Invited speaker at the Complexity & Algorithms Workshop 2026 (C&A 2026), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, March 2026, "Distributionally Robust Optimization Based on Optimal Transport Theory and Its Applications".
Invited speaker at the 2025 Workshop on Intelligent Computing and Clustering Algorithms, Central South University, July 2025, "Relax and Merge: A Simple Yet Effective Framework for Solving Fair k-Means and k-sparse Wasserstein Barycenter Problems".
Invited speaker at the 13th Sino-German Frontiers of Science Symposium, Chinese Academy of Sciences, April 2024, "Robust Machine Learning Algorithm for Breast Cancer Screening".
Invited speaker at the 2022 Workshop on Big Data and Theoretical Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, December 2022, "Sublinear and Robust Greedy Algorithms for Several High-dimensional Optimization Problems".
Invited speaker at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, June 2021, "Data-dependent Coreset for Large-scale, Robust, and Dynamic Machine Learning".
Invited speaker at the ITCS Seminar, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, June 2021, "Data-dependent Coreset for Large-scale, Robust, and Dynamic Machine Learning".
Invited speaker at the School of Software, Shandong University, November 2020, "Towards Robust Optimization: Three Different Random Sampling Approaches".
Invited speaker at "Emerging Topics in Computing Symposium" in conjunction with CSE 50th anniversary of SUNY at Buffalo, September, 2017, "Balanced k-Center Clustering When k is a Constant".
Invited speaker in Simons Institute of the Theory and Computing, UC Berkeley, June 2017, "Protein Mover's Distance: A Geometric Approach for Global Alignment of PPI Networks".
Seminar Talk (invited speaker) in SUNY at Buffalo (April 2017) and Nanjing University (May 2017), "Novel Geometric Techniques for Reducing Communication Cost in Distributed Data Analysis".
Invited for One Hour Featured Talk in Simons Center, SUNY Stony Brook, April 2017, "Simplex Lemma And The Applications in Data Analysis".
Seminar Talk (invited speaker) in University of Notre Dame, August 2016, "Geometry Meets Big Data: from Theory to Practice".
Seminar Talk (invited speaker) in Nanjing University (April 2015), Tsinghua University (September 2015), Zhongshan University (July 2016), "Novel Geometric Algorithms for Machine Learning Problems".
China Theory Week (invited speaker), Beijing, China, September 2014, "Sub-linear Time Hybrid Approximations for Least Trimmed Squares Estimator and Related Problems".