Hanbaek Lyu
Scholar

Hanbaek Lyu

Google Scholar ID: gDFWvgQAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Mathematics
Probabilitycombinatoricscomplex systemsoptimizationmachine learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
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H-index
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Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
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Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • He is the principal investigator of the following grants:
  • - NSF Grant DMS-2206296 (2022-2025) on “Online Dictionary Learning for Dependent and Multimodal Data Samples: Convergence, Complexity, and Applications”
  • - NSF Grant DMS-2010035 (2020-2023) on “Combinatorial and Probabilistic Approaches to Oscillator and Clock Synchronization”
Research Experience
  • Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and a member of the Institute for Foundations of Data Science. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science at UW-Madison. Previously, he was a Hedrick Assistant Professor at UCLA's Department of Mathematics.
Education
  • Earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from The Ohio State University in 2018, with David Sivakoff as his thesis advisor; earned a B.S. in mathematics from Seoul National University in South Korea.
Background
  • Research interests include discrete probability, matrix factorization, and machine learning. His research is broadly driven by questions related to understanding large discrete systems such as interacting particle systems, networks, and structured random matrices.
Miscellany
  • He is currently organizing the probability seminar at UW-Madison. He is looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students. Interested candidates can send their CV to hlyu@math.wisc.edu.