Bio

Education

  • PhD, Computational Sceince and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (2016 - Present)

  • BS, Theoretic and Applied Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, China (2012 - 2016)

  • Shandong Experimental High School, Jinan, China (2010-2012)

Experience

  • Feb. 2021 - May. 2021: Applied Scientist Internship at Amazon, Palo Alto (Virtual) mentored by Dr. Li Zheng and Dr. Danqing Zhang.

  • Jun. 2020 - Aug. 2020: Quantitative Research Internship at Citadel, Seattle (Virtual) mentored by Dr. Li Deng and Dr. Pusheng Zhang.

Performed fraud detection using textual data from financial documents. Improved AUC significantly over the traditional method.

  • Sep. 2019 - Apr. 2020: Research Internship at Google, Sunnyvale mentored by Dr. Wei Wei.

Proposed a differentiable and efficient top-k operator, demonstrating significant improvements in image recognition and machine translation.

  • May 2018 - Aug. 2018: Research Internship at Microsoft, Redmond mentored by Dr. Yi Mao and Dr. Weizhu Chen.

Proposed a conditional self-attention network for query-based summarization tasks. Achieved improvements in ROUGE score by at least 4.

  • Reviewer of ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, JMLR

  • Teaching Assistantship of CS 7641 Machine Learning & CSE 6740 Computational Data Analysis

  • Research Assistantship (2016 - Present)

Awards

  • 2016-2020: President’s Fellow of Georgia Tech

  • 2015: Guo Moruo’s Scholarship (the highest honor of USTC)

  • 2015: Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling

  • 2014: National Scholarship

  • 2013: Gold Award, Outstanding Students Scholarships of USTC

  • 2013: Third Prize, China Undergraduate Physicists’ Tournament