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Jiayang Ren

A PhD student working on optimzation, interpretable machine learning, and control at University of British Columbia.

Experience

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Internship

  • Aug 2023 - April 2024, BC Hydro and Power Authority, Intern Research Engineer for hydro resource scheduling.
  • Apr 2017 – Sept 2017, Samsung (China) Research and Development Co.,Ltd, Intern Software Engineer for Firmware Development.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Academic Services

  • Serve as a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate courses:
    • 2023-2025, UBC CHBE366 Chemical Engineering Lab (Data Analysis Lab, 200 students)
  • Serve as a mentor for undergraduate students:
    • Mitacs Globalink Program - Deep learning-based Control (2 students)
    • Mitacs Globalink Program - Global Optimization for Clustering Models (1 student)
  • Serve as a Reviewer for Journals:
    • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
    • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
  • Serve as a Reviewer for Conferences:
    • CDC, ICLR, BigData, ACMMM, CIKM, NeurIPS, ICML.
  • Serve as a Session Chair for Conferences:
    • Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference 2022.
  • Oral or Poster Presenter:
    • AICHE Annual Meeting 2024, IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM 2024), TrustML Workshop @ UBC 2023, Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference 2022, CORS/INFORMS International Conference 2022, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022.
  • 2018-2022, IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, Blog Writer for the General Audience

πŸ† Honors and Awards

  • Dec 2025, CDC 2025 Student Travel Award
  • Nov 2025, AICHE CAST Director’s Student Presentation Award Finalists
  • 2025-2027, Wall Research Awards
  • 2024-2025, Westcoast Energy Inc Jack Davis Scholarship in Energy Studies
  • 2023-2024, Josephine T Berthier Fellowship
  • Nov 2022, NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award
  • Aug 2022, 17th Informs Data Mining Workshop - Best Theoretical Paper (Global Optimal Decision Tree)
  • 2022-2023, University of British Columbia Affiliate Fellowship
  • 2018-2021, Zhejiang University Scholarship for Outstanding Students