I am a fourth-year Ph.D. Student at Rutgers ECE department, fortunately advised by Prof. Yuqian Zhang. I also work closely with Prof. Xin Bing. Previously I got my bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC). My research focuses on the theoretical guarantee for statistical methods of machine learning and optimization problems. I am also interested in its related application in real worlds.

Education

• B.S. in UESTC, 2019
• Ph.D in Rutgers University, New Brunswick

News

Jun 2023: Start my new position as a Machine Learning intern at Alibaba.

May 2023: Submitted a new paper to NeurIPS 2023.

Mar 2022: I will join Futurewei(Huawei U.S) as a research intern this summer.

Oct 2021: Passed my qualifying exam. Thanks for my advisor’s help on my exam!

Sep 2021: Our paper got accepted by NeurIPS 2021 poster.

Publications

• Unique sparse decomposition of low rank matrices link

  Joint work with Xin Bing and Yuqian Zhang.

  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (Shorter version accepted by Neurips 2021)

• Optimal vintage factor analysis with deflation varimax link

  Joint work with Xin Bing and Yuqian Zhang.

  (Submitted to Annals of Statistics)

Industry experience

• June 2023 - Aug 2023: Machine Learning Intern
  • Alibaba, Taobao-Mall Group
  • Duties included: Search enhanced recommendation system
• May 2022 - Aug 2022: Research Intern
  • Futurewei, AI research
  • Duties included: Graph Clustering Robustness Analysis
• May 2019 - Aug 2019: Research Intern
  • iFlytek, AI Lab.
  • Duties included: Machine Translation Estimation

Contact

Email: dj370@scarletmail.rutgers.edu / uestcjd@gmail.com