Biography

I’m a PhD student/univ. predoctoral assistant at the University of Vienna since 2026, working under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Tierney.

I have an MScR from the University of Bristol, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Weiru Liu and Dr Kevin McAreavey on explainable AI for reinforcement learning (RL)/automated planning.

Over time, I explored topics in imitation learning, RL and high-dim statistics, e.g., with Dr Yangchun Zhang at Shanghai University.

My research at Vienna focuses on algorithm configuration & neural heuristics for combinatorial optimisation.

Research Interests

• Reinforcement learning
• Explainable AI

Curriculum Vitae

• MScR, School of Computer Science [Thesis]
  University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  2022 - 2024
• BSc, Department of Mathematics
  Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
  2018 - 2022

Contact

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A quote that I like:

The equation of the heaven and earth
remains unsolved.
(Yehuda Amichai)

You may find this on An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, by Y. Pinchover and J. Rubinstein (2005).