I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Amitabh Basu. My research interests include integer programming, convex analysis, and discrete geometry.

📚 Publications

Learning Cut Generating Functions for Integer Programming

Hongyu Cheng and Amitabh Basu. Published in Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Sample Complexity of Algorithm Selection Using Neural Networks and Its Applications to Branch-and-Cut

Hongyu Cheng, Sammy Khalife, Barbara Fiedorowicz, and Amitabh Basu. Published in Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
Neural Networks with Linear Threshold Activations: Structure and Algorithms

Sammy Khalife, Hongyu Cheng, Amitabh Basu. Published in Mathematical Programming, vol. 206, pp. 333–356, 2024.

💬 Talks

Learning Cut Generating Functions for Integer Programming (Poster)

Sample Complexity of Algorithm Selection Using Neural Networks and Its Applications to Branch-and-Cut (Poster)

NeurIPS 2024. Vancouver, Canada, December 2024.
Sample Complexity of Learning Cut Generating Functions (Invited Talk)

2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, October 2024.
A Data-Driven Approach to Cut Generating Function Selection (Invited Talk)

25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP). Montreal, Canada, July 2024.

Teaching Assistant at Johns Hopkins University