Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, Jul 2025 - present
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University, Oct 2023 - Jun 2025
  • Research Intern, Walmart Labs, Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
  • Research Intern, General Motors China Science Lab, Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Univerisity of Virginia, Aug 2018 - Aug 2023
  • M.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering & B.A. in English, Harbin Institute of Technology, Aug 2012 - Jul 2016
  • Exchange Student, Monash University, Feb 2015 - Jun 2015

Professional Services

  • Conference Reviewer
    • ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, IJCAI
    • WSDM, KDD
    • GAMESEC
  • Journal Reviewer
    • Nature Human Behaviour
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
    • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • Volunteer
    • KDD’20
  • Recognition
    • ICLR Notable Reviewer (62 out of 5k+), 2023
    • AISTATS Top Reviewer (Top 10%), 2023

Honors & Fellowships

  • Tony Massini Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Science, Yale University, 2024
  • Carlos and Esther Farrar Fellowship, Univerisity of Virginia, 2021
  • Graduation with Distinction, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2016
  • Outstanding Undergrad Thesis Award, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2016
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2015
  • CSC Scholarship for Undergrad Exchange Program, China Scholarship Council, 2015