Austen Z. Fan is a Ph.D. dissertator at Department of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is extremely fortunate to be co-advised by Professor Jin-Yi Cai and Professor Paraschos Koutris. His research falls within Theoretical Computer Science. He is joining Jump Trading as a Quantitative Researcher in summer 2026.
He obtained M.S. in Computer Sciences and M.A. in Mathematics (Foundations for Research) in 2023 from Madison. Before that, he obtained B.S. in Computer Sciences and B.S. in Mathematics, both with Honor-in-the-Major, in 2021 from Madison. He started his undergraduate at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2016.
He founded the Bridge Club (UW-Madison).
His hobbies include badminton, poker, and hiking (backpacking).