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# Education


Candidate for Ph.D. in Computer Science, September 2018 - August 2023
University of Wisconsin, Madision, Madison, Wisconsin
📗 Major: Artificial Intelligence
📗 Minor: Educational Psychology
Advisor: Jerry Zhu
Committee: Qiaomin Xie, Yudong Chen, Josiah Hanna
Thesis: Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Ph.D. in Economics, September 2012 - August 2018
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
📗 Major: Microeconomic Theory
📗 Minor: Financial Economics
Advisors: Marcin Peski, Colin Stewart, Xianwen Shi
Thesis: Dynamic Mechanism Design without Transfers

Master's Degree in Economics, September 2011 - August 2012
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Master, Doctoral Stream, GPA 4.0/4.0

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, September 2007 - May 2011
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
📗 Major: Honors Mathematical Finance
📗 Major: Statistics
📗 Major: Actuarial Science
📗 Minor: Economics
Dean's Honors List with Distinction, GPA 91%

Secondary School Diploma, September 2004 - June 2007
A. Y. Jackson Secondary School, Toronto, Ontario

# Work Experience


Course Instructor, June 2023 - August 2023
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Campus Section 

Course Instructor, June 2022 - August 2022
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Campus Section 
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Epic Section

Course Instructor, June 2021 - August 2021
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Campus Section

Course Instructor, June 2020 - August 2020
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Campus Section 
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Epic Section 

Course Instructor, June 2019 - August 2019
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Campus Section
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540) - Epic Section

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2018 - present
📗 Algorithms (CS577), 2018 for Shuchi Chawla and Christos Tzamos
📗 Artificial Intelligence (CS540), 2019 for Charles Dyer
📗 Data Visualization (CS765), 2020 for Michael Gleicher
📗 Computer Graphics (CS559), 2019, 2020, 2021 for Michael Gleicher

Course Instructor, July 2016 - August 2016
📗 Microeconomic Theory (ECO206) - with Kripa Freitas

Course Instructor, July 2015 - August 2015
📗 Microeconomic Theory (ECO206) - with Kripa Freitas

Graduate Teaching Assistant, September 2011 - July 2017
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
📗 Advanced Microeconomics Theory (ECO326), 2014 - 2016 for Marcin Peski
📗 Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design (CSC304), 2016 for Allan Borodin
📗 Advanced Microeconomics Theory (ECO326), 2017 for Carolyn Pitchik
📗 Advanced Microeconomics Theory (ECO206), 2016 - 2017 for Carolyn Pitchik
📗 Mathematical Expression and Reasoning (CSC165), 2016 for Abdallah Farraj
📗 Microeconomic Theory II (PhD) (ECO2030), 2016 for Martin Osborne and Colin Stewart
📗 Microeconomic Theory I (PhD) (ECO2020), 2015 - 2016 for Marcin Peski and Ettore Damiano
📗 Microeconomic Theory II (PhD) (ECO2030), 2015 for Colin Stewart
📗 Energy (BIG101), 2014 - 2015 for Adonis Yatchew
📗 Economic Growth (ECO362), Spring 2014 for Chaoran Chen
📗 Microeconomic Theory (ECO200), Spring 2014 for Robert Barber
📗 Advanced Microeconomics Theory (ECO326), 2013 - 2014 for Marcin Peski
📗 Applied Game Theory (ECO316), Spring 2014 for Ettore Damiano
📗 Energy (BIG101), 2013 - 2014 for Adonis Yatchew
📗 Introduction to Economics (ECO100), Summer 2013 for Kieran Furlong
📗 Microeconomic Theory (Commerce) (ECO204), 2012 - 2013 for Ajaz Hussain
📗 Macroeconomic Theory (ECO208), Summer 2012 for Pedro Bento
📗 Introduction to Economics (ECO100), 2011 - 2012 for Kieran Furlong
📗 Teach weekly tutorials or seminars and hold weekly office hours
📗 Exam invigilation, grading, and grade recording for midterms and final exam

Graduate Research Assistant, August 2015 - September 2016
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
📗 Supervisor: Colin Stewart, Department of Economics

Graduate Research Assistant, May 2015 - September 2016
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
📗 Supervisor: Marcin Peski, Department of Economics

Graduate Research Assistant, May 2014 - August 2014
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
📗 Supervisor: Marcin Peski, Department of Economics
📗 Research Topic: Mechanism Design with Stopping Problems

Graduate Research Assistant, May 2013 - August 2013
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
📗 Supervisor: Adonis Yatchew, Department of Economics
📗 Research Topic: Big Energy Website Development 

Graduate Research Assistant, May 2012 - August 2013
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
📗 Supervisor: Martin Burda, Department of Economics
📗 Supervisor: Andrew Ching, Rotman School of Management
📗 Research Topic: Consumer Learning with Flexible Unobserved Heterogeneity

Summer Student Research Program, July 2011 - August 2011
Fields Institute, University of Toronto
📗 Supervisor: Libor Barto, Department of Algebra, Charles University in Prague
📗 Research Topic: Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Undergraduate Research Assistant, May 2010 - August 2010
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
📗 Supervisor: Francis Poulin, Department of Applied Mathematics
📗 Research Topic: Stochastic Differential Equations; Gillespie Simulation Algorithm

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, September 2008 - May 2011
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
📗 Tutorial Center tutor for Calculus 1 (MATH137), Fall 2010
📗 Residence tutor for Linear Algebra 1 (MATH136), Winter 2010
📗 Tutorial Centre tutor for Algebra 1 (MATH 135), Fall 2009
📗 Marker for Linear Algebra 2 (MATH235), Spring 2009
📗 Residence tutor for Linear Algebra 1 (MATH136), Winter 2009
📗 Tutorial Center tutor for Calculus 1 (MATH137), Fall 2008
📗 Tutorial Center tutor for Calculus 2 (MATH138), Winter 2008

Cash Room / Cash Control, May 2008 - August 2008
Wild Water Kingdom, Brampton, Ontario
📗 Process cash and credit / debit card payment from sales transactions
📗 Produce daily sales reports and coin orders

Volunteer Tutoring, April 2006 - June 2007
JVS, Toronto, Ontario
📗 Tutor several students in Grade 10 and 11 Mathematics courses
📗 Assist these students on homework, assignments and exam preparations

# Awards and Scholarships


📗 CS Department Awards - The Teaching Award, 2020
📗 Award for Excellence in Teaching by Teaching Assistants, 2014, 2016
📗 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2011 - 2012
📗 Dean's Honors List in 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B terms, Fall 2007 - May 2011
📗 NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards, Spring 2010
📗 Thomas R. Suite Memorial Scholarship, 2009 - 2010
📗 UW President's Scholarship, 2007 - 2008
📗 Rene Descartes Scholarship, 2007 - 2008

# Other Information


📗 Citizenship: Canadian, born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
📗 Languages: Chinese (Mandarin) (native); English (fluent)
📗 Programing Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Fortran, and C++
📗 Mathematical software: Maple and MATLAB
📗 Statistical software: R and STATA





Last Updated: March 17, 2023 at 10:26 PM