Biography

Congrats! Zhu Mind / Master Mind was conditionally approved for the HKSTP Programme.

New preprint posted: A Globally Convergent Third-Order Newton Method via Unified Semidefinite Programming Subproblems.

Invited to give a 1-hour research talk at the University of Bath, UK.

New preprint posted: Sufficiently Regularized Nonnegative Quartic Polynomials are Sum-of-Squares.

Our paper Efficient Implementation of Third-Order Tensor Methods with Adaptive Regularization for Unconstrained Optimization appeared in Mathematical Programming Computation.

Our tensor-based Dinkelbach method paper appeared in Applied Numerical Mathematics: link.

Our paper Recover Cell Tensor: Diffusion-Equivalent Tensor Completion for Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging was accepted to ICLR 2026.

Started as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, working on AI in the Mathematical Foundations of AI with Prof. Jared Tanner.

Invited to give a 1-hour online research talk at the University of California.

Organized two minisymposia and gave a talk at ICCOPT 2025, focusing on higher-order optimization and polynomial methods.

Presented recent work at EUROPT 2025 (Southampton) and the Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference (Glasgow).

Awarded Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis Second Prize Awardees 🏆 Link)

Invited to give a 1-hour research talk at Tsinghua University on higher-order optimization methods.

Presenting our LLM Sum-of-Square Solvers in ICML AI4Maths Link

Academic visit and research talks in Shenzhen, including Shenzhen University, CUHK–Shenzhen, and SUSTech.

📝 QQR got accepted for Mathematical Programming! Link

V+A got accepted to IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis! Link)

New paper on Global Optimality Characterizations of Third-Order Taylor Polynomials posted to arXiv Link

A novel tensor-based Dinkelbach-Type method for computing extremal tensor generalized eigenvalues, new Paper posted to arXiv Link

New Paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), new application to radar automatic target recognition Link

📝 New papers submitted and under review. First numeric paper on High-order tensor methods Link !

I am excited to join RisingWISE Training & Development for STEM early career women researchers

📝 CQR got accepted for Mathematical Programming CQR!

🎓 Honoured to be invited to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to give a talk and research visit. Heading to Beijing.

I will be visiting the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China for a research collaboration.

🌟 Thrilled to receive an invitation to the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship Research Workshop with a Travel Grant to travel to the States. *

📝 1 paper submitted and under review, Global Convergence of High-Order Regularization Methods with Sums-of-Squares Taylor Models

📝 1 paper Newsvendor conditional value-at-risk minimisation: A feature-based approach under adaptive data selection got accepted by EJOR.

📝 Two papers submitted and under review. Go CQR and QQR!

Invited for Mini symposia in the Optimization 2023 Conference at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Honoured to present my research at the Biennial Numerical Analysis Meeting at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

I had an amazing time presenting at the SIAM Conference on Optimization in Seattle, U.S.

Research visit to the CIMDA Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis in Hong Kong, China.

📝 🏅 NeurIPS Workshop Spotlight Talk Award for “The Benefits of Higher-Order Optimization in Machine Learning Workshop.” link

Presented in the IMA Conference on the Mathematical Challenges of Big Data in Oxford, UK.

Presented my research at the IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization in Birmingham, UK. My first presentation in conference!

💼 Awarded Full DPhil Studentship, funded by INNOHK and CIMDA Centre partnership to support my PhD research, starting my PhD Journey!

🥇 M.Sc. Prize for Excellence for graduating top 1 in the cohort in M.Sc. degree in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing from.

🏅 Catherine Hughes Fund Internship Award from Somerville College, Oxford for research excellence.

📚 DTP Studentship and Industrial CASE Studentship funded by UKRI-BBSRC and Syngenta Group awarded*

📝 🏆 Archibald Jackson Prize and St. Hugh’s College Scholarship awarded for academic distinction at Oxford (2011-2014).