CV

Education

• Ph.D. Student, Princeton University, 2025 (Expected)
  • Computer Science Department
• B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2020
  • Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
  • GPA: 3.86, Rank: 5/46

Experiences

• Undergraduate Research Assistant Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019
  • Tsinghua University
  • Supervisor: Professor Yang Yuan
• Research Intern Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019
  • Microsoft Research Asia
  • Supervisor: Professor Wei Chen
• Research Intern Feb. 2019 - July 2019
  • Duke University
  • Supervisor: Professor Rong Ge
• Research Intern July 2018 - Nov. 2018
  • Microsoft Research Asia
  • Supervisor: Professor Wei Chen
• Undergraduate Research Assistant May 2018 - Jan. 2019
  • Tsinghua University
  • Supervisor: Professor Jian Li

Awards

• Yao Award (Bronze Medal) Sept. 2019

Publications

Combinatorial Semi-Bandit in the Non-Stationary Environment

Wei Chen, Liwei Wang, Haoyu Zhao, Kai Zheng (alpha-beta)


The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ( UAI 2021 )

Combinatorial Pure Exploration of Dueling Bandit

Wei Chen, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao (alpha-beta)


International Conference on Machine Learning ( ICML 2020 )

Online Second Price Auction with Semi-bandit Feedback Under the Non-Stationary Setting

Haoyu Zhao, Wei Chen


AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI 2020 )

Gradient Method for Continuous Influence Maximization with Budget-Saving Considerations

Wei Chen, Weizhong Zhang, Haoyu Zhao (alpha-beta)


AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI 2020 )

Stochastic One-Sided Full-Information Bandit

Haoyu Zhao, Wei Chen


The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases ( ECML/PKDD 2019 )

An FPTAS for Stochastic Unbounded Min-Knapsack Problem

Zhihao Jiang, Haoyu Zhao (alpha-beta)


International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop ( FAW 2019 )

Talks

Presentation at FLOW: Federated Learning One World Seminar

August 11, 2021

Oral presentation at AAAI 2020

February 11, 2020

Conference proceedings talk at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), New York, United States

Oral presentation at ECML/PKDD 2019

September 19, 2019

Conference proceedings talk at The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2019), Wurzburg, Germany

Contests

• Gold Medal(11th place) of Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) Dec. 2015
• Second Prize in Chinese Physics Tournament Oct. 2015
• "The Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament" (HMMT 2015) Feb. 2015
  • The 22nd place (Geometry, Individual Round)
  • the 50th place (Overall, Individual Round)
  • the 3rd place (Team Round)
• Silver Medal of Chinese Mathematical Olympiad Dec. 2014

Scholarships and Certificates

• Baidu Scholarship for Research and Innovation Oct. 2019
• Scholarship for Senior Sept. 2019
• Xuetang Scholarship Sept. 2019
• Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation Sept. 2018
• Scholarship for Junior Sept. 2018
• Xuetang Scholarship Sept. 2018
• ZhengGeru Scholarship Sept. 2017
• Scholarship for Sophomore Sept. 2017
• Xuetang Scholarship Sept. 2017
• Scholarship for Freshman Sept. 2016
• Xuetang Scholarship Sept. 2016

Languages

• Chinese
  • Native
• English
  • Toefl
    • 107, 29 (Reading) + 27 (Listening) + 24 (Speaking) + 27 (Writing).
  • GRE
    • 326, 157 (Verbal) + 169 (Quantitative) + 4.0 (Writing).