Team

• Qiushi Lin (PhD)
• Ahmed Shehata (PhD)
• Michael Lu (PhD) (Co-supervised with Mo Chen)

Alumni

• Reza Asad (PhD, 2026) (Co-supervised with Manolis Savva) Thesis: Designing Theoretically Principled and Practical Actor-Critic Algorithms [pdf].
• Xingtu Liu (MSc, 2025) Thesis: Sample Complexity Bounds for Linear Constrained MDPs with a Generative Model [pdf].
  Next Position: PhD at UCLA
• Matin Aghaei (MSc, 2025) Thesis: Convergence of Softmax Policy Gradient: Incorporating Entropy Regularization and Handling Linear Function Approximation [pdf].
  Next Position: Huawei
• Anh Dang (MSc, 2024). Thesis: (Accelerated) Noise-adaptive Stochastic Heavy-Ball Momentum [pdf].
  Next Position: Amazon
• Saurabh Mishra (MSc, 2024). Thesis: From Inverse Optimization to Feasibility to Empirical Risk Minimization [pdf].
  Next Position: Huawei