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Education
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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
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2018 B.S.
University of Science and Technology of China, China - Majored in Statistics
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2017 Summer exchange program
Yale University, United States - BioStatistics
Experience
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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
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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
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2026 - Silver Reviewer, ICML
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2025 - Meritorious Reviewer, INFORMS Journal on Computing
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2024 - Top Reviewer, NeurIPS
- Honorable Mention, RLC Workshop
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2023 - Spotlight Presentation, NeurIPS (top 3%)
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2018 - 2019 - Walter P. Murphy Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University
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2018 - Runner-up, Guo Moruo Scholarship, USTC (the highest honor)
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2017 - National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education (top 1%)
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2016 - National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education (top 1%)
- Mobile Commerce Competition, USTC (top 1)
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2015 - Scholarship of Minglong Huang, USTC (top 10%)
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2013 - National High School Mathematics Olympiad, Chinese Mathematics Society
- Second Prize in Province
Skills
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Programming Languages
- Python, R, SQL, Scala, SAS, LaTeX, C
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System and framework
- Linux, Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes, PyTorch, GCC