CV

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Research Interests

  • Online learning, uncertainty quantification, and optimization

Education

  • 2024 – 2028
    PhD in Applied Mathematics
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
    • Advisor: Prof. Francesco Orabona
    • Expected graduation: Oct 2028
  • 2022 – 2024
    MS in Applied Mathematics
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2016 – 2020
    BS in Geophysics
    Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China
    • Thesis: Imaging the Pacific and Philippine Sea Plates: A Finite Frequency Teleseismic Wave Tomography Model of Japan
    • Advisor: Prof. Wei Zhang
    • GPA: 3.76/4.00

Publications

  • Three conference papers (NeurIPS 2026, ICML 2026 Spotlight, AISTATS 2026) and three preprints. See the publications page.

Research Experience

  • May – Aug 2026
    Research Intern
    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
    • Host: Prof. Junchi Yang
    • Research: Efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization
  • Mar – Aug 2021
    Research Intern
    School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
    • Host: Prof. Xiaodong Song
    • Research: Geophysical inverse problems
  • Sep – Dec 2019
    Research Intern
    Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Host: Prof. Richard Allen
    • Research: Seismic traveltime tomography and large-scale sparse inversion

Teaching Experience

  • Fall 2025
    Teaching Assistant, CS 333: Online Learning
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • Spring 2024
    Teaching Assistant, AMCS 252: Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • 2017 – 2018
    Teaching Assistant, MA 103b: Linear Algebra I
    Southern University of Science and Technology

Invited Talks

  • 2024
    Explicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Quadratic Optimization with Optimal Rates
    The 14th American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Conference

Professional Service

  • 2026
    Reviewer
    AISTATS 2027, NeurIPS 2026
  • 2019 – 2020
    Organizing Committee
    1st Asia-Pacific Geophysics Student Conference, Hefei, China
  • 2019 – 2020
    President-elect
    SEG Student Chapter, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China
    • Co-founded the certified SEG Student Chapter at SUSTech with Prof. Wei Zhang.
    • Initiated the officer elections and established the chapter's first group of officers.
    • Led all regular meetings and managed chapter operations.
    • Coordinated seminars, mostly given by internal faculty, offering career advice on working in geophysics in both academia and industry.

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • SUSTech Department Head Scholarship for Overseas Studies
    • SEG/Schlumberger Scholarship, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Skills

Programming Python and MATLAB (proficient); Fortran, Unix, and Wolfram Mathematica (experienced)
ML Frameworks JAX, PyTorch
Hobbies Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, drumming, and cooking