Jikai Jin
Ph.D. student · Stanford university
I’m a third-year Ph.D. at Stanford ICME, advised by Prof. Vasilis Syrgkanis. Previously I studied computational mathematics at Peking University, advised by Prof. Liwei Wang.
I work on the frontier of intelligence, specifically on making data-driven algorithms more principled, more robust, and better adapted to societal considerations.
You can download my CV here.
Recent News
May 2026 Our paper Adaptive Exploration for Latent-State Bandits is accepted by ACM KDD 2026!
May 2026 Our paper Prescriptive Scaling Reveals the Evolution of Language Model Capabilities is accepted by ICML 2026 as an oral presentation (top 0.7%)!
May 2026 Our paper Policy Learning with Abstention is accepted by AISTATS 2026!
Feb. 2026 New paper on prescriptive scaling law posted on ArXiv!
Feb. 2026 New paper Adaptive Exploration for Latent-State Bandits posted on ArXiv! Grateful to Kenneth Hung and Congshan Zhang for their amazing mentorship at Meta.
Featured Publications
Prescriptive Scaling Reveals the Evolution of Language Model Capabilities
In the Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (oral, top 0.7%) · 2026Policy Learning with Abstention
In the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics · 2026Discovering Hierarchical Latent Capabilities of Language Models via Causal Representation Learning
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10378 · 2025Solving Inequality Proofs with Large Language Models
In the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems · 2025
Blog
Prescriptive Scaling for Language Models
Beyond average trends: mapping compute budgets to reliable downstream performance after post-training
Gallery
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Experience
- Jun 2025 – Sep 2025Meta Central Applied ScienceResearch Scientist Intern, mentored by Dr. Kenneth HungWork on bandit algorithms for dynamic experimentation.
- Feb 2020 – Jun 2023Peking University School of EECSundergraduate researcher, advised by Prof. Liwei WangWork on machine learning theory.
Education
- 2023 - 2027 (expected)Ph.D. in Computational and Mathematical EngineeringStanford University
- 2019 - 2023BSc in Computational MathematicsPeking University
- 2017 - 2019High School DiplomaNo.2 High School of East China Normal University
Awards and Honors
Jun. 2023 Huaixin Scholar, BICMR
Jun. 2023 Peking University Excellent Graduate.
Jan. 2023 Sensetime Scholarship (awarded to 30 Chinese undergraduate students in the field of AI).
May 2021 Bronze Medal, S.T. Yau College Student Mathematics Competition, probability and statistics individual.
Feb. 2019 Silver Medal, 11th Romania Masters of Mathematics.
Oct. 2018 First Prize (ranked No.6), Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (CMO).
Oct. 2017 First Prize (ranked No.13), Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (CMO).
Contact
Best reached by email: jkjin@stanford.edu.