I will join Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), the Department of Statistics as an assistant professor starting from fall 2025. Currently, I am a postdoc researcher working with Prof. Daniel Kuhn from EPFL and Prof. Andreas Krause from ETH Zurich. Prior to that, I got my PhD in Operations Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Xin Chen and Prof. Niao He.  I obtained Bachelor in Mathematics from Nankai University. 

My research interest lies in the intersection of optimization, machine learning, and statistics. I study problems arising from language model alignments, reinforcement learning, operations research, and causal inference, aiming to build new models and develop simple-to-implement algorithms with provable guarantees. See Research for more details.  

Feel free send me an email if you find anything interesting and download my slides and posters (including my job talk). I am a skier, swimmer, hiker, and I play tennis.

Open Positions

I am looking for highly motivated PhD students and research interns with backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, operations research, computer science, or other related fields. 

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