Ernest K. Ryu

This page contains the recent news of our group.
I have been featured in the OpenAI Podcast episode titled What happens now that AI is good at math?
Talk at the Berkeley IEOR Seminar titled Point Convergence of Nesterov’s Accelerated Gradient Method: An AI-Assisted Proof.
I have been featured in the Quanta Magazine article titled The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived.
I have been featured in the Financial Times article titled Artificial intelligence groups test capabilities of models with unsolved maths questions.
I am joining OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff while taking a leave of absence from UCLA.
In-person talk at ICCOPT 2025.
In-person talk at the Seoul National University Graduate School of Data Science Seminar.
Our group has 1 papers accepted to ICML as an oral:
Our ICLR 2025 Workshop on Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy was a blast!
I received the Sloan Research Fellowship.
Talk at the Princeton Optimization Seminar titled Toward a grand unified theory of accelerations in optimization and machine learning.
Talk at the UCSD Control & Pizza seminar titled Optimization Algorithm Design via Electric Circuits.
Our group has 2 papers accepted to ICLR:
In-person talk at the Johns Hopkins University Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS) Seminar.
Our group has 2 papers accepted to NeurIPS, one as a spotlight:
In-person talk at the UCLA Applied Math Colloquium.
I received the INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers.
In-person talk at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
I joined UCLA Math as an assistant professor in fall 2024. I will dearly miss my time at Seoul National University.
Sehyun received the Youlchon AI Research Fellowship (율촌 AI 장학생).
I gave an in-person talk at the European Congress of Mathematics held in Seville, Spain.
I gave an in-person talk at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT).
I gave an in-person talk at the One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna hosted at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics.
Our group has 2 papers accepted to ICML, one as a spotlight and as an oral:
Jaewook will be joining the Rice University Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Department as a postdoc in fall 2024. We wish Jaewook the best for his very promising academic career.
TaeHo will be joining the Johns Hopkins University Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics as a postdoc in January 2025. We wish TaeHo the best for his very promising academic career.
Jisun will be joining the Princeton University Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering as a postdoc in fall 2024. We wish Jisun the best for her very promising academic career.
I gave talk at the Yonsei University Department of Artificial Intelligence titled In Deep Learning, What Should Mathematical Theory Look Like?
I gave a talk in the SNU Mathematics department Gauss Colloquium.
I gave a talk at KSIAM Spring Conference for receiving the KSIAM Outstanding Young Investigator Award.
Jaeyeon will be joining the Harvard CS Ph.D. program in Fall 2024. We wish Jaeyeon the best for his very promising academic career.
Jinhee will be joining the Stanford CME (Applied Math) Ph.D. program in Fall 2024. We wish Jinhee the best for his very promising academic career.
I gave an in-person talk at Korean Mathematical Society Spring Meeting. (대한수학회 봄 연구발표회)
I gave an in-person talk at the KAIST Graduate School of AI Colloquium.
I gave an in-person talk at the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference.
I gave an in-person talk at the SNU statistics colloquium.
I gave an in-person talk at the KAIST Stochastic Analysis and Application RCenter (SAARC)Colloquium .
I gave an in-person talk at KIAS.
I received the Education Prize from the College of Natural Science of Seoul National University.