My legal name is Junhyung Kim (김준형), but I usually go by Lyle. I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rice University, advised by Prof. Anastasios Kyrillidis. I also work closely with Prof. César A. Uribe and Prof. Nai-Hui Chia.
Before joining Rice, I was a research professional at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business supervised by Prof. Panos Toulis.
I received bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Chicago in 2017. During my senior year at the college, I also worked with Prof. Mikael Kuusela under the supervision of Prof. Michael L. Stein.
In summer 2023, I worked as a visitng student researcher at MILA – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute under the supervision of Prof. Gauthier Gidel and Prof. Ioannis Mitliagkas.
In summer 2022, I worked at Meta (Fundamental AI Research) as a research intern under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Defazio.
Here is my CV, and Google Scholar.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019 - present
Rice University
B.A. in Mathematics; B.A. in Statistics, 2017
University of Chicago
[27 Oct 2023] I co-organized Quantum Information Processing Systems (QuantIPS 2023). Thank you to all the speakers and participants!
[29 Sep 2023] I co-organized Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning (TL;DR 2023). Thank you to all the speakers and participants!
[19 June 2023] Adaptive Federated Learning with Auto-Tuned Clients via Local Smoothness got accepted at ICML 2023 Federated Learning Workshop. My poster is available here.
[08 May 2023] I started my summer research visit at MILA under the supervision of Prof. Ioannis Mitliagkas and Prof. Gauthier Gidel.
[20 Apr 2023] I completed my PhD Proposal. Committee: Profs. Anastasios Kyrillidis (chair), César A. Uribe, and Nai-Hui Chia.