Talks

Selected talks and seminar presentations.

Mathematical Optimization

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Semidefinite Programming: Theory and Practice

Jun 2026Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Bifurcation of ADMM Dynamics for Semidefinite Programming and Simplicial Regularizability of the Pseudo-Moment Cone

Jun 2026SIAM Conference on Optimization
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Local Linear Convergence of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Semidefinite Programming under Strict Complementarity

Apr 2025Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
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Robotics

Scaling Semidefinite Relaxations for Robot Perception and Planning

Jun 2026Workshop on the Frontiers of Optimization for Robotics, International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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Semidefinite Relaxations for Robot Perception and Control: From Theory to Practice and Back

Dec 2025IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics
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Optimization-Driven Discovery of Contact-Rich Behaviors

Jun 2025LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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The Power of Modern Convex Optimization in Nonconvex Perception, Control, and Learning

Oct 2024LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception

Jun 2022Toronto AI and Robotics Seminar
recording

Machine Learning

Control-oriented Clustering of Visual Latent Representation

Oct 2024Machine Learning Seminar, University of Minnesota
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Control

Online Uncertainty Set Prediction and Set-Membership Estimation

Jul 2025Interplay Between Machine Learning and Set-Based Identification & Control, American Control Conference
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Revisiting the Minimum Enclosing Ellipsoid of Set-Membership Estimation in Control and Perception

Nov 2023Autonomy Talks
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