CV
Employment
- Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 2023-present
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2018-2023
- B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Fudan University, 2013-2018
Talks
- Random Cuts are Optimal for Explainable k-Medians, EnCORE Old Questions and New Directions in Theory of Clustering workshop, 2024
- Explainable k-means. Don’t be greedy, plant bigger trees!, SoCG Workshop on Recent Developments in Geometric Clustering, June 13, 2023
- Explainable k-means. Don’t be greedy, plant bigger trees!, IDEAL Workshop on Machine Learning, Interpretability, and Logic, Apr 14, 2023
- Higher-Order Cheeger Inequality for Partitioning with Buffers, Theory Seminar at University of Michigan, Jan 6, 2023
- Higher-Order Cheeger Inequality for Partitioning with Buffers, Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop, Jan 5, 2023
- Explainable k-means: Don’t be greedy, Plant bigger trees!, University of Science and Technology of China, May 26, 2022
- Explainable k-means: Don’t be greedy, Plant bigger trees!, IDEAL Workshop on Clustering at Northwestern University, Apr 23, 2022
- Near-optimal Algorithms for Explainable k-medians and k-means, Fudan University, Dec 18, 2021
- Reducing the Spread of Infection in SIR Epidemic Models, Northwestern University, Dec 2, 2020
- Improved Guarantees for k-means++ and k-means++ Parallel, Yahoo Research, Nov 5, 2020
Academic Services
- Reviewer: ICML 2021/2022/2023/2024, NeurIPS 2021/2022/2023/2024, AAAI 2022/2023/2024, ICLR 2022/2023, SODA 2023/2024, FOCS 2023, ICALP 2023, JAIR, TCS
- Volunteer: STOC 2020, FOCS 2021
Awards
- Outstanding Reviewer, ICLR 2024
- Terminal Year Fellowship, Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering, 2022
- PhD Student Research Award, Northwestern University, Computer Science Department, 2022
Intern
- Yahoo Research, 2022 Summer
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant:
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Northwestern University, 2019/2020/2021 Winter & 2021 Fall
