Biography

Employment

• Founder’s Postdoc Fellow, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (2026 Jul - Present)

• Novikov Postdoc Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park (2025 Sep - 2026 Jun)

Education

• PhD, Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong (2021 Sep - 2025 Aug; Advisor: Prof. Michael K. Ng)

• BSc, School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University (2017 Sep - 2021 Jun)

Research Visits

• Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego (2026 Summer; Host: Prof. Arya Mazumdar)

• Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine (2025 Feb - 2025 Apr; Host: Prof. Roman Vershynin)

• Department of Statistics, Columbia University (2024 Jan - 2024 Jul; Host: Prof. Ming Yuan)

• Dept. of Computer Science, National Univ. of Singapore (2023 Jun - 2023 Aug; Host: Prof. Jonathan Scarlett)

Invited Talks

• Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2027, Chicago, IL, U.S., Jan 2027

• SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS26), Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., Nov 2026

• SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS26), Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., Nov 2026

• CUNY GC Harmonic Analysis and PDE, New York, U.S., Sep 2026

• SIAM Annual Meeting (AN26), Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 2026

• EnCORE Seminar, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego, May 2026

• Research Colloquium, Dept. of Math, Hong Kong Baptist University, Mar 2026

• Statistics Seminar, Dept. of Math, University of Maryland, College Park, Mar 2026

• AMS Postdoc Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Mar 2026

• Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2026, Washington, D.C., Jan 2026

• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2025, University of Michigan, Jun 2025

• CCoM–MINDS Seminar, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego, Apr 2025

• Combinatorics and Probability Seminar, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine, Mar 2025

• ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) 2025, New Orleans, Jan 2025

Teaching

Instructor @Columbia

• TBA (2027 Spring)

Instructor @UMD

• MATH141H - Calculus II (2026 Spring, 2 Sections)

Teaching Assistant @HKU

• MATH1009 - Basic Mathematics for Business and Economics (2022 Fall, 2023 Fall)

• MATH2014 - Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra (2022 Spring, 2023 Spring, 2024 Spring)

• MATH3904 - Introduction to Optimization (2024 Fall)

Reviewer

AoS, IEEE TIT, ACHA, Information and Inference, IEEE TSP, Journal of Scientific Computing, NeurIPS (2025, 2026), ISIT (2025)