Dr. Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Before joining Duke, Dr. Xu was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science from UCLA and his Bachelor's degree in mathematics from USTC. His research spans the areas of machine learning, optimization, reinforcement learning, and high-dimensional statistics, with a focus on developing and improving large-scale nonconvex optimization algorithms for machine learning applications. Dr. Xu’s work has been published in top-tier machine learning conferences and journals such as ICML, NeurIPS, COLT, ICLR, JMLR, PNAS, etc. He has received multiple awards for his research including the PIMCO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Science (2022), the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from UCLA (2021), Rising Stars in Data Science (2021), and the Presidential Fellowship in Data Science (2016) from the University of Virginia.
个人主页：
https://panxu-ai.github.io
现招收多名2023年秋季入读杜克大学的全奖博士研究生，申请链接见：
https://gradschool.duke.edu/admissions
可根据自己背景和需求，选择申请生物统计与生物信息系 (B&B)，计算机科学 (CS)，或者电子与计算机工程系 (ECE)。同时也招收优秀本科高年级学生或硕士研究生进行暑期研究实习 (远程)，进行科研指导合作。欢迎数理知识扎实 (数学分析，线性代数，概率论，高维统计，微分方程, etc.)，编程能力优秀，致力于研究机器学习和人工智能的同学们踊跃申请！
申请页面：
https://gradschool.duke.edu/admissions/application-instructions/
截止日期查询：
https://gradschool.duke.edu/admissions/application-deadlines/
已申请或想联系导师咨询请填写如下表格：
https://forms.office.com/r/0GZHa0PDF0
或发送邮件至 pan dot xu at duke dot edu（邮件主题请注明“[PhD Application 2023] + your name”，并随信附上个人简历及成绩单）。
