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Feb 2026	New preprint: Circuit Diameter of Polyhedra is Strongly Polynomial, settling the polynomial circuit diameter conjecture.
Jan 2026	Teaching IEOR 3609 (Advanced Optimization) and EEOR 6616 (Convex Optimization) at Columbia this spring.
Sep 2025	Invited speaker at 14th Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization in Corsica, France.
Jul 2025	Invited talk at Oberseminar Discrete Optimization in Bonn on “A Unified Analytical Approach to Strongly Polynomial Algorithms for Structured Linear Programs”.
Jun 2025	Invited speaker at Summer School on Linear Program Solvers at Georgia Tech, Atlanta.
Oct 2024	I was awarded the Richard Rado Prize for my PhD thesis.
Sep 2024	Invited talk at Yale FDS Colloquium on “Faster Exact Linear Programming”.
Sep 2024	Invited talk at Tutte Colloquium at University of Waterloo.
Jul 2024	I have moved to New York to begin a tenure-track position in IEOR at Columbia University.
Feb 2024	Our paper A strongly polynomial algorithm for linear programs with at most two non-zero entries per row or column got accepted to STOC 2024.
Jan 2024	I am going to serve on the Program Committee of SODA 2025.
Oct 2023	Announced Runner-Up for The Doctoral Award of The Operational Research Society (UK).
Jul 2023	I received the PhD Prize of the Department of Mathematics at LSE.
Feb 2023	I am going to be a long-term participant in Fall 2023 for the Simons Institute program in Data Structures and Optimization for Fast Algorithms.
Feb 2023	I joined ICERM at Brown University for the Spring 2023 term for the program in Discrete Optimization.
Nov 2022	Together with Daniel Dadush we give a mini-symposium On the Role of Circuits in Linear Programming at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23).
Oct 2022	I started a ARC Postdoctoral Fellow position at Georgia Tech, affiliated with ISyE and the College of Computing.
Sep 2022	I passed my PhD Viva with a Thesis titled Exact Linear Programming: Circuits, Curvature, and Diameter.