Ziye Ma

Ziye Ma

Presidential Assistant Professor @CS, CityUHK

MOFA Lab

Welcome to the MOFA(Machine Optimization and Fundamental Algorithms) Lab! Our goal is to establish explainable and simple rules for tackling modern machine learning, mostly via the use of optimization theory and alike.

PhD Students

Xiaying Chen

Xiaying is a Ph.D. student both in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong and at Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI), supervised by Professor Ziye Ma. She focuses on efficient machine learning techniques.

Education:

  • B.Sc. in Automation, Beihang University

Changrui Fang

Changrui is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Professor Ziye Ma. His research interests include optimization, data efficient ML, and various mathematical topics. He also won a national second prize in mathematical modelling contest of China.

Education:

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics, Wuhan Univeristy

Bowen Zhang

Bowen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Professor Ziye Ma. He mostly focuses on fine-tuning techniques.

Education:

  • B.Sc. in Automation, Zhejiang University
  • M.S. in EE, Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong

Jiahe Chen

Jiahe is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Professor Ziye Ma. He mostly focuses on zeroth-order optimization and machine learning.

Education:

  • B.Sc. in EECS, Peking University

Tianqi Shen

Tianqi Shen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Professor Ziye Ma. His research focuses on optimization algorithms for machine learning and their applications. His interests include matrix sensing, tensor algebra, and topological data analysis.

Education:

  • M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems, Beihang University
  • B.Sc. in Control and Mathematics, Beihang University

MPhil Students

Runze Shi

Runze is a MPhil student in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests mostly focuse on mathematical parts of machine learning.

Education:

  • B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Birmingham

Research Assistants

Jinji Yang

He is currently a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include matrix optimization and matrix sensing.

Education:

  • M.Sc. in Operations Research and Control, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
  • B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Kunhan Gao

GAO Kunhan is an undergraduate student at City University of Hong Kong and part-time RA at MOFA. Her research interests focus around the optimization of machine learning algorithms and combinatorial optimization.

Education:

  • B.Sc. in Data Science (Ongoing), City University of Hong Kong

Join Us

For those who are interested in joining our lab, we have a separate page for that.