Songtao Lu           

Songtao Lu received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in August 2018. He was a Postdoc Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota from Sept. 2018 to Sept. 2019, and AI resident with the Mathematics of AI group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2020. His research interests lie in the areas of optimization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and signal processing.