Biography

Educations

  • Ph.D. student, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

    • 08/2019-Now;

    • Advisor: Prof. Cong Shen;

    • Major: Electrical Engineering.

  • B.E., University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    • 08/2015-06/2019;

    • Advisor: Prof. Weiping Li;

    • Major: Electronic Information Engineering;

    • School of the Gifted Young.

Industrial Experiences

  • Research Intern, AI Group–Navigation Team, Bloomberg L.P., London, UK

    • 06/2023-09/2023;

    • Mentors: Hang Ren, Diego Ceccarelli, Edgar Meij;

    • Developed an empirical Bayes approach for learning to rank with clicks under unknown position bias with state-of-the-art performance achieved.

  • Research Intern, AI Group–Research Understanding Team, Bloomberg L.P., New York City, NY

    • 06/2022-09/2022;

    • Mentors: Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Shubham Chopra;

    • Worked on incorporating estimation uncertainty to improve offline learning to rank designs under different click models.

Academic Experiences

  • Visiting Student, University of Miami, Miami, FL

    • 09/2018–11/2018;

    • Advisor: Prof. Jie Xu;

    • Worked on partitioning DNN adaptively between edge server and local device to accelerate task inferences with privacy guarantees.

  • Visiting Student, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    • 06/2018–08/2018;

    • Advisor: Prof. Minghua Chen;

    • Designed ride-sharing routing algorithms using demand predictors to optimize the revenue.

Honors and Rewards