curriculum vitae
General Information
| First Name, Last Name | Wendong, Liang |
| Languages | Chinese (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (beginner), Latin (beginner) |
Research Interests
- Theories and practices on information, interpretability and emergence of intelligence.
Education
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2023 - now
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems - PhD student
- Tübingen, Germany
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2019-2023
ENS Paris-Saclay – Diploma of ENS
- Admitted in mathematics as ”Normalien”. One of the leading schools in France in mathematical sciences.
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2020 - 2022
University Paris-Saclay – M.Sc. in Mathematics, Statistics and Machine Learning
- Thesis: Independent Mechanisms in Neural Networks
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2017 - 2020
University/ENS Paris-Saclay – B.Sc. in Mathematics
- Thesis: Topological Data Analysis and Graph Decomposition
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2014 - 2018
Nankai University – B.A. in French and Philosophy
- Thesis: Ontologie axiomatique simondonnienne
Work Experience
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2022 - 2023
Guest Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Tübingen, Germany
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Summer 2021
Intern at Innsbruck University
- Advisor: Tobias Fritz
- Research on gs-monoidal categories and Markov categories, published at Applied Categorical Structures.
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Summer 2020
Intern at Centre Borelli
- Topological Data Analysis and Graph Decomposition.
Honors and Awards
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Scholarships
- Sophie Germain Master's Scholarship (2020, 2021)
- Erasmus+ Scholarship (2021)
Computer skills
- ○ Programming languages: Python, R.
- ○ Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow.
Volunteering Activities
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2022 - 2023
- Member in Citizens' Forum in State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- - Topic: „Krisenfeste Gesellschaft“ (Crisis-proof Society)
- - 50 representatives chosen in Baden-Württemberg, in the domains of science and civil society.
Philosophy
- Interests: ontology and philosophy of science.