I am currently a staff researcher/engineer and team lead at Huawei Canada Research Center in Edmonton. I obtained my PhD degree from the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, advised by Prof. Martin Mueller and Prof. Ryan Hayward.

Research

I am interested in various aspects of artificial intelligence. My current research focus is mainly application-driven. Our current work are centered at using AI/ML algorithms for hardware/software optimization. See Projects for more about the projects I have worked on and am currently working on.

Academic Services

• PC member AAAI-RLG workshop 2020, 2021, 2022
• PC member ACG 2019, 2021
• PC member AAAI 2022
• PC member AAAI 2021
• PC member IJCAI 2021
• PC member AAAI 2020
• PC member IJCAI 2019.
• Reviewer of European Journal of Operational Research
  • I was recongnized as an outstanding reviewer, certificate.
• PC member IJCAI-ECAI 2018.
  • I was recongnized as a distinguished reviewer.

Programming Skills

Programming Language: C++, Java, C, Python, Linux Shell, TensorFlow, PyTorch.

Competition Awards

• 2017 Computer Olympiad, Hex Tournament Champion.
• 2018 Computer Olympiad, Hex Tournament Champion.
• 2018 Pommerman Competition at NeurIPS (NIPS), top 2 learning agents, worked done as a part-time intern at Borealis AI at Edmonton, collaborated with Pablo Hernandez-Leal, Bilal Kartal, Matthew E. Taylor.