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Jiayang Ren

A PhD student working on optimzation and control at University of British Columbia.

About Me

I am currently a doctoral student working with Prof. Yankai Cao at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada. I obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Control Science from Zhejiang University in 2018 and 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Dong Ni.

My research focuses on the global optimization of machine learning algorithms (such as clustering and decision tree) and their applications in process systems engineering (such as model predictive control and process monitoring).

In my spare time, I enjoy photography, traveling, aerobic sports (e.g. jogging, swimming, cycling, etc). Click Photography to see my albums on Instagram.


πŸ”₯ News

🎀 2022-10 Given a talk about " A Scalable Global Optimization Algorithm for K-Medoids Clustering " at CCEC 2022. Served as a session chair for three sessions about machine learning in process systems engineering.
πŸ“° 2022-09 Two papers about global optimization of large-scale K-Medoids Clustering and Decision Tree are accepted by NeurIPS 2022. Thanks to my co-authors Dr. Kaixun Hua and Prof. Yankai Cao.
🎀 2022-06 Given a talk about " A Scalable Global Optimization Algorithm for K-Center Clustering " at 2022 CORS/INFORMS International Conference.
πŸ† 2022-05 Honored to win UBC Affiliated Fellowship for 2022-2023.

πŸ“¬ Contact Me

  • rjy12307@mail.ubc.ca
  • Chemical & Biological Enigneering
    2360 East Mall
    Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3


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