Curriculum vitae

Education

• Ph.D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, Aug 2019 - May 2024 (expected)
  • Major: Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Research Area: Machine Learning
  • Advisors: Prof. Han Zhao and Prof. Bo Li
  • GPA: 4.00/4.00
• B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, Aug 2015 - May 2019
  • Majors: (1) Statistics & Computer Science, (2) Physics
  • GPA: 3.89/4.00

Professional Experience

• May 2022 - Aug 2022: Amazon Braket
  • Applied Scientist Intern, supervised by Dr. Cedric Lin and Dr. Péter Kómár
  • Conducting research on machine learning for quantum computing
• May 2021 - Aug 2021: Waymo LLC (formerly the Google self-driving car project)
  • Research Intern, supervised by Dr. Zhao Chen
  • Conducted research on machine learning for autonomous driving systems

Awards & Honors

• NeurIPS Top Reviewer, 2022
• Unitary Fund Microgrant Award (for Quantum Technology Projects), 2022
• Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3), 2022-2023
• NeurIPS Travel Award, 2019

Services

• Reviewer of Conferences: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, AISTATS, CVPR, ICCV