Students

Postdoc at HKUST

• Lu Zhang (2026.10 - )

PhD Students at HKUST

• Kejie Zhao (2026 Fall - )

• Shihan Tang (2026 Fall - )

• Zhenghao Li (2026 Spring - )

• Ning Xu (2026 Spring -)
  

• Weitao Cheng (2025 Fall - )
  

• Zijun Chen (2022 Fall -)
  Co-advised with Ke Yi
  

Research Assistants at HKUST

• Xiejian Chi (2026.8 - )
  Joint project: Inventory Foundation Model
  Joint work with Jiameng Lyu and Chenhao Wang
  

• Yanli Liu (2026.11 - )

Students Current Working with Me

• Chenyu Lu (Undergraduate @ HKUST)
  Joint project: Distributionally Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning: Finite-Sample Guarantees under Weak Communication
  Joint work with Zijun Chen
  

• Yuxuan Gu (Undergraduate @ UMich)
  Joint project: Mechanistic Interpretability of Tabular Foundation Models
  Joint work with Junting Duan
  

• Mingyuan Xu (PhD @ NUS)
  Joint project: Learning Sequential Decisions from Multiple Sources via Group-Robust Markov Decision Processes
  Joint work with Doudou Zhou
  

• Chenyu Zhang (Undergraduate @ BNU → PhD @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  Joint project: Debiasing Seller-Side Experiments under Multinomial Logit Models in Two-Sided Platforms
  Joint work with Zeyu Zheng and Yuhang Wu
  

• Chenran Weng (Undergraduate @ USTC → PhD @ University of California, Berkeley)
  Joint project: Experimental Design in Live-Interation Platforms
  Joint work with Xiao Lei
  

• Haoyu Liu (PhD @ University of California, Berkeley)
  Joint project: Incentive-Compative Experiments in Platforms
  Joint work with Zeyu Zheng and Chang liu
  

• Zitao Wang (PhD @ Columbia Stats)
  Joint project 1: Multi-source Stable Variable Importance Measure via Adversarial Machine Learning
  Joint project 2: Knowledge-Guided Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization
  Joint work with Molei Liu and Zijian Guo
  

Students Previously Worked with Me

• Xinqi Chen (Undergraduate @ USTC → PhD @ University of California, Berkeley)
  Joint project: Experimental Designs for Multi-Item Multi-Period Inventory Control
  Joint work with Zeyu Zheng and Xingyu Bai
  

• Hao Liu (PhD @ Stanford)
  Joint project: ScoreFusion: Fusing Score-based Generative Models via Kullback-Leibler Barycenters
  Joint work with Jose Blanchet
  

• Jiachen Xu (MPhil @ HKUST → PhD @ Columbia Stats)

• Nanshan Jia (Undergraduate @ PKU → PhD @ University of California, Berkeley)
  Joint project: Experimentation for Different Scheduling Policies on Queues: Mixed Differences-in-Q Estimators Based on Little’s Law
  Joint work with Zeyu Zheng and Ramesh Johari