Xiangyu (Shawn) Sun

I am a PhD student at Simon Fraser University. My research interests include causality, explainability and reinforcement learning.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
Simon Fraser University, 2019-2024
Under the supervision of Professor Oliver Schulte
Bachelor of Science, Software Systems
Simon Fraser University, 2012-2015

Publications

Cause-Effect Inference in Location-Scale Noise Models: Maximum Likelihood vs. Independence Testing
Xiangyu Sun, Oliver Schulte
NeurIPS 2023
NTS-NOTEARS: Learning Nonparametric DBNs With Prior Knowledge
Xiangyu Sun, Oliver Schulte, Guiliang Liu, Pascal Poupart
AISTATS 2023
Learning Tree Interpretation from Object Representation for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Guiliang Liu, Xiangyu Sun, Oliver Schulte, Pascal Poupart
NeurIPS 2021
Cracking the Black Box: Distilling Deep Sports Analytics
Xiangyu Sun, Jack Davis, Oliver Schulte, Guiliang Liu
KDD 2020