Academic Service

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).
  • Designed lectures on time series with deep learning and published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DUQnrBZyg5k?si=rAscs1t-JJixYN4x
  • 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
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data

Program Committee

  • NeurIPS 2022 SyntheticData4ML Workshop
  • ICDM 2023 AI for Time Series Workshop

Students Mentored

  1. Ruian Ge (MEng at Berkeley, 2022) → Google
  2. Siyuan Teng (MEng at Berkeley, 2022) → MLE @ Meta
  3. Qi Zeng (MEng at Berkeley, 2024) → MLE @ Google
  4. Zhijie Xu (Undergrad at CMU) → Master at CMU