Hao Wang
Assistant Professor at LIACS
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Wang is an assistant professor of computer science at Leiden University with a Ph.D. (cum laude) and eight years of research experience spanning Bayesian optimization, multi-objective and evolutionary computation, and variational quantum algorithms. He progressed from PhD work on real-time, data-driven process control to postdoctoral research at LIP6 (Sorbonne) and now leads research and teaching at LIACS. Hao also co-founded a data science startup where he served as chief scientist, blending academic rigor with practical product and industrial experience. His work is notable for combining algorithm design with systematic benchmarking and algorithm selection, bringing principled optimization methods toward real-world, multi-criteria problems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Leiden UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
multi-objective-optimization10
bayesian10
integer10
iterative10
heuristics10
optimization10
optimization-methods9
analyzer9
optimizer9
multiple-users9
machine-learning8
procedure8
mixed-integer-programming8
documentation7
parallel7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wangronin/Bayesian-Optimization
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Bayesian Optimization algorithms with various recent improvements
Contributions:29 releases, 9 reviews, 440 commits in 4 years 5 months
optimization-algorithmsoptimizationmultiobjective-optimizationmachine-learningmulti-objective-optimization
IOHprofiler/IOHanalyzer-docker
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Configuration files required to deploy IOHanalyzer for multiple users
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
configuration-filesmultiple-users
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