Niao He

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Education

• Ph.D. in Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015
• M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015
• B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2010

Academic Positions

• Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, August 2018-present
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC, June 2018-present
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, Feb 2016-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, UIUC, Jan 2015-present

Other Professional Employment

• Research Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Summer 2013
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Summer 2009

Resident Instruction

• IE 598 Optimization Under Uncertainty, Spring 2020
• SE 494 Senior Design Project, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018
• IE 521 Convex Optimization, Spring 2017, Spring 2019
• IE 598 Big Data Optimization, Fall 2016, Spring 2018
• IE 300 Analysis of Data, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2020

Research Interests

• Reinforcement Learning
• Optimization under Uncertainty
• Machine Learning
• Large-scale Optimization

Teaching Honors

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, UIUC (Spring 2018)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, UIUC (Spring 2017)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding, UIUC (Fall 2016)
• Collins Scholar, UIUC (Spring 2016)

Research Honors

• Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellow (2020)
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Fellow (2018)
• NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award (2018)
• SIAM Early Career Travel Award, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2017)
• Best Paper Award, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2016 (2016)

Courses Taught

• IE 300 - Analysis of Data
• IE 521 - Convex Optimization
• IE 598 - Big Data Optimization
• IE 598 - Optimization Under Uncertainty