Zhiyuan Liu | PhD @ University of Colorado, Boulder
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Zhiyuan Liu, Ph.D |
News
[04-2021] I successfully defend my thesis and will join Google after this semester.
[01-2021] One US Patent has been published with publication number US 2021/0013720 A1.
[08-2020] Our paper "Multi-Level Optimal Power Flow Solver in Large Distribution Networks " has been accepted for publication in the IEEE SmartGridComm'20.
[07-2020] I successfully defend my thesis proposal with title "Strategic Manipulations in Bandit Problems".
[07-2020] Our paper "A Smoothed Analysis of Online Lasso for the Sparse Linear Contextual Bandit Problem" has been accepted by Workshop on Real World Experiment Design and Active Learning at ICML 2020
[06-2020] Our paper "Gradient-Based Multi-Area Distribution System State Estimation" has been accepted for publication as a Full Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
[05-2020] I received ACC 2020 student travel award.
[05-2020] Our paper "Reverse and Forward Engineering of Local Voltage Control in Distribution Networks" has been accepted for publication as a Full Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
[04-2020] I received Departmental Summer Research Fellowship. Thank the graduate committee of CS department, CU Boulder.
About me
I am a Ph.D candidate of Computer Science at University of Colorado, Boulder, under the guidance of Dr. Lijun Chen. My interests lie in Online learning, distributed algorithm design and analysis, optimization and its engineering applications and game theory
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Aug. 2015 - May 2021
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Sept. 2011 - Jun. 2015
Research Interests
Optimization
Networked System Control
Online Learning