I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics at Xiamen University. From 2022 to 2024, I was a visiting scholar in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, jointly supervised by Professor Guang Cheng at UCLA, and Professor Weijie Su at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2021, I obtained my Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervision of Professor Xin Guo at the University of Queensland and Professor Xiaojun Chen at 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.
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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