I am currently a tenure-track research professor (特别研究员) at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). I am also an academic assistant to the department head, and to the head of Center for Cognitive Machines and Computational Health (CMaCH，电信学院认知机器与计算健康研究中心), School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering (SEIEE), SJTU.

My research interests include machine learning, neural combinatorial optimization, causal discovery and reasoning, and applications in finance, bioinformatics, and computational health. 

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I obtained my B.Sc. from School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University (PKU), in 2006, and Ph.D. from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2012, under the supervision of Professor Lei Xu. I worked as postdoctoral associate in Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, between 2012 and 2017, under Professor Zhiping Weng and also Professor Craig Mello who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006.