Buyun Liang

Computer and Information Science Ph.D. Student

University of Pennsylvania

Biography

I am a Computer and Information Science Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. René Vidal. My research interests have spanned optimization for AI, trustworthy AI and AI for science. Before joining Penn, I obtained a M.S. degree in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. Ju Sun, a M.S. degree in Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. J. Ilja Siepmann, and a B.S. degree in Physics at Nanjing University.

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Interests

Trustworthy AI
Optimization for AI
AI for Science

Education

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, 2023 -
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 🇺🇸
M.S. in Computer Science, 2020 - 2023
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 🇺🇸
M.S. in Materials Science, 2018 - 2020
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 🇺🇸
B.S. in Physics, 2014 - 2018
Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 🇨🇳

Publications

Buyun Liang, Wenjie Zhang, Hengyue Liang, Tim Mitchell, Ying Cui, Ju Sun (2023). NCVX: A General-Purpose Optimization Solver for Machine Learning, and Practical Techniques. In preparation.

Website ICCOPT22 Slides SDM2023 Tutorial Proposal SDM 2023 slides MMLS 2023 Poster 3M Poster (2023)

Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Le Peng, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2023). Optimization for Adversarial Robustness Evaluations and Implications from the Solution Patterns. Under review at International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).

Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Le Peng, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2023). Implications of Solution Patterns on Adversarial Robustness. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision (Art of Robustness).

Buyun Liang, Ryan de Vera, Hengyue Liang, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Qizhi He, Ju Sun (2023). Neural Topology Optimization with Principled Constrained Optimization. In preparation for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.

Buyun Liang, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2022). NCVX: A General-Purpose Optimization Solver for Constrained Machine and Deep Learning. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2022).

Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2022). Optimization for Robustness Evaluation beyond ℓp Metrics. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) & Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2022).

Buyun Liang, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2021). NCVX: A User-Friendly and Scalable Package for Nonconvex Optimization in Machine Learning. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13984.

J. Ilja Siepmann, Jingyi L. Chen, Buyun Liang, Krishnan Mahesh (2020). Effect of Non-Condensable Gas on the Thermophysical Properties of Bubbly Water and on Bubble Collapse Dynamics Probed by Molecular Simulations. 33rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Osaka, Japan, 18-23 October 2020.

Software

NCVX (NonConVeX) is a user-friendly and scalable python software package targeting general nonsmooth NCVX problems with nonsmooth constraints.

NCVX PyGRANSO

Powerlifting

2023 USAPL Ivy League Cup

Body Weight: 74.15kg. Squat: 145kg; Bench Press: 107.5kg; Deadlift: 185kg. Total 437.5kg.

2023 USAPL Ivy League Cup

2023 USA Powerlifting Central and Midwest Regional Championships

Body Weight: 80.25kg. Squat: 160kg; Bench Press: 112.5kg; Deadlift: 195kg. Total 467.5kg.

2023 USA Powerlifting Central and Midwest Regional Championships

Fall 2022 Mock Competition

Body Weight: 77.1kg. Squat: 163.3kg; Bench Press: 115.7kg; Deadlift: 192.8kg. Total 471.7kg.

Fall 2022 Mock Competition

Summer 2022 Mock Competition

Body Weight: 77.3kg. Squat: 154.2kg; Bench Press: 113.4kg; Deadlift: 188.2kg. Total 455.9kg.

Summer 2022 Mock Competition

2022 USA Powerlifting Minnesota Junior, Open & Master State Championships

Body Weight: 76.35kg. Squat: 157.5kg; Bench Press: 105kg; Deadlift: 180kg. Total 442.5kg.

2022 USA Powerlifting Minnesota Junior, Open & Master State Championships

2018 Raise the Bar -- Powerlifting

Body Weight: 75.3kg. Squat: 165.6kg; Bench Press: 102.1kg; Deadlift: 172.4kg. Total 440kg.

2018 Raise the Bar -- Powerlifting

2018 Han Tang Powerlifting (汉唐杯第四届大陆健力纪录赛)

Body Weight: 73.6kg. Squat: 160kg; Bench Press: 95kg; Deadlift: 170kg. Total 425kg.

2018 Han Tang Powerlifting (汉唐杯第四届大陆健力纪录赛)

Contact

byliang at seas dot upenn dot edu
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