Preprints

• Rounding the Lovász Theta Function with a Value Function Approximation (under major revision)
• Dynamic Interval Scheduling with Random Start and End Times (under major revision)
• Deriving Quadratic Assignment Solutions from Semidefinite Relaxations (working on)

Publications

Talks

• Dynamic Interval Scheduling with Random Start and End Times, Informs Optimization Society, Atlanta, U.S.A., March 20, 2026
• Rounding the Lov'asz Theta Function with a Value Function Approximation, INFORMS, Atlanta, U.S.A. October 26, 2025
• Value Function Approximation for Maximum Stable Set Problem, Combinatorial Optimisation and Graph Theory Session, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2024), Montreal, Canada. July 26, 2024
• Low-Rank Plus Sparse Decompositions of Large-Scale Matrices via Semidefinite Optimization, MMATH Thesis Talk, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. May 3, 2023
• Convex Optimization, Factor Analysis and Realizability of a Subspace, Graduate Research Seminar, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. April 11, 2022

Posters

• Deriving Quadratic Assignment Solutions from Semidefinite Relaxations, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2026, Poster Finalist, University of Connecticut. May 18, 2024
• Rounding the Lovasz Theta Function with a Value Function Approximation, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2024, Poster Finalist, University of Kentucky. March 4, 2024

Thesis

• R.Gong Low-Rank Plus Sparse Decompositions of Large-Scale Matrices via Semidefinite Optimization. MMATH Thesis, University of Waterloo, May 2023