Presenting at UAI 2026 in Amsterdam
Oral and poster presentation of our OMPB paper at UAI 2026, held at KIT in Amsterdam.
Blogs
Survey Paper Accepted by TMLR
Our CBO survey was accepted at TMLR, with a unified BO-loop review, a benchmark, and the PA-GAP metric.
AnyQRCode: A QR Code Generator That Runs Entirely in Your Browser
A browser-only QR generator I built for posters, with a hand-written ISO encoder and no server.
Paper Accepted by TMLR
PAC-Bayesian meta-learning for few-shot LTI identification, accepted as is at TMLR.
Paper Accepted as Oral at UAI 2026
Our OMPB paper was selected as an oral at UAI 2026, one of 24 orals from 1,087 submissions.
ICDM Trip
Notes from my first academic conference, presenting STDiffusion at ICDM 2025.
Abstract Accepted by JMM 2026
Our Expert-guided Causal Bayesian Optimization abstract was accepted for presentation at JMM 2026.
Kaggle Competition Silver Medal: MAP - Charting Student Math Misunderstandings
Silver medal (top 5%) in MAP, my first LLM competition, using LoRA and a consistency-weighted ensemble.
Kaggle Competition Silver Medal: Child Mind Institute-Detect Behavior with Sensor Data
Silver medal (top 1%) detecting BFRBs from wrist-worn IMU, thermopile, and time-of-flight sensors.
Paper Accepted by ICDM 2025
STDiffusion accepted as a regular paper at ICDM 2025, with a 13.5% full-paper acceptance rate.
Kaggle Competition Silver Medal: Child Mind Institute-Problematic Internet Use
First Kaggle silver (top 3%) predicting problematic internet use from noisy activity and tabular data.
Coffee Notes
Certificate Collection
A running gallery of SCA, Q Grader, and related coffee certificates.
Hiccup Class in Chengdu
A Chengdu coffee club afternoon where I taught my mom pour-over for the first time.
SCA CSP Barista Skills Intermediate Certificate
SCA Barista Skills Intermediate with Ye Kuang, covering espresso, milk texture, and station workflow.
Coffee Flower Tea: Panama Surfboard and Yunnan
Side-by-side tasting of Panama Surfboard and Yunnan coffee flower; the cup gap was smaller than the price.
SCA Registered Instructor
Passed the SCA instructor registration exam with a full score and can now teach Intro to Cupping.
Q Grader Certification
Earned the Q Grader certification as part of Chengdu’s first certified cohort.
SCA CSP Green Coffee—Intermediate Certificate
SCA Green Coffee Intermediate, from origin and processing to moisture, defects, and arrival-sample quality.
SCA CSP Sensory-Professional and CVA-Cupper Certificate
SCA Sensory Professional and CVA-Cupper certificates, covering cupping protocol and coffee value assessment.
Leaves Panama Elida Torre 060324
Bypass-brewing Leaves’ Elida Torre natural to keep early acidity and sweetness without over-extraction.
Leaves Coffee Roaster Yasuo Ishii Meetup
A rainy Kumquat pop-up with Yasuo Ishii, brewing Colombian Geisha and Ethiopian 74158 in double batches.
SCA CSP Brewing-Professional Certificate
SCA Brewing Professional with Ye Kuang, from infrared syphon work to pour-over, immersion, and batch brewing.
Panama Finca Nuguo Geisha 535-N-NS & 508-WS40
Comparing Nuguo 535-N-NS natural and 508-WS40 washed Geisha lots for cleanliness and complexity.
Panama Geisha Cupping
My first cupping, a Panama Geisha lineup that made the variety less mythical and my palate more honest.