Hi! I’m Yifan

I am a first-year ELLIS PhD student at the Probabilistic Machine Learning Group at Aalto University and ELLIS Unit Helsinki, where I am profoundly privileged to be under the mentorship of Professor Samuel Kaski. Under ELLIS, I am also fortunate to have Doctor Mingfei Sun at the University of Manchester as my co-supervisor. My PhD research focuses on computational rationality in AI-assisted decision making.

Previously, I was a thesis worker and research assistant at the Computational Behavior Lab in Aalto under the splendid supervision of Professor Antti Oulasvirta and Doctor Suyog Chandramouli, where I received invaluable guidance towards research in Human-Computer Interaction. During this experience, I was lucky enough to finally discover my passion in Interactive AI and Human-AI Collaboration after 5 years of exploration and exploitation. I obtained my Master’s degree with honors in Computer Science from Aalto University. During my undergraduate studies in Computer Science at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, I am grateful for the invaluable academic guidance received from Professor Kun Zhu. I was also a nominated visiting student to the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, where I initially discovered my deep interests in Machine Learning.