Biography

Short Biography

     I am an Assistant Professor in Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I was a Research Assistant Professor in the same department. Before that. I was a research fellow in NExT++ Center , School of Computing, National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Chua Tat-Seng. I was a co-founder and the CEO of YIDU AI Private Limited (an AI start-up based in Singapore) from 2018 to 2020. 

    I obtained my Ph.D in Mathematics, from Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore in 2020. My Ph.D supervisor is  Prof. Toh Kim-Chuan . I fortunately worked with  Prof. Sun Defeng from 2015 to 2018. Prior to NUS, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Computational Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2015. 

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  Mar. 2023 - Now

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  Apr. 2021 - Feb. 2023

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  Oct. 2020 - Mar. 2021

• Research Fellow, NExT++ Center, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
  Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2020
  (Led a team to develop AI for Wellness applications.)

Academic Services

• Journal Reviewer:
  Mathematical Programming
  SIAM  Journal  on  Optimization
  Journal of Machine Learning Research
  Operations Research
  Mathematical Programming Computation
  IEEE Transactions  on  Neural  Networks  and  Learning  Systems
  Computational Optimization and  Applications
  Science China Mathematics
  Bioinformatics
  Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
  Journal of Computational Physics
  Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
  
  

• Conference Reviewer/PC Member：
  ICML 2022, 2023.
  2024: ICLR, ICML, IJCAI.

Other Experiences

• External consultant for several companies and government agencies in Singapore.
  2018 - 2020

• Secretary General, USTC Alumni Association Singapore.
  2019 -  2020

• Co-founder & CEO, YiDu AI Pte. Ltd.
  2018 - 2020

• Vice President, NUS Student Chapter of SIAM.
  2018 -  2019