Biography
I’m a PhD student/univ. predoctoral assistant at the University of Vienna since 2026, working under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Tierney.
I have an MScR from the University of Bristol, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Weiru Liu and Dr Kevin McAreavey on explainable AI for reinforcement learning (RL)/automated planning. Over time, I explored topics in imitation learning, RL and high-dim statistics, e.g., with Dr Yangchun Zhang at Shanghai University.
My research at Vienna focuses on algorithm configuration & automated heuristic discovery for combinatorial optimisation.
Research Interests
- Algorithm Configuration
- Reinforcement learning
- Explainable AI for RL/planning
Curriculum Vitae
Shanghai University
Shanghai China, 2018-2022
Contact
E: xiaowei $\cdot$ liu $\Box$ univie $\cdot$ ac $\cdot$ at
(Note: “$\cdot$” $\rightarrow$ “.” and “$\Box$” $\rightarrow$ “@”)
A quote that I like:
The equation of the heaven and earth
remains unsolved.
(Yehuda Amichai)
You may find this on An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, by Y. Pinchover and J. Rubinstein (2005).