Carnegie Mellon University, 2021-2026 (expected), Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Neural Computation
Carnegie Mellon University, 2021-2024, M.S. in Machine Learning (part of Ph.D. training)
Peking University, 2016-2021, B.S. in Integrated Science (with a focus on math and physics)
Honors and Awards
Student Research Award, Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2025
Aline D. Gross Scholarship, National Institute of Health, 2023
Fellowship from Richard King Mellon Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation, 2021
Outstanding Graduate of Yuanpei College, Peking University, 2021
Gold Medal, iGEM (international Genetics Engineered Machine competition), iGEM, 2018
Best Foundational Advance Nominate, iGEM, 2018
Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM/ICM), COMAP, 2018
Award for Social Work, Peking University, 2017
Gold Medal, Chinese Girls' Mathematics Olympiad, Chinese Mathematical Society, 2015
Silver Medal, Chinese Mathematics Olympiad, Chinese Mathematical Society, 2015
Gold Medal, Chinese Western Mathematical Invitational, Chinese Mathematical Society, 2015
Gold Medal, Chinese Western Mathematical Invitational, Chinese Mathematical Society, 2014
Gold Medal, Chinese Northern Mathematics Olympiad, Chinese Mathematical Society Olympiad Committee, 2014
Teaching
Guest lecturer, Statistical Models of the Brain (36-759, Spring 2025, Carnegie Mellon University)
Graduate-level course introducing key statistical and computational methods in neuroscience through classic examples.
[Syllabus]
Teaching assistant, Advanced Introduction to Machine Learning (10-715, Fall 2023, Carnegie Mellon University)
Graduate-level course giving students a thorough grounding in the algorithms, mathematics, theories, and insights
needed to do in-depth research and applications in machine learning.
[Website]
Teaching assistant, Neural Computation (15-386/686, Spring 2023, Carnegie Mellon University)
This course, open to both undergraduates and graduates, explores brain computation and learning
through models bridging neuroscience and AI, with hands-on Matlab-based analysis.
[Website]
Teaching assistant, Introductory Seminar on Integrated Science (Fall 2020, Peking University)
Introductory seminar for freshmen majoring or interested in Integrated Science.
Selected Summer schools
Methods in Computational Neuroscience, 2023, Marine Biology Laboratory, MA, USA. project: Temporal Interplay of Learning and Recurrent Neural Dynamics in Sequential Activity
Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School, 2021, CSHL Asia, China. project: Threshold Dependence in Voltage-dependent Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity
Computational and Applied Mathematics Summer School, 2020, Peking University, China. project: The Energy Landscape Associated with an Excitable Gene Regulatory Network