Davin CHOO Xian Jun

Assistant Professor


Davin is a postdoctoral fellow at Teamcore in Harvard University, and an incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor at School of Computing in National University of Singapore (NUS). His research focuses on theory and AI for real-world optimisation, and he has a technical background in foundational areas of AI/ML, including statistical learning, causal inference, and the design of resource-efficient algorithms. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the NUS as an AISG PhD fellow, a Master's degree in Computer Science from ETH Zürich, and two undergraduate degrees in Computer Science (First Class Honours) and Applied Mathematics (First Class Honours) from NUS. Between his undergraduate and Masters, he also worked for a while as an applied research scientist at DSO National Laboratories on projects that lie in the intersection of AI and security.

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  • Learning-augmented algorithms

  • Causality

  • Statistical inference

  • Online decision-making

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