Education

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics
  • Funded by the EU MSCA project ModConFlex
  • 2022.10-2026.10
• Beihang University, Beijing, China
  • M.Eng. in Control Science and Engineering
  • 2018.09-2021.01
• Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
  • B.Eng. in Aircraft Design and Engineering
  • 2014.09-2018.06

Experience

• University of Bonn, Visiting Student, 2026.07-present
  Supervised by Prof. Shadi Albarqouni. Working on interpretable and robust federated learning algorithms, with a particular focus on privacy-preserving collaborative learning in healthcare.

• Technische Universität München, Academic Secondment, 2025.12-2026.01 and 2026.04-2026.05
  Supervised by Prof. Nils Thuerey. Worked on conflict-resolved aggregation methods for federated learning and fairness-accuracy trade-offs under heterogeneous client data.
• Technische Universität Braunschweig, Bachelor’s Thesis Exchange, 2018.02-2018.07
  Supervised by Prof. Peter Hecker and Markus Bobbe. Modeled the kinematics and dynamics of the IceMole probe and developed a 3D path-planning algorithm for obstacle avoidance.

Teaching and Student Supervision

• Teaching Assistant for the Master’s course Introduction to Control and Machine Learning at FAU. Semesters: Summer 2024, Winter 2024/25, Summer 2025, Winter 2025/26.
• Co-supervised two Master’s theses at FAU.

Academic Activities

• 24th European Control Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, Jul 2026 (Talk)
• ModConFlex 4th Network Meeting, Wuppertal, Germany, Jun 2026 (Talk)
• SIAM Conference on Optimization, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Jun 2026 (Talk)
• The Mathematics of Scientific Machine Learning and Digital Twins, Erice, Italy, Nov 2025 (Talk)
• ModConFlex 3rd Network Meeting, Besancon, France, Oct 2025 (Talk)
• Recent Trends in Applied Mathematics and Machine Learning, Changchun, China, Jul 2025 (Talk)
• Machine Learning and PDEs Workshop, Erlangen, Germany, Apr 2025
• Oberwolfach Seminar on Control and Machine Learning, Oberwolfach, Germany, Nov 2024
• Workshop on Control, Inversion and Numerics for PDEs, Shanghai, China, Oct 2024 (Poster)
• X PDE, Optimal Design, and Numerics Workshop, Benasque, Spain, Aug 2024 (Talk)
• CIME Summer School on PDEs, Control, and Deep Learning, Cetraro, Italy, Jul 2024
• EECI-IGSC Control and Machine Learning Summer School, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Jul 2024
• ModConFlex 2nd Network Meeting, Anglet, France, Jun 2024 (Talk)
• ModConFlex 1st Network Meeting, Enschede, Netherlands, Nov 2023