Yinuo Ren
PhD Candidate
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Stanford University
Email: yinuoren at stanford dot edu
I am a PhD candidate in Applied and Computational Mathematics at
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering,
Stanford University. I am privileged to be supervised by
Prof. Lexing Ying
(Applied Mathematics) and
Prof. Grant M. Rotskoff
(Computational Chemistry).
My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning, stochastic
analysis, and numerical analysis. I am now working on the mathematical foundations
and algorithmic design of flow and diffusion-based models, e.g.,
inference-time scaling of diffusion models (ICLR 2026),
fast solver for discrete diffusion (NeurIPS 2025), and
parallel diffusion sampling (NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight).
During Winter 2026, I am a Student Researcher at
ByteDance Seed. During Summer 2025, I was a Visiting Researcher at
Flatiron Institute,
Simons Foundation, hosted by
Dr. Jiequn Han, working on
the inference-time scaling of diffusion models. During Summer 2023 and 2024, I was an Applied Scientist Intern at
Amazon Science, working on
multi-objective LLM fine-tuning, and
multi-objective optimization. I obtained my BS in Computational Mathematics from
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Peking University, supervised by
Prof. Ruo Li.