Short Bio
Yan Yang is a fourth-year PhD student at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, advised by Prof. Ya-xiang Yuan. Before this, he received the Bachelor degree (2022) in mathematics at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on low-rank optimization, bilevel optimization, and Riemannian optimization.
News
12-15: Honored to be selected for the Doctoral Fellowship under CAST’s Youth Talent Development Program (中国科协青年人才培育工程-博士生专项计划) 🌱
11-29: New preprint - “Variational analysis of determinantal varieties”
09-30: Awarded the Hua Luogeng Scholarship at AMSS 🎖️
05-05: Awarded the SIAM Certificate of Recognition 🎖️
01-24: New preprint - “A space-decoupling framework for optimization on bounded-rank matrices with orthogonally invariant constraints”
01-23: New paper accepted in AISTATS 2025 - “Bilevel Reinforcement Learning via the Development of Hyper-gradient without Lower-Level Convexity”
01-23: New paper accepted in ICLR 2025 - “LancBiO: dynamic Lanczos-aided bilevel optimization via Krylov subspace”
Refereed papers & preprints
View All →Variational analysis of determinantal varieties
arXiv:2511.22613 2025
A space-decoupling framework for optimization on bounded-rank matrices with orthogonally invariant constraints
arXiv:2501.13830 2025
Bilevel Reinforcement Learning via the Development of Hyper-gradient without Lower-Level Convexity
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2025