Experience

  1. Director

    Cognizant AI Labs, San Francisco

  2. Associate Director

    Cognizant AI Labs, San Francisco

  3. Senior Research Scientist

    Sentient Technologies, San Francisco
    Research team acquired by Cognizant

  4. Software Engineer

    Sea, Singapore

Education

  1. Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence

    National University of Singapore
    • Awardee of NGS Scholarship (now renamed ISEP Scholarship)
    • Thesis title: Differential Evolution-based Methods for Numerical Optimization
    • Supervisors: Prof. Kay Chen Tan (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Jian-Xin Xu (IEEE Fellow)
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  2. B.Eng, Electrical Engineering

    Nanjing University
    • Awardee of National Scholarship (awarded to top 0.2% undergraduate students in China)
    • Major GPA: 92.02/100
Awards
Best Paper Award, GA @ GECCO 2022
the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022 ∙ July 2022
Best Paper Award of the Genetic Algorithms (GA) track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022.
Silver Award, Humies @ GECCO 2022
the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022 ∙ July 2022
Silver Award in the Human Competitive Results Competition at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022.
Best Paper Award, GECH @ GECCO 2020
the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020 ∙ July 2020
Best Paper Award of the General Evolutionary Computation and Hybrids (GECH) track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020.
NGS Scholarship
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering ∙ August 2012
SGD$ 247600 for 4 years’ Ph.D studies (2012-2016). Now renamed ISEP Scholarship.
National Scholarship
Chinese Ministry of Education ∙ November 2010
awarded to top 0.2% undergraduate students in China
Scholarship of People
Chinese Ministry of Education ∙ Present
received twice in 2009 and 2011