Zai Shi

Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University of Technology

Joined

May 2021

Names

Zai Shi (Preferred)

Emails

****@osu.edu (Confirmed)

****@alibaba-inc.com (Confirmed)

****@zjut.edu.cn (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Zhejiang University of Technology (zjut.edu.cn)

2025 – Present

Researcher

Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

Ohio State University (osu.edu)

2016 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Atilla Eryilmaz

2016 – 2021

Expertise

Optimization

2016 – Present

Publications

Autoscaling via Online Optimization With Switching Cost Constraints
Zai Shi, Jian Tan
- IEEE Trans. Netw. 2025
- Readers: Everyone
A Bayesian Approach for Bandit Online Optimization with Switching Cost
Zai Shi, Jian Tan, Feifei Li
- Published: 08 May 2023, Last Modified: 26 Jun 2023
- UAI 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Bayesian approach for bandit online optimization with switching cost
Zai Shi, Jian Tan, Feifei Li
- UAI 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Bayesian Framework for Online Nonconvex Optimization over Distributed Processing Networks
Zai Shi, Yilin Zheng, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
- INFOCOM 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Bayesian Approach for Stochastic Continuum-armed Bandit with Long-term Constraints
Zai Shi, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- AISTATS 2022
- Readers: Everyone
A Flexible Distributed Stochastic Optimization Framework for Concurrent Tasks in Processing Networks
Zai Shi, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
- IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Communication-efficient Subspace Methods for High-dimensional Federated Learning
Zai Shi, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
- MSN 2021
- Readers: Everyone
A Zeroth-Order ADMM Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization over Distributed Processing Networks
Zai Shi, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- INFOCOM 2020
- Readers: Everyone
A Flexible Distributed Optimization Framework for Service of Concurrent Tasks in Processing Networks
Zai Shi, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2019, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- INFOCOM 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Cubic Regularized ADMM with Convergence to a Local Minimum in Non-convex Optimization
Zai Shi, Atilla Eryilmaz
- Published: 01 Jan 2019, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
- Allerton 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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