I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, advised by Prof. Andrew Clark and Prof. Netanel Raviv. I received my M.S. in Systems Science and Mathematics from WashU in 2024, and my B.S. in Information Management and Information Systems from Sichuan University in 2021. My research focuses on universal principles of complex systems, with a current emphasis on higher-order interactions — specifically through Partial Information Decomposition (PID) and higher-order network control.
![]() 2024 - Present Ph.D. in Systems Science and MathematicsExtracurricular Activities:
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![]() 2022 - 2024 M.S. in Systems Science and MathematicsExtracurricular Activities:
Honors:Honors Master Student; Outstanding Master’s Research Award | ||
![]() 2020 - 2020 Visiting Student, School of InformationExtracurricular Activities:
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![]() B.S. in Information Management and Information SystemsExtracurricular Activities:
Honors:Honors Graduate of Sichuan Province, 2021; Yongzhuang Top-10 Undergraduate Scholarship, 2019 |
We develop closed-form Gaussian estimators for multi-source PID, providing two-source redundancy, multi-source unique information, and K-th order synergistic effects. The estimators are derived from conditional-independence-based information measures and reduce to log-determinant expressions in covariance blocks.
This work establishes fundamental structural impossibility results for the antichain-lattice framework of Partial Information Decomposition.
We provide explicit closed-form formulas for all information atoms in the two-source case and prove that for three or more sources, PID suffers from fundamental inconsistencies. We propose alternative measures to address these issues.
This work identifies and analyzes the subsystem inconsistency problem in Partial Information Decomposition, showing that the whole can be less than the sum of its parts.
A comprehensive survey reviewing quantitative approaches to understanding causal emergence in complex systems, covering information-theoretic and computational methods.
We derive an explicit closed-form formula for the bivariate Partial Information Decomposition, providing analytical solutions for redundancy, unique information, and synergy.
Master’s thesis exploring the use of information decomposition frameworks to capture and quantify higher-order relationships in complex systems.
We introduce System Information Decomposition (SID), a holistic framework that decomposes the information entropy of all variables in a system into information atoms, going beyond the source-target paradigm of traditional PID.
This paper studies the dynamic issuance mechanism of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and its implications for monetary policy.
This paper proposes a blockchain-based credit mechanism for electronic honor certificate systems.
2021 - Present
Beijing / Online
Academic reading group organizer and speaker. For a detailed list of my activities, topics, and related links, see my Swarma profile.
2021 - Present
Fall 2024 - Fall 2026
Washington University in St. Louis
Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering.
Fall 2026 - Fall 2026
Fall 2025 - Fall 2025
Spring 2025 - Spring 2025
Fall 2024 - Fall 2024
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Online
Served as a reviewer for the following journals and conferences.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.