Renbo Zhao

Assistant Professor, Department of Business Analytics, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa Address: 108 John Pappajohn Business Building Iowa City, IA 52242 Email: renbo-zhao AT uiowa DOT edu Curriculum Vitae (CV)      Google Scholar

Research Interests

Theory and computational practice for continuous optimization algorithms, with applications in machine learning, data science and operations management.

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Aug. 2023 – Present

• Research Intern, JP Morgan Chase AI, NY, USA, July 2022 – Aug. 2022
  

• Research Intern, Amazon, WA, USA, June 2021 – Aug. 2021
  

• Research Intern, Microsoft Research AI, WA, USA, June 2020 – Aug. 2020
  

• Research Intern, IBM T. J. Waston Research Center, NY, USA, June 2019 – Aug. 2019
  

• Research Intern, EPFL, Switzerland, June 2017 – Aug. 2017
  

• Research Engineer, NUS, Singapore, July 2015 – Aug. 2018
  

Education

• PhD in Operations Research, Sept. 2018 – June 2023
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
  Thesis: New Theory and Algorithms for Optimization Problems with Non-Standard Structures
  Thesis advisor: Robert M. Freund

• Master of Science in Mathematics, Aug. 2016 – June 2018
  National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Thesis: Stochastic and Randomized Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization in Machine Learning
  Thesis advisors: Vincent Y. F. Tan and William B. Haskell

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Aug. 2011 – June 2015
  National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Thesis: Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Outliers
  Thesis advisor: Vincent Y. F. Tan