Education
Ph.D. in AI/ML
University of Florida, advised by Prof. Mei Liu (Aug 2025 – )B.S. in Robotics
Heriot-Watt University, advised by Prof. Wei Pang (Sep 2021 - May 2025, expected)Computer Science
Ocean University of China, advised by Prof. Yanwei Yu and Prof. Shengke Wang (Sep 2021 - March 2024)
Research Experience
Honours Dissertation: Directed Graph Modeling for Academic Recommendation
Heriot-Watt University
Sep. 2024 – Present
- Investigated directed and heterogeneous graph structure to enhance academic paper recommendation system.
- Focused on integrating directed citation relationships and complex heterogeneous node interactions to improve model computational efficiency and paper recommendation accuracy. Project Link
Biomimetic Hexapod Robot Development
Ocean University of China (Feb. 2024 – May 2024)
- Designed a hexapod robot for visually-guided insect capture, integrating object recognition and motion planning.
- Reduced computational load using Layer-Adaptive Magnitude Pruning. GitHub Repository
FSU Research Intern: Open Source Graph Modeling Library
Florida State University
June 2024 – Present
- Integrate graph structure based mathematical model.
- Improve computational efficiency in large-scale datasets. Lab Page | Project Link
Group Recommendation Project
Ocean University of China (June 2023 – June 2024)
- The hypergraph probability matrix are introduced for group recommendation, which achieves better results in both commodity recommendation and user recommendation tasks.
- The new model improves the recommendation system accuracy and computational efficiency. GitHub Repository
Key Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Robotics: ROS, NVIDIA Jetson
- Data Science Tools: Hadoop, Spark, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, Matplotlib
- Embedded Systems: STM32, Raspberry Pi, Arduino
Honors and Awards
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship, 2022
- Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award, 2022