Fang Kong

Fang Kong Assistant Professor Department of Statistics and Data Science Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Email: kongf@sustech.edu.cn [CV]  [GoogleScholar]  [DBLP]  [GitHub]

About me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology.

I obtained my PhD degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Prof. Shuai Li. I received the CCF Doctoral Dissertation Award in Agent and Multi-Agent Systems in 2025 (as the sole national recipient) and the Baidu Scholarship in 2023 (one of only 10 recipients worldwide). I obtained my bachelor's degree in software engineering from Shandong University (1/318). During my PhD, I worked as a research intern at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tencent Wechat, Microsoft Research Asia, and Alibaba Damo Academy.

I am broadly interested in developing theoretically grounded algorithms for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning, and their applications across different stages of LLMs.

I am always looking for visiting students, research assistants, and postdocs. Please contact me if you are interested.

I have one open Master’s position available for motivated students.