Biography
Hong-Ming Chiu is an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), working with Prof. Richard Y. Zhang. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (NYCU). He worked with Prof. Carrson C. Fung and Prof. Tian-Sheuan Chang during his undergraduate studies. He is a member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, Mu Sigma Chapter and a former member of IEEE Student Branch at NYCU. His research interests include Machine Learning and Optimization.
Publications
SDP-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation for Neural Network Verification with Tightness of Semidefinite Programming
ICML 2025Vancouver, Canada
Selected for spotlight (one of 313/12107 submissions)
Well-conditioned Primal-Dual Interior-point Method for Accurate Low-rank Semidefinite Programming
Preprint
Fast and Accurate Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices from Noisy Measurements via Preconditioned Non-Convex Gradient Descent
AISTATS 2024Valencia, Spain
Tight Certification of Adversarially Trained Neural Networks via Nonconvex Low-Rank Semidefinite Relaxations
ICML 2023Honolulu, HI
Accelerating SGD for Highly Ill-Conditioned Huge-Scale Online Matrix Completion
NeurIPS 2022New Orleans, LA
Graph Learning and Augmentation Based Interpolation of Signal Strength for Location-Aware Communications
EUSIPCO 2020Amsterdam, NL
Run Time Adaptive Network Slimming for Mobile Environments
ISCAS 2019Sapporo, Japan
Experiences
Aug. 2021 - Present
Ph.D. student @ UIUCCoordinated Science Lab
Optimization, Machine Learning
Advisor: Prof. Richard Y.
Zhang
July 2020 - Feb. 2021
Research Assistant @ NYCU
Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Lab
Knowledge-Graph, Recommender System
Host: Prof. Wen-Huang
Cheng
Spring 2020
Exchange Student @ UIUC
Indep. Study @ Coordinated Science Lab
Model change detection system
Advisor: Prof. Venugopal V. Veeravalli
Summer 2019
Summer Research @ USCSignal Transformation Analysis and Compression Lab
Graph Learning, Variogram, Kriging
Advisor: Prof. Antonio Ortega &
Prof. Carrson C. Fung
Mar. 2019 - July 2020
Undergraduate Researcher @
NYCUSignal Processing and AI Group
Graph Learning, Machine Learning, Communications
Advisor: Prof. Carrson C. Fung
Jun. 2018 - Jan. 2019
Undergraduate Researcher @
NYCUVLSI Signal Processing Lab
Model Pruning, Machine Learning, Data Science
Advisor: Prof. Tian-Sheuan Chang
Feb. 1997
He was Born