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Education

  • 2024
    Ph.D.
    Northwestern University, United States
    • Majored in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
    • Dissertation title "Multi-agent and Multi-objective Multi-armed Bandit"
    • Advised by Professor Diego Klabjan
  • 2018
    B.S.
    University of Science and Technology of China, China
    • Majored in Statistics
  • 2017
    Summer exchange program
    Yale University, United States
    • BioStatistics

Experience

  • Summer 2023
    Machine Learning Engineer Intern
    Linkedin
    • Develop large language models (LLMs) for keywords extraction based on user queries in search AI team
    • Prompt engineering and data mining
    • Develop a workflow and pipeline to ultimately improve users' search experience
  • 2021
    Algorithm Engineer
    Didi Chuxing, Beijing, China
    • Developed two-staged algorithms that achieve over 25% improvement on baselines for pricing of multiple ride options at Didi;
    • Developed the very first algorithm with causal forest for model-based route-based pricing of Didi Discount Express and iterated multiple versions with superior performance
    • Built data pipelines with Spark for processing billions of data and advancing feature engineering to support large-scale model training and distributional computations
    • Built a model pipeline for online recommender systems with causal neural networks
    • Did research on treatment effect estimation including proving the convergence of GCF for non-parametric DRF, giving multiple talks and finishing a paper accepted for oral presentation at KDD 2022

Awards and Honors

  • 2026
    • Silver Reviewer, ICML
  • 2025
    • Meritorious Reviewer, INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • 2024
    • Top Reviewer, NeurIPS
    • Honorable Mention, RLC Workshop
  • 2023
    • Spotlight Presentation, NeurIPS (top 3%)
  • 2018 - 2019
    • Walter P. Murphy Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University
  • 2018
    • Runner-up, Guo Moruo Scholarship, USTC (the highest honor)
  • 2017
    • National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education (top 1%)
  • 2016
    • National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education (top 1%)
    • Mobile Commerce Competition, USTC (top 1)
  • 2015
    • Scholarship of Minglong Huang, USTC (top 10%)
  • 2013
    • National High School Mathematics Olympiad, Chinese Mathematics Society
    • Second Prize in Province

Skills

  • Programming Languages
    • Python, R, SQL, Scala, SAS, LaTeX, C
  • System and framework
    • Linux, Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes, PyTorch, GCC