Teaching

Teaching at CU

• 2024 Spring
  • APPM 4490/5490 Theory of Machine Learning
• 2023 Fall
  • COEN 1830 First-year seminar
  • APPM 4440 Real Analysis
• 2023 Spring
  • APPM 5450 Applied Analysis 2
  • APPM 5630 Advanced Convex Optimization
• 2022 Fall, on sabbatical and not teaching
• 2022 Spring
  • APPM 4490/5490 Theory of Machine Learning (previously taught as a special topics course)
  • MATH/STAT 4540/5540 Introduction to Time Series
• 2021 Fall
  • APPM/STAT 5650 Randomized Algorithms (previously taught as a special topics course)
• 2021 Spring
  • APPM 5630 Advanced Convex Optimization (previously taught as a special topics course)
• 2020 Fall
  • APPM 4650 Numerical Analysis
• 2020 Spring
  • Theory of Machine Learning special topics PhD class
• 2019 Fall
  • APPM 5440 Applied Analysis
• 2019 Spring
  • APPM 4720/5720 Special Topics: Randomized Algorithms
• 2018 Fall
  • APPM 4720/5720 Special Topics: Advanced Topics in Convex Optimization)
  • Also taught Spring 2016
• 2015 Spring
  • APPM 5450 Applied Analysis 2
• 2014 Fall
  • APPM 5440 Applied Analysis 1

Summer STEM camp (Aurora and Longmont Colorado)

Thanks to CU Office of Outreach and Northrop Grumman for supporting this

• We did this again in July 2022 and 2023; these years, I didn’t help with teaching but organized a visit to CU to see research groups
• Happening again in July 2021 (but only in Longmont/online): see Innovation Center Super STEM camps website to register.
  • Github repo with our materials
  • 2021 promo video and the end-of-week summary video professionally produced by the St Vrain Valley School District
• Here is the Aurora/Longmont STEM camp website. In 2020, we also have TCP website and St Vrain 5-Day Superstem camps
• Pictures from 2017, 2018 and 2019 (no picture taken in 2020 since camp is online due to COVID-19)

Statistics, Optimization, Machine Learning seminar

I have been co-running the Stat/Opt/ML seminar with Raf Frongillo (CS) continuously since 2016 (with a break AY 20/21 for COVID-19, and break Fall 2022 for sabbatical).

Here is the StatOptML seminar website

Short courses

• Cape Town, South Africa, Sept 2019
  • The AIMS South Africa Spring School on Mathematics of Data Science in September 2019 (SIAM article describing AIMS)
• Cambridge, England, June 2018
  • CCIMI Distinguished Visitor at Cambridge, giving a CCIMI short-course

Projects created for my classes

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APPM 4490/5490 ML Theory, Spring 2022

APPM 5650 Randomized Algorithms, Fall 2021

APPM 5630 Convex Optimization, Spring 2021

APPM 7400 ML Theory, Spring 2020

APPM 4720 Randomized Algorithms, Spring 2019

APPM 4720 Convex Optimization, Fall 2018

APPM 4720 Convex Optimization, Spring 2017