I am an assistant professor at the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University. Previously I was a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2020-2021. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland in 2020, and I received Bachelor of Engineering from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University and Bachelor of Science from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, both in 2015.
My research investigates interdisciplinary subjects among quantum computing, machine learning, and theoretical computer science, with the focus on designing quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization. I am also interested in quantum simulation, quantum query complexity, and quantum walks.
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News
§ 02/2022, I will serve as a reviewer for the newly founded journal Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). Please consider submitting your work there!
§ 12/2021, my paper "Hamiltonian simulation with random inputs" was accepted as a contributed talk at the 25th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2022).
§ 12/2021, I will serve as a PC member of TQC 2022. Please consider submitting your work there!
§ 12/2021, I will serve as a PC member of QCTIP 2022. Please consider submitting your work there!
§ 10/2021, I gave a talk about "Quantum algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization" at the INFORMS 2021 Annual Meeting. See my presentation here.
§ 09/2021, our paper "Escape saddle points by a simple gradient-descent based algorithm" was accepted by the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021). Congratulations to Chenyi Zhang for having the first accepted paper at NeurIPS!
§ 08/2021, our paper "Quantum algorithms for escaping from saddle points" was accepted by Quantum. Congratulations to both Chenyi Zhang and Jiaqi Leng for having the first publication in quantum computing research!
§ 08/2021, I served as a PC member of AQIS 2021.
§ 07/2021, I joined the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University as an assistant professor. PhD and postdoc applications are welcomed!
Awards
§ 2020, Top Reviewer Award, 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020)
§ 2018-2021, QISE-NET Triplet Award (the only awardee in theoretical computer science in Cohort One)
§ 2018-2020, IBM PhD Fellowship (the only awardee in quantum computing in 2018)
§ 2015-2017, Lanczos Fellowship and Dean's Fellowship, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
§ 2015, IIIS Excellent Gradates, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University (only 6 awardees in total)
§ 2014, Yao Award (Recognition Prize), Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University (highest award to undergraduate CS majors; only 10 awardees in total)
§ 2011, Gold Medal, Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (Top 50 around China)
