Experience

Industry Experience

TikTok

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  • TikTok Live Data BP Team, San Jose, CA, USA
    Software Engineering Intern. Sept. 2025 – Dec. 2025

  • Worked on LLM-based data agents for business intelligence and large-scale analytics.

  • Built scalable analytics workflows and decision-support tools.

JD.com

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  • Advertising Mechanism Team, Beijing, China
    Machine Learning Research Intern. Jun. 2025 – Sept. 2025

  • Conducted research on auto-bidding algorithms under ROS constraints.

  • Developed uncertainty-aware bidding methods for online advertising systems.

  • Resulted in a WWW 2026 oral paper.

Academic Experience

Research Assistant at UCLA

  • Graduate Student Researcher, supervised by Prof. Yuhua Zhu, Aug. 2024 – Present

Research topics include reinforcement learning and variance reduction methods.

Teaching Assistant at UCLA

  • STATS 10: Introduction to Statistical Reasoning (2024 Spring, 2024 Summer)

  • STATS 100A: Introduction to Probability (2025 & 2026 Spring)

  • STATS 102A: Introduction to Statistical Programming with R (2026 Winter)

  • STATS 13: Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences (2024 Winter, 2025 Winter)

  • STATS 112: Statistics: Window to Understanding Diversity (2024 Fall)

Professional Services

Reviewer

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2024

  • AAAI 2026

  • NeurIPS 2026

Invited Talks

  • SICSS-UCLA, Introduction to Optimal Auction Design, 2023