Highlights (So Far)

Michael with Jiyan Yang, Dheevatsa Mudigere, and Maxim Naumov during his 2019 Facebook research internship

Facebook research internship, summer 2019 — Jiyan Yang, Dheevatsa Mudigere, me, and Maxim Naumov.

Michael with Jorge Nocedal and Andreas Wächter after his 2021 Ph.D. defense, with Luís Nunes Vicente and Peter Tang joining by video

The relief after my Ph.D. defense (Northwestern, August 2021) — Jorge Nocedal, me, and Andreas Wächter; Luís Nunes Vicente and Peter Tang joined by video.

Colleagues along a long café table; Michael at right foreground

Celebrating Shampoo v1’s launch (spring 2023) — Tao Hu, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Shintaro Iwasaki, me, and Minhui Huang.

Michael on a sunny walk with Zhijing Li and Kaushik Rangadurai

Celebrating Shampoo v1’s launch, part 2 (summer 2023) — Zhijing Li, Kaushik Rangadurai, and me.

Fifteen conference attendees with name badges; Michael front row, second from left

Jorge Nocedal’s academic family tree — SIOPT, Seattle (June 2023).

Seven colleagues on a sidewalk at dusk

Dinner out with the AI and Systems Co-Design team (summer 2023).

Fifteen colleagues in front of the K1 Speed checkered wall

AI and Systems Co-Design team at K1 Speed.

Six men around a hot pot table

Dinner with the Shampoo v2 team (December 2023) — Wang Zhou, me, Shintaro Iwasaki, Ke Sang, Tsung-Hsien Lee, and Minhui Huang.

Training algorithms pod at NeurIPS 2025

Training algorithms pod at NeurIPS 2025 — (back row) me, Charlotte Abrahamson, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Parameswaran Raman, Runa Eschenhagen; (front row) Anna Cai, Iris Zhang, Shagun Gupta, Ke Sang, Gavin Zhang.

The training algorithms pod at Meta in August 2026

The training algorithms pod in August 2026 — Jihao Andreas Lin, Shagun Gupta, Iris Zhang, Anna Cai, Gavin Zhang, Kang An, Parameswaran Raman (me in front).