CV

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2024–2029 (expected)
• B.S. in Computer Science; Honors Mathematics and Honors Statistics, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, 2021–2024

Experience

• Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison — Summer–Fall 2025
  • Research in optimization and learning theory, advised by Prof. Jelena Diakonikolas.
• Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison — Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and 2026
  • CS 220 (Data Science Programming I) and CS 412 (Introduction to Numerical Methods).
• Software Engineering Intern, Amazon Web Services — Summer 2023
  • Boston, Massachusetts.

Publications

• Efficiently Learning Drifting Halfspaces with Massart Noise
  Mingchen Ma, Guyang Cao, Jelena Diakonikolas, Ilias Diakonikolas. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026).

• Robust Learning of a Group DRO Neuron
  Guyang Cao, Shuyao Li, Sushrut Karmalkar, Jelena Diakonikolas. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2026).

Teaching

• CS 412: Introduction to Numerical Methods, Fall 2024, Spring 2026

• CS 220: Data Science Programming I, Spring 2025