Zijie Geng

About Me

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student in School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from School of the Gifted Young (SGY) at USTC in 2022. I am pursuing my Ph.D. in MIRA Lab at USTC, under the supervision of Prof. Jie Wang.

Learning-based optimization systems with practical efficiency; applications in MILP and EDA (instance generation, placement, solver acceleration).

Keywords: MILP · Combinatorial Optimization · EDA · LLM Efficiency

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

University of Science and Technology of China 2024 – Present

M.S. Candidate, Electronic Engineering and Information Science

University of Science and Technology of China 2022 – 2024

B.S., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, School of the Gifted Young

University of Science and Technology of China 2018 – 2022

High School

Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School 2016 – 2018

2024 National Scholarship

2022 MSRA Stars of Tomorrow

2021 S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest (Analysis and PDEs), Outstanding Prize

2020 The Chinese Mathematics Competitions (CMC), First Prize in Anhui Province

2020 S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest (Applied and Computational Mathematics), Outstanding Prize

Research Intern 2023/08 – Present

Working in the Decision Making & Reasoning group. Mentor: Siyuan Xu.

Research Intern 02/2022 – 12/2022

Worked in the DRL group and MSR AI4Science. Mentors: Shufang Xie and Yingce Xia. Awarded "MSRA Stars of Tomorrow".

Shareholder & Executive 11/2020 – Present

Co-founded with friends after high school. Goal: "Bring People Together, Make The World Better." Developed TalesStreet and other products.