Education

1. Ph.D. (2009), Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Advisor: Prof. Toh Kim Chuan, Co-advisor: Prof. Defeng Sun;

2. M.Sc. (2002), Department of Computational Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics;

3. B.Sc.(1999), Department of Computational Mathematics,Nanjing Universityof Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Areas

1. Matrix Optimization Problems: algorithms, applications, and theory;

2. Fast algorithms for large scale statistical and machine learning problems;

Publications

1. Liang Chen, Junyuan Zhu, and Xinyuan Zhao: Unified convergence analysis of a second-order method of multipliers for nonlinear conic programming, Science China Mathematics, 2022, 65: 2397-2422

2. Y. Cui, C. Ding, X.D. Li and X.Y. Zhao, Augmented Lagrangian methods for convex matrix optimization problems, Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, DOI: 10.1007/s40305-021-00346-9, 2021.

3. Zhang, Q. Zhao, XY, and Ding, C, Matrix optimization based Euclidean embedding with outliers, COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS, 2021, 79(2): 235-271.

4. M.Y. Chen, K.X. Gao, X.L. Liu, Z.D. Wang, N.X. Ni, Q. Zhang, L. Chen, C. Ding, Z.H. Huang, M. Wang, S.L. Wang, F. Yu, X.Y. Zhao and D.C. Xu, THOR, Trace-Based Hardware-Driven Layer-Oriented Natural Gradient Descent Computation, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021, 35(8), 7046-7054.

5. Z.X. Jiang, X.Y. Zhao, and C. Ding, A proximal DC approach for quadratic assignment problem, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2021, 78(3): 825-851.

6. Xin-Yuan Zhao and Liang Chen, The Linear and Asymptotically Superlinear Convergence Rates of the Augmented Lagrangian Method with a Practical Relative Error Criterion, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2020, 37(4), 2040001.

7. D.F. Sun, K.C. Toh, Y.C. Yuan, and X.Y. Zhao, SDPNAL+: A Matlab software for semidefinite programming with bound constraints (version 1.0), Optimization Methods and Software, 35 (2020), 87-115. arXiv:1710.10604

8. Ying Cui, Chao Ding, and Xinyuan Zhao, Quadratic growth conditions for convex matrix optimization problems associated with spectral functions, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2017, 27(4): 2332-2355.

9. Bai Yan, Qi Zhao, Zhihai Wang and Xinyuan Zhao, A hybrid evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective sparse reconstruction, Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2017, 11(6): 993-1000.

10. X. Y. Zhao, T. Cai, and D. Xu, A Newton-CG Augmented Lagrangian Method for Convex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Semidefinite Programs, Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 95(2015), pp 337-345.

11. Chenchen Wu, Dachuan Xu, and Xinyuan Zhao, Improved approximation algorithm for the 2-catalog segmentation problems using semidefinite programming relaxations, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 2012, 8(1): 117-126.

12. Xin-Yuan Zhao and Kim-Chuan Toh, Infeasible potential reduction algorithms for Semidefinite Programming, Pacific Journal of Optimization, 2012, 8(4): 725-753.

13. Xing Wang, Dachuan Xu, and Xinyuan Zhao, A primal-dual approximation algorithm for the stochastic facility location problem with service installation costs, Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2011, 6(5): 957-964.

14. Xin-Yuan Zhao, Defeng Sun, and Kim-Chuan Toh, A Newton-CG augmented Lagrangian method for semidefinite programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2010, 20: 1737-1765.

Research Projects

1. 2023-2026, Convex composite quadratic conic optimization problems: algorithms and softwares, NSFC (NO. 12271015), PI.

2. 2022-2023, Fast optimization algorithm for super large-scale system arising in wireless communication, Industry Project, PI.

3. 2019-2022, the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 11871002).

4. 2018-2019, the General Program of Science and Technology of Beijing Municipal Education Commission.

5. 2014-2016，Development Program for the Internationalization of Youth Mentors of Beijing University of Technology,

6. 2012-2014，the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China (No.11101016).

7. 2011，the Doctor Startup Fund of Beijing Universityof Technology.

Current Professional Societies

1. Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (October, 2022 - )

2. Board member of the Mathematical Programming Branch of OR Society of China;

3.  Board member of Operations Research Society of Beijing.

Current Professional Societies

1. Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (October, 2022 - )

2. Board member of the Mathematical Programming Branch of OR Society of China;

3. Board member of Operations Research Society of Beijing.