Zirui Yan

PhD student Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic institute Email: yanz11@rpi.edu/ziruiy1808@gmail.com Curriculum Vitae

About me

I am Ph.D. student in Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), working under the supervision of Prof. Ali Tajer. Before that, I graduated from University of Science and Technology of China.

Research

My current research topic is causal bandit (see github repo for brief summary) and the causality in Large Language models (LLM). I also have broad interests in the application of bandit in federated learning.

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic institute
  Ph.D in Computer & System Engineering, 2021.08-present
  Advisor: Prof. Ali Tajer

• University of Science and Technology of China
  B.Sc. Statistics, 2016.09-2020.05
  B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology, 2018.02-2020.05

News

• 09/2024: Our paper “Linear Causal Bandits: Unknown Graph and Soft Interventions” was accepted by NeurIPS 2024

• 08/2024: Finished a three-month internship at Yahoo! Research.

• 06/2024: Our paper “Improved Bound for Robust Causal Bandits with Linear Models” was accepted by ISIT 2024

• 01/2024: Our paper “Nonlinear Causal Bandits: General Causal Models and Interventions” will be appear in AISTATS 2024.

• 12/2023: I served as volunteer at NeurIPS 2023.

• 11/2023: Our paper “Robust Causal Bandits for Linear Models” is now on arXiv.

• 08/2023: Finished a three-month internship at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.