
Sept 2024: Our paper is ACCEPTED by NeurIPS 2024: A Primal-Dual-Assisted Penalty Approach to Bilevel Optimization with Coupled Constraints
June 2024: Our paper is available: A Primal-Dual-Assisted Penalty Approach to Bilevel Optimization with Coupled Constraints

📝 Publications

Liuyuan Jiang, Quan Xiao, Tianyi Chen, “Improved Analysis of Penalty-Based Methods for Bilevel Optimization with Coupled Constraints”, 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025), 2025

Liuyuan Jiang, Quan Xiao, Victor Tenorio, Fernando Real-Rojas, Antonio Marques, Tianyi Chen, “A Primal-Dual-Assisted Penalty Approach to Bilevel Optimization with Coupled Constraints”, Neural Information Processing Systems 37, 2024

🎖 Honors and Awards

AISTATS 2025 Best Reviewer Award

NeurIPS 2024 scholar award

📖 Educations

2023 - Now, PhD student in Computer & System Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2022 - 2023, MPS Applied Statistics, Cornell University
2018 - 2022, BSc Financial Mathematics, University of Liverpool

💬 Project Experience

2023.01-05 Master’s Capstone Project, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Assessing Food Security Indicators and Livelihoods of Rural Households in Malawi: A Data Analysis Report for the Catholic Relief Services Project

💻 Internships

2025.05 - 08, Research Intern, IBM Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
2022.06 - 08, Quantitative Analyst Intern, Hudsun Technology, China.