Short bio
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. Prior to joining Manchester, I was a Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge from 2020 to 2022, and concurrently a Research Associate at the University of Oxford during the same period. I received my Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2020, and my bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2015.
My research centers on artificial intelligence, particularly deep reinforcement learning and generative models. I work on large-scale reinforcement learning, policy gradient methods, generative modeling, and optimization, with applications in video games, robotics, and multi-agent systems.
Recent updates:
- 2026-01-22: One paper accepted to AISTATS 2026 (Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics)
- 2026-01-13: One paper accepted to TMLR (Transactions on Machine Learning Research)
- 2025-10-06: Awarded Open Source AI Fellowship by Alan Turing Institute
- 2025-09-25: One paper accepted to NeurIPS AI4Science workshop
- 2025-08-26: One paper accepted to ICDM (International Conference on Data Mining)
- 2025-07-18: Received UKRI AI Research Resource (AIRR) Early Access Project award
- 2025-07-10: Awarded Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA)
- 2025-06-16: One paper accepted to TMLR (Transactions on Machine Learning Research)
- 2025-02-24: Funding award (PI): EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA) Studentship
- 2025-01-28: One paper accepted to ICRA 2025
- 2024-10-01: Funding award (PI): TICM Collaborative R&D programme: Reinforcement Learning for Fully Automated System Calibration
- 2024-07-17: Funding award (Co-I) of Generative Modeling for Engineering Design, sponsored by Cummins Turbo Technologies Ltd, collaboratively with Dr Wei Pan and Dr Alex Skillen
- 2024-06-18: Received School of Engineering Pump Priming, Theme Development and Dissemination fund
- 2024-05-17: One paper accepted to KDD 2024
- 2024-02-01: Funding award (Co-I) of AI Hub in Generative Models, collaboratively with Professor David Barber
- 2023-12-14: One paper accepted to IUI 2024
- 2023-10-31: Funding award (Co-I) of UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems, collaboratively with Dr Mauricio Alvarez
- 2023-10-03: Quality Champion Award for the ECAI Reviewer
- 2023-09-22: One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2023
- 2023-06-21: One proposal accepted to AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium Series
- 2023-06-01: Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
- 2023-05-16: One paper accepted to CoLLAs 2023
- 2023-01-20: One paper accepted to ICLR 2023
- 2023-01-03: One paper accepted to AAMAS 2023
- 2022-12-07: Joined University of Manchester as a lecturer