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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

AI Thrust, HKUST (GZ)

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Dr. Yao SHU (舒瑶) is now a tenure-track assistant professor of Artificial Intelligence Thrust at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), starting from April 8, 2025. He was previously a researcher at the Guangdong Lab of AI and Digital Economy (SZ) under the Genius Nova Programme. Before that, Dr. Yao SHU was a senior researcher (Tencent Technical Fellow) at Tencent in 2023 and a Research Fellow (PostDoc.) 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 (Associate Vice President (AI) of NUS and Deputy Director of NUS AI Institute), 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 is publishing actively in top AI conferences, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, and UAI. He also serves as a reviewer for leading AI conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, UAI, AISTATS, AAMAS, etc.

I am looking for self-motivated research assistants and interns. We may work on the following topics or other exciting topics that attract you. If you are interested, please send your CV and transcripts to [email protected].

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