Yangxinyu Xie

Yangxinyu Xie
  • PhD Student

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Overview

This is Xinyu! I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Dr. Weijie Su and Dr. Linda Zhao In the meantime, I work with by Dr. Tanwi Mallick at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory.

My recent work focuses on probing and improving the safety aspects of deploying AI models. In general, I am interested in the theory and applications of machine learning and statistics. In my spare time, I also participate in hackathons and data science competitions.

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Awards and Honors

2024

Load Disaggregation Challenge: Energy Use in Buildings, 2nd Place

ADRENALIN Energy Competitions

Team Members: Ngoc Mai Tran, Yangxinyu Xie

2023

CityLearn Challenge Forecasting Track, 2nd Place

NeurIPS

Team Members: Tanwi Mallick, Ngoc Mai Tran, Yangxinyu Xie

2022

Longhorn Research Poster Session Award, 3rd Place

Research Week

University of Texas at Austin

2021

Science4cast Competition, 2nd Place

IEEE BigData Cup Challenges

Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (Vienna, Austria)

Team Members: Ngoc Mai Tran, Yangxinyu Xie

2021

Smart City Hackathon, 1st Place

Good Systems

University of Texas at Austin

Team Members: Jacob Helwig, Jack Si, Yangxinyu Xie

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