Instructor for MEng Capstone Projects - Time Series
UC Berkeley · Sep. 2021 - May 2025
Served as instructor for four years; closely mentored 8 projects with 40 students. All projects ended with full-sized academic reports.
First year: recommender systems with deep learning. Next three years: time series analysis with deep learning, where the application was inventory planning (M5 competition).
Won Fung Institute MEng Capstone Mentorship Award: Faculty (top 2/60+).
Advisor for the Hull Tactical Stock ERP Contest
UC Santa Barbara · Sep. 2019 - May. 2020
Provided tutorials on time series data processing and EDA, model selection, etc.
Association of Computational and Mathematical Modeling (AoCMM.org) — Founder & Director of a Math Modeling Educational Nonprofit
Cupertino, CA · May. 2015 - Jan. 2019
Goal: as a nonprofit, inspire high school students with the power of math modeling when applied to real-life research.
As the director, led my team to raise over $15,000 and host annual competitions with 500+ teams from 24 countries.
Worked closely with professors across the nation on creating free online tutorials, designing contest problems, and grading submissions.
Featured in multiple media outlets, such as MAA FOCUS, the official newsmagazine of Mathematical Association of America, as well as New England Board of Higher Education, etc.; we developed partnerships with Art of Problem Solving, Maplesoft, Ivy Global, etc.
Rank 3rd on Google for math modeling competitions.
Reviewer
NeurIPS: 2023, 2024, 2025
ICLR: 2025, 2026
NeurIPS 2024 Time Series in the Age of Large Models Workshop
ICML 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data