Liam Madden

Postdoctoral Fellow

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I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia supervised by Christos Thrampoulidis in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and by Mark Schmidt in the Department of Computer Science. I received my BS from California Polytechnic State University in 2017 with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. I received my MS from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2020 and my PhD in 2022, advised by Emiliano Dall’Anese and Stephen Becker. I enjoy walking in the woods, composing poems, and dancing with friends.

selected publications

  1. Bounds For the Tracking Error of First-Order Online Optimization Methods
    Liam Madden, Stephen Becker, and Emiliano Dall’Anese
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2021
  2. High-probability Convergence Bounds for Non-convex Stochastic Gradient Descent
    Liam Madden, Emiliano Dall’Anese, and Stephen Becker
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05610, 2021
  3. Best Approximate Quantum Compiling Problems
    Liam Madden, and Andrea Simonetto
    ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, 2022
  4. Memory capacity of two layer neural networks with smooth activations
    Liam Madden, and Christos Thrampoulidis
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02001, 2023