CS PhD Candidate at UCLA / Large Language Models / LLM Agents / AI for Scientific Discovery / Quantitative Trading

Curriculum Vitae

Education

20222026 (expected)

Ph.D. Candidate

University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation: Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Artificial Intelligence: From Representation Learning to Autonomous Agents
Committee: Wei Wang (Co-Chair), Yizhou Sun (Co-Chair), Abigail G. Doyle, Aditya Grover, and Connor W. Coley

20192022

Master of Engineering

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Thesis: Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Graph-Structured Data
Advisors: Tieniu Tan and Shu Wu

Experience

March 2025present

Research Analyst Intern

Point72 Asset Management, L.P.

June 2024January 2025

Research Scientist Intern

Meta Platforms, Inc.

September 2022present

Research Assistant

NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis (C-CAS)

Selected Honors and Awards

Amazon Fellowship2025
D. E. Shaw Research Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship2025
NeurIPS Scholar Award2023
Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, University of California, Los Angeles2022
National Scholarship, The Ministry of Education of China2021, 2017
NeurIPS Outstanding Reviewer Award2021
SIGMM Student Travel Grant Award2021
SIGIR Student Travel Award2021
ICML Participation Grant2021
Outstanding Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences2021, 2020
AAAI Student Scholarship2019

Academic Services

Logistics Chair

LoG 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022

Program Committee

COLM 2026
NeurIPS 2025, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
ICML 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
ICLR 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
KDD 2024, 2023, 2022
WWW 2024, 2021
AAAI 2022, 2021

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
ACM Transactions on Information Systems