CV

Jiecheng Lu

jlu414@gatech.edu
(+1) 470 929 4016
Atlanta, Georgia, US

Summary

Ph.D. student in Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (Advisor: Shihao Yang). Research interests include foundation models, next‑generation sequence modeling for NLP/CV/time series, and linear attention mechanisms. Reviewer service: NeurIPS 2024 & 2025, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Machine Learning
    Present
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S. in Analytics
    2023-08
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Bachelor in Logistics Engineering
    2020-06
    Tianjin University

Work Experience

  • Data Scientist Intern
    2021-07 - 2022-07
    Tencent (Tencent Medical AI Lab - JARVIS Lab)
    Developed deep learning/statistical models and co-authored publications & patents for medical time-series applications.
    • Co-authored 2 papers on medical time series models and filed 6 patents as lead inventor.
    • Built models for medical insurance forecasting and epidemic monitoring.
    • Delivered tech solutions for medical facilities in 4 major cities, handling up to 10 million data points daily.
  • Business Analyst Intern
    2021-01 - 2021-07
    Amazon (Amazon Private Brands)
    Applied ML and causal inference for cost analysis; built AWS-based dashboards to support sourcing decisions.
    • Improved sourcing performance via data-driven methods for cost analysis.
    • Developed AWS-based dashboard web apps that helped save over $100,000 per month.
  • Research Assistant
    2020-09 - 2021-01
    Peking University (Guanghua School of Management)
    Contributed to projects in supply chain finance, risk hedging, and logistics network design.
    • Supported 10+ research projects and 4 papers.
    • Worked with stochastic programming, game theory, and structural equation models using CPLEX, Stata, AMOS, and Python.
  • Strategic and Data Analytics Intern
    2020-07 - 2020-09
    Country Garden Group
    Strategy and analytics internship experience.

Skills

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • SQL
  • Shell
  • JavaScript
  • R
  • Matlab

Frameworks & Tools

  • PyTorch
  • Hive
  • Spark
  • Docker
  • Tableau
  • Cplex
  • Stata

Domains

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Operations Research
  • Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Web Development
  • Cloud Computing

Publications

  • ZeroS: Zero‑Sum Linear Attention for Efficient Transformer
    2025
    NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)
  • Linear Transformers as VAR Models: Aligning Autoregressive Attention Mechanisms with Autoregressive Forecasting
    2025
    ICML 2025
  • WAVE: Weighted Autoregressive Varying Gate for Time Series Forecasting
    2025
    ICML 2025
  • In‑context Time Series Predictor
    2025
    ICLR 2025
  • CATS: Enhancing Multivariate Time Series Forecasting by Constructing Auxiliary Time Series as Exogenous Variables
    2024
    ICML 2024
  • ARM: Refining Multivariate Forecasting with Adaptive Temporal‑Contextual Learning
    2024
    ICLR 2024