Weiran Huang

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Weiran Huang (黄维然)
Associate Professor
Qing Yuan Research Institute
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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About Me

I am an associate professor at Qing Yuan Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working on data-efficient machine learning algorithms and their applications. I earned my PhD in computer science from Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University, where I had the honor of being supervised by Turing Award Laureate Prof. Andrew Yao and IEEE Fellow Dr. Wei Chen. Prior to that, I received my bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. Additionally, I was a visiting scholar hosted by Prof. Yaron Singer at Harvard SEAS.

My research interests are broadly in

  • Machine Learning Theory: Understanding the fundamental principles of machine learning, e.g., network capacity, optimization method and generalization ability, and providing insights for algorithms.

  • Self-Supervised Learning: Self-supervised learning aims to pre-train a powerful feature extractor through a self-supervised task using a large amount of unlabeled data, such that the learned image representations can be efficiently adapted to downstream tasks.

  • Few-Shot Learning: Few-shot learning is the problem of making predictions on new tasks containing only a few samples with supervised information.

Students / Interns / Postdocs (招生)

I am actively seeking self-motivated graduate students, as well as interns and postdocs, who are interested in joining our lab.

If you're interested, please email me your CV. Before reaching out, please carefully read our latest guidelines (招生须知).

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Education & Work Experience

  • 2012–2018: PhD in Computer Science, Tsinghua University (Advisor: Andrew Yao)

  • 2009–2012: BSc in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

  • 2008–2009: Fundamental Science Class (数理基科班), Tsinghua University

  • 2022/12–Present: Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • 2018/07–2022/11: Research Scientist at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab (Director: Jun Yao)

  • 2018/03–2018/06: Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia (Mentor: Wei Chen)

  • 2017/11–2018/02: Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (Advisor: Yaron Singer)

  • 2015/08–2017/10: Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia (Mentor: Wei Chen)

Awards & Honors

Services

  • Reviewer: ICML (2022-2023), NeurIPS (2019-2023), ICLR (2022-2024).