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 the foundations of machine learning and learning efficiency in practice. He was a recipient of AAAI'24 New Faculty Award, Rising Star in AI (KAUST 2023), co-founded the fine-tuning workshop at NeurIPS'24, and presented three tutorials at ISIT’24, CVPR’23, and ICASSP’23, respectively. He has served as an area chair of 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 received 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.