Dr. Fanghui Liu is currently an assistant professor at University of Warwick, UK, a member of Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP). His research focuses on foundations of modern machine learning and efficient algorithm design. For his work, he was a recipient of AAAI'24 New Faculty Award, Rising Star in AI (KAUST 2023), co-founded the first fine-tuning workshop at NeurIPS'24, and presented three tutorials at ISIT’24, CVPR’23, and ICASSP’23, respectively. He also serves as an area chair of NeurIPS, ICLR and AISTATS, etc. Prior to his current position, he worked as a postdoc researcher at EPFL (2021-2023) and KU Leuven (2019-2023), respectively. He obtained his PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019, receiving several Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Awards. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Harbin Institute of Technology in 2014.