Honors and Awards
- NUS Research Scholarship
- Aug 2017 – present
- Xijie Scholarship
- (Top 5%) in USTC
- Changxing Scholarship
- (Top 5%) in USTC
- National Encouragement Scholarship
- (Top 5%) in USTC
Education
- National University of Singapore, Singapore – August 2017 – Present
P.h.d in Operations Research
Institute of Operations Research and Analytics - University of Science and Technology of China September – 2013 – May 2017
Bachelor of Statistics, Science GPA: 3.92/4.3
Thesis: Dynamic Price Competition without Knowing Demand Function, with Prof. Hanqin Zhang
Research interest
- Optimization under uncertainty
- Supply chain management
- Statistics
- Information Theory
- Learning theory
Work experience
- Aviation Virtual Pte Ltd, Research Intern, Singapore – June 2018 – Aug 2018
- Built queuing simulation in a pharmacy by using Unity3D and Cave automatic virtual environment
- Study layout effect and customer behavior in a queuing system
- Alibaba Group, Research Intern, Hangzhou – Aug 2019 – Oct 2019
- Inventory planning
- Packing resource mathching
- Matching of streamers and sellers
Publications and working papers
- Qiuyu Zhu, Vincent Tan. ”Thompson Sampling Algorithms for Mean-Variance Bandits” Accepted by ICML 2020.
- Joel Chang, Qiuyu Zhu, Vincent Tan. ”Risk-Constrained Thompson Sampling for CVaR Bandits” Under review
Teaching experience
- Probability, Teaching Assitance, USTC
- Stochastic Process, Teaching Assitance, USTC
- Numerical Methods, Teaching Assitance, USTC
Presentations
- Thompson Sampling Algorithms for Gaussian Mean-Variance Bandits, 2019, Seattle, Informs Annual Meeting.
- Thompson Sampling Algorithms for Gaussian Mean-Variance Bandits, 2020, Vienna, 37th International Conference on Machine Learning.
