Yifan Wu
Postdoc at Microsoft Research (NE)
Experience
Education
- Northwestern University, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, 2020 - 2025.
- Peking University, Yuanpei College, B.S. in Computer Science (Turing Class, honor track), 2016 - 2020.
Experience
- Google Research, Student Researcher (remote), Mar - May 2025.
- Stanford University, visiting student researcher in Economics and MS&E, hosted by Vasilis Syrgkanis, academic year of 2023 - 2024.
Service
- Program Committee: AAAI 27, WINE (26, 25), COLT (26, 25), EC (26, 25), WWW 26, AIES 25, ALT (25, 24).
- Reviewer: TMLR, ICLR (26, 25, 24), ICML 26, NeurIPS (26, 25), WWW 25, SODA (26, 23), ITCS (26, 23), EC 23.
- Organizer of AISTATS’ 26 workshop: Towards Trustworthy Predictions: Theory and Applications of Calibration for Modern AI.
- Organizer of the FOCS’ 24 Workshop on Calibration.
- Organizer of the EC’ 24 Workshop on Information Acquisition.
Teaching
- Calibration (Foundations of Trustworthy ML), Fall 2024, co-lecturer, Northwestern University.
- Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, teaching assistant, Northwestern University.
- Discrete Math (I) (II), Fall 2018 - Spring 2019, teaching assistant, Peking University.