Hongchang Gao
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Assistant Professor |
Brief biography
Hongchang Gao joined the CIS department at Temple University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2020.
Prior to this, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Pittsburgh in 2020, under the supervision of Dr. Heng Huang. He also earned an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Beihang University in 2014
and a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Ocean University of China in 2011. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2024), the AAAI New Faculty Highlights (2023), and the Cisco Faculty Research Award (2023). He regularly serves as an Area Chair for ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR.
Research interests
Machine/Deep Learning, Optimization
Data Mining, Biomedical Data Science
Recent news
03/2026: Honored to serve as an Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
02/2026: One paper on Quantum Computing was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Networking.
02/2026: Honored to receive the Outstanding Program Committee Award at AAAI 2026.
11/2025: Delivered an invited talk on Federated Muon Optimizer at KAUST Workshop on Distributed Training in the Era of Large Models.
11/2025: Honored to be recognized as a Top Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025.
11/2025: My student, Xinwen Zhang, was selected for the ICDM Female Student Award in Data Science. Congrats, Xinwen!
11/2025: Delivered a tutorial on Federated Optimization at ICDM 2025.
09/2025: One paper on Compositional Optimization was accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
09/2025: One paper on Minimax Optimization was accepted to ICDM 2025.
08/2025: Delivered a tutorial on Federated Optimization at IJCAI 2025.
04/2025: One paper on Federated Bilevel Optimization was accepted to IJCAI 2025.
05/2024: Honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award. Thanks to NSF!