education: lijun ding earned his phd in operations research from cornell university in 2021.

research: lijun ding specializes in continuous optimization, especially in semidefinite programming and applications of optimization in statistics.

teaching: lijun ding will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in optimization and data science.  

prior to uc san diego: lijun ding was an assistant professor at the department of industrial and systems engineering at texas a&m university in 2024. before that, he was a post-doctoral scholar at the institute of foundations of data science (ifds)  at the university of wisconsin and the university of washington from 2021 to 2023.