I started my research career in Tokyo, and I am now going back to Tokyo for another turning point in my life. AI is revolutionizing everything, creating an incredible opportunity to truly build our dreams. Some of my deepest passions lie in anime and mathematics—two seemingly unrelated fields—but it is now possible to bring them together. We are still early, and I am excited to see where this new frontier will give.

After four years of hard work, the Ph.D. defense marked an import milestone of my academic journey. My Ph.D. Thesis, honored with the Academic Thesis Prize, focuses on mathematical frameworks and algorithms for decision-making in multi-agent systems, making use of tools from online learning, game theory, and stochastic optimization. Along the way, I gained invaluable experiences at workshops in Luminy, Les Houches, Singapore, and a lot more. I am deeply grateful for my Ph.D. advisors for their support and guidance during these years.

To acquire industrial experience, I did a four-month applied science internship at Amazon in the third year of my Ph.D. During this internship, I had the great honor to work with my internship manager Shiva Kasiviswanathan and Principal Scientist Branislav Kveton on a stochastic bandit model (see this paper). Additionally, being part of the Causality team, led by Dominik Janzing and Yasser Jadidi, allowed me to gain an understanding of the basics of causality. Finally, the internship provided me with valuable experience in remote collaboration, as well as an enjoyable experience living in the beautiful medieval city of Tübingen, surrounded by nature.

As a fan of Japanese Culture, I decided to go to Japan for my first-year master’s internship. Thanks to my kind internship advisors (Masashi Sugiyama and Gang Niu) and co-workers, this internship marked the beginning of my research career. My work centered around weakly-supervised learning and my first paper was written. I also enjoyed very much the time off from work. I benefited from these five months so much that I dare say that it was probably my greatest turning point after my arrival in France.

The randomness of life brought me to France after I graduated from high school. I got this opportunity thanks to the CPGE Taiwan program which recruit Taiwanese students to study in French classe prepa through a maths exam. After 6 months of intensive French course in Taiwan, in July 2014, I embarked on the journey and started my study abroad life in France.

I was born in Taiwan, this beautiful island on which both western democracy and eastern lifestyle can be found. Yes, that is surprisingly rare. Moreover, Taiwan is also considered as one of the best places for expats living abroad and is the first in Asia that legalizes same-sex marriage. I am proud of being Taiwanese.