About Me

I am a final-year Ph.D. student at Rutgers ECE Department, advised by Prof. Yuqian Zhang. I also work closely with Prof. Xin Bing and was also fortunate to visit Prof. Qiaosheng Zhang at Shanghai AI Lab. Previously, I earned my bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

My research focuses on the theoretical guarantees for statistical methods in machine learning and optimization problems. I am also interested in real-world applications of these methods.

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🎓 Education

• B.E. in Automation Engineering – UESTC, 2019
• Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering – Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Expected 2025)

📰 News

• March 2025 - Passed my Ph.D. defense. 🎉
• May 2024 – Started a research internship at Shanghai AI Lab.
• June 2023 – Began a Machine Learning internship at Alibaba.
• May 2023 – Submitted a new paper to NeurIPS 2023.
• March 2022 – Joined Futurewei (Huawei U.S) as a research intern.
• October 2021 – Passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam. 🎉
• September 2021 – Our paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2021 (Poster Session).

📚 Publications and preprints

• Unique Sparse Decomposition of Low Rank Matrices
  Joint work with Xin Bing and Yuqian Zhang.
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Shorter version accepted at NeurIPS 2021).

• Optimal Vintage Factor Analysis with Deflation Varimax
  Joint work with Xin Bing and Yuqian Zhang.
  to appear in The Annals of Statistics

• Community Detection for Contextual-LSBM
  Joint work with Qiaosheng Zhang and Yuqian Zhang.
  (Shorter version submitted to ISIT 2025)

💼 Industry Experience

Research Intern, Shanghai AI Lab (May 2024 – Aug 2024)

• Topic: Community detection for Contextual Label-SBM.

Machine Learning Intern, Alibaba – Taobao-Mall Group (June 2023 – Aug 2023)

• Topic: Search-enhanced recommendation systems.

Research Intern, Futurewei – AI Research (May 2022 – Aug 2022)

• Topic: Robustness analysis on graph clustering.

Research Intern, iFlytek – AI Lab (May 2019 – Aug 2019)

• Topic: machine translation estimation.

📬 Contact

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