Professor Qian, Jian
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor
Email: jianqian@hku.hk
Professor Qian, Jian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of AI and Data Science at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a Courant Instructor and CDS Fellow at New York University. he received his Ph.D. from the Department of EECS at MIT, where he had the great pleasure of being advised by Sasha Rakhlin. Before MIT, he earned a diplôme in Mathematics and Computer Science from École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Research Interests
- Statistical learning theory
- Bandits and reinforcement learning
- Online learning
Selected Publications
- Refined Risk Bounds for Unbounded Losses via Transductive Priors
Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin, Nikita Zhivotovskiy
[paper] - The Statistical Complexity of Interactive Decision Making
Dylan J Foster, Sham Kakade, Jian Qian, Alexander Rakhlin
[paper] - To bootstrap or to rollout? An optimal and adaptive interpolation
Wenlong Mou, Jian Qian
[paper] - Convex and Non-Convex Optimization under Generalized Smoothness
Haochuan Li, Jian Qian, Yi Tian, Alexander Rakhlin, Ali Jadbabaie
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Teaching
- Fall 2025 (at NYU): UA-MATH 334 - Mathematical Statistics