People and Mentoring

[FLINT Lab] · [中文介绍] · [Open Positions]

Group lead: Fanghui Liu (刘方辉) — tenure-track associate professor, SJTU. [中文简介]

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

PhD Students

  • Yining Qian (钱奕宁) — BSc Math, SJTU Zhiyuan; since 2026.09.

  • Yitian Pang (庞逸天) — BSc Math, SJTU; since 2027.09 (incoming)

Undergraduate Students

  • Yanzhe Chen (陈衍哲) — SJTU Math; research since 2026.03 (arXiv).

University of Warwick

PhD Students

  • Joao Felipe Lobo Pevidor — BSc & MSc CS, Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil; since 2025.10. (NeurIPS’26)

  • Yi Lu — BSc Math & master's in Stats, Warwick; incoming 2026.10; co-supervisor: Ranko Lazic.

Former Students and Mentees

Earlier visiting and mentoring relationships, including those predating FLINT.

Visiting Students

EPFL and KU Leuven

I previously provided daily supervision for BSc, MSc and PhD semester projects and theses at EPFL, and MSc theses at KU Leuven.

  • Yihang Chen — EPFL MSc → PhD at UCLA (ICLR’24 Spotlight; ICML’24).

  • Elias Abad Rocamora — EPFL visiting student → EPFL PhD → Google DeepMind (NeurIPS’22; ICLR’24; ICML’24).

  • Yongtao Wu — EPFL visiting student → EPFL PhD (NeurIPS’22; NeurIPS’23; ICLR’24).

  • Zhenyu Zhu — EPFL MSc → EPFL PhD (NeurIPS’22; ICML’23; ICLR’25).

  • Zhan Li — EPFL MSc → Ant Group.

  • Edmund Hofflin — EPFL MSc → Oxford PhD.

Please see Open Positions for current opportunities and application information.