Hey there, I’m Pinqiao!
About
I am a first-year Ph.D student at UVA School of Data Science, and I am currently a Research Assitant at the RISE Lab led by Prof.Sheng Li. Before I was a Master’s Student at Columbia University, where I was a Departmental Research Assistant with Prof. Bruce Yang and Prof. Christina Wang. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in statistics and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I worked with Prof. Yufeng Liu.
Research Interest
Develop Quantitative Methods to understand agent behaviors for designing efficient algorithmic-based systems of LLM and to create reliable agent-based applications in 1)Finance (stock market/Predictive models/Equity research), 2)Statistical Imaging, and other potential fields.
- ML/AI, NLP
- Multi-Agent Systems
- LLM Reasoning
- AI Application
News
- Feb 2025: Officially admitted and committed to my offer at UVA!
- Nov 2024:Invited Oral presentation(less than 5%) at ACM ICAIF 2024!
- Nov 2024: One paper is accepted by ACM ICAIF 2024!
- May 2024: I joined Agam Capital as a summer AI Research Assistant!
- Feb 2024: I joined Columbia CarbonTech Development Initiative as a Student Research Assistant!
- Nov 2023: I was selected as the Departmental Student Representative at Columbia Statistics Department!
- Nov 2023: I joined the AI Research Lab in AI4Finance Foundation as an AI/ML Researcher!
- Oct 2023: I won the Columbia NYC Hackathon 1st place!
- May 2023: I joined the Baidu AI Lab as a Research Intern!
- May 2023: I graduated from UNC-CH with the highest honor!
- Mar 2023: I was admitted to the MS Data Science program at the University of Chicago
- Mar 2023: I was admitted to the MS Statistics program at Northwestern University
- Feb 2023: I was admitted to the MS Statistics program at Columbia University!
- Sep 2022: I joined Liu Lab at UNC-CH as a Research Assistant!
Project/Paper Study
Working Experience
- Nov 2024 - Present, AI Advisory Board Member, Ingenious Frameworks
- May 2024 - Aug.2024, AI Research Intern, Agam Capital Management, LLC
- Nov 2023 - Present, AL/ML Researcher, AI4Finance Foundation
- May 2023 - Aug.2023, Research Intern, Baidu NLP
Teaching
- Spring 2023, Teaching assistant in STAT565 Machine Learning, UNC-CH
