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Incoming Assistant Professor

AI Thrust, HKUST (GZ)

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Bio

Dr. Yao Shu (舒瑶) is an incoming assistant professor in the Artificial Intelligence Thrust (AI) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), starting April 8, 2025. He currently servers as a researcher at the Guangdong Lab of AI and Digital Economy (SZ) under the Genius Nova Programme, focusing on pioneering advancements in principled artificial intelligence research. Before that, Dr. Yao Shu was a senior researcher (Tencent Technical Fellow) at Tencent in 2023 and a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2022. He received his PhD from the NUS School of Computing in 2022 under the esteemed guidance of Prof. Bryan Low, where he was awarded the IMDA Excellence in Computing Prize for the best PhD thesis in the school, as well as the Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award for significant research achievements during his doctoral studies. Dr. Shu's research focuses on developing advanced algorithms that are both theoretically sound and practically useful learning and optimization algorithms. He has published about 21 papers in top AI conferences, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, EMNLP, and UAI. He also serves as a reviewer for leading AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, UAI, AISTATS, and AAMAS.

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