Rui Tao

About me

Hi there 👋 My name is Rui Tao (陶瑞). I am currently a first-year Ph.D. candidate at SIMIS, advised by Prof.Liangliang Shi.
Before joining SIMIS, I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from SJTU as a member of the IEEE Honor Class. I was fortunate to work as a research intern at ReThinkLab, advised by Prof.Junchi Yan.
My current interests span ML/DL, optimization, auto-formalization. Previously, I worked extensively on Optimal Transport (OT) theory. I am interested in developing neural approaches for efficient optimization, as well as discovering new computational structures in learning systems that inspire better models and algorithms.

Publication

Consistent Optimal Transport for Global Topology Constraints in Assignment and Routing Problem

Junchi Yan, Rui Tao, Duorui Li, Jiale Hong, Liangliang Shi, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos

TPAMI under review

Experiences

◉ 2024/25 Spring
TA for AI2516: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

◉ 2025.2 -- 2025.4
Intern researcher in Shanghai AI Lab

◉ 2023.11 -- 2026.8
Intern researcher in ReThinkLab

◉ 2026.8 -- Now
Intern researcher in ReThinkLab@SIMIS


Course Note

[SJTU] CS3602《自然语言处理》
Note | Homework

[SJTU] AI2615《算法设计与分析》
Note | Homework

[UCB] CS61A《程序构造原理》
Code

Project

Exploration in SLU:
We explored several improvements in Chinese Semantic-Slot-Filling task from data and model perspectives.

Noodle Scholar:
Neat scholar search engine for 2,000,000+ selected papers on Arxiv. Support table parsing, picture extraction, LLM summary, Latex render and statistical analysis.

Infection Model:
Parameter-free agent-based modeling for infectious propagation. We simulated a school-building environment to study the spread of infectious viruses under different behaviors of the crowd.

Snake Adventure:
An advanced greedy-snake developed by Qt. Compared to traditional greedy-snake, it has added large amount of objects and adventure plots. Complex maps and missions have been designed based on the plot.


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