About Me

Hi! I’m Xinwen Ding, a third-year Math Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto. My supervisor is Adam Stinchcombe. My research interests are numerical analysis, scientific machine learning, and mathematical optimization.

Before joining UofT, I spent five enriching undergraduate years at the University of Waterloo, where I studied Applied Math, Combinatorics & Optimization, and Computational Math. I was fortunate to be guided by Prof. Stephen Vavasis, Prof. Giang Tran, and Prof. Anderson Ang on continuous (and sparse) optimization for data science, and by Prof. Christopher Batty on fluid simulation. Apart from working with faculty members at UWaterloo, I was honored to be selected as one of the MIT Summer Geometry Initiative (SGI) Fellows in 2022. Also, I was an undergraduate research assistant at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

While not in front of my computer, I enjoy swimming, playing badminton, and I recently picked up figure skating. See you at the Varsity Center!

Contact: xinwen [dot] ding [at] mail [dot] utoronto [dot] ca

News

• 2025/09/01: Check out my lastest manuscript here!
• 2025/01/08: I passed my qualification exam!
• 2024/09: Excited to share that I was awarded the Martin Shubik Graduate Award in Mathematics.
• 2023/03/23: My first paper is officially accepted by ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2023.