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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 (BSc Math, SJTU Zhiyuan): since 2026.09

• Xiaode Xu (BSc Math, Xiamen University): since 2026.09

• Yitian Pang (BSc Math, SJTU): since 2027.09 (incoming)

• Kaishun Ruan (Bsc Math, SJTU); since 2027.09 (incoming)

Undergraduate Students

• Yanzhe Chen (SJTU Math): since 2026.03 (arXiv).

• Siyuan Sheng (SJTU Math): since 2026.10

• Chenfeng Yuan (SJTU Zhiyuan Math): since 2026.10 (bachelor thesis)

University of Warwick

PhD Students

• Yuanhe Zhang (MMathStat, Warwick); 2024.10 - 2026.08. (ICML’25 Oral, ICLR’26,ICML’26)

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

Undergraduate Students

• Yikuan Li (arXiv)

Former Students and Mentees

Earlier visiting and mentoring relationships, including those predating FLINT.

Visiting Students

• Yichen Wang — visiting student from SJTU, 2024.09–2024.12 at Warwick; now PhD at UW–Madison. NeurIPS’25

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.