Jiashen Ren is a Ph.D. student in Data Science at the Applied Machine Learning Lab (AML Lab), Department of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Xiangyu Zhao. He received dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through the ZJU-UIUC Institute, where he worked with Prof. Qingchun Hou. His research interests include Machine Learning and Optimization.
📄 CV
🔥 News
- 2026.03: 🎉 T-SKM-Net published in AAAI 2026 proceedings (PDF, DOI).
📝 Publications

T-SKM-Net: Trainable Neural Network Framework for Linear Constraint Satisfaction via Sampling Kaczmarz-Motzkin Method PDF Poster Google Scholar
Haoyu Zhu, Yao Zhang, Jiashen Ren, Qingchun Hou
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 40(17):14431–14439, 2026. (Poster presentation.)
Linear constraint satisfaction via a trainable neural framework with a sampling Kaczmarz-Motzkin method.
💼 Experience
Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant
📖 Education
City University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Data Science, Applied Machine Learning Lab — Prof. Xiangyu Zhao | Sep 2026 –
Zhejiang University & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dual B.S. in Electrical Engineering | Sep 2022 - Jun 2026