I am currently a visiting scholar at Wharton Department of Statistics and Data Science, under the joint supervision of Professor Guang Cheng from University of California, Los Angeles and Professor Weijie Su from the University of Pennsylvania.
Before that, I obtained my Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Professor Xin Guo from the University of Queensland and Professor Xiaojun Chen from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
My research interests primarily lie in machine learning, with a focus on foundation models, deep learning, federated learning, learning theory, kernel-based learning, and parametric learning. Additionally, I am interested in privacy-preserving data science, specifically differential privacy and its applications to machine learning. Finally, I am also interested in synthetic data generation, particularly in the context of privacy-preserving generative data.
Office: 300B Academic Research Building
265 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email: chendi@wharton.upenn.edu
Ph.D., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2018-2021
M.Phil., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2016-2018
B.S., Beijing Normal University, 2012-2016