Personal Website Content Checklist

This checklist is author input only. No claim below should be published until the corresponding fact, contribution, result, or permission is confirmed.

The first public-ready draft uses only information verified from the existing research files. Provide the items below before the final application version is published.

Identity and contact

• Preferred English name and exact Chinese name (confirmed: Tongren Xiao / 肖童仁)
• Professional email address to display publicly (confirmed)
• Expected graduation month and year (confirmed: September 2027)
• Current city (confirmed: Guangzhou, China)
• Professional headshot (confirmed and prepared for the website)

Academic profiles

• Google Scholar profile URL
• ORCID URL
• Optional LinkedIn URL

Education

• Exact degree title
• Expected graduation date
• Major ranking or percentile, if favorable
• Selected advanced courses and grades, if useful
• Scholarships, honors, competitions, or academic awards

Publications and manuscripts

For every item that should appear publicly:

• Exact English title
• Complete author list in publication order
• Your author position and contribution
• Status: published, accepted, under review, preprint, manuscript, or work in progress
• Venue and year, when applicable
• DOI, arXiv, SSRN, PDF, and code links, when public
• A two- or three-sentence plain-language summary

Supporting research materials

• Selected slide decks suitable for public viewing
• Technical reports that add context beyond a paper
• One definitive PDF per item; superseded drafts should remain private
• Confirmation that collaborators and supervisors permit public distribution

The option-pricing transcript is used for CV information only and should remain private unless an application specifically requires the document.

Research experience

• Supervisor names and affiliations (confirmed: Changzheng Li and Yirong Huang, Sun Yat-sen University)
• Project dates
• Your concrete contribution to each project
• Methods used and results obtained
• Public code, data, posters, or slides

Skills

• Programming languages and realistic proficiency
• Mathematical and statistical software
• Machine learning libraries
• English test scores, when available

CV

• Final English CV as a PDF named Tongren_Xiao_CV.pdf

GitHub profile and project pages

• One-sentence profile objective.
• For volatility-world-model: your role, collaborators, confirmed metrics, experiment status, and data provenance statement.
• For srm-forecasting-agent: your role, current deployment status, and which components are prototypes versus validated research results.
• Whether the Headline Arena dry-run adapter should remain local-only (default) or whether you want to authorize a separately reviewed live connector later.
• Which repositories should be featured, archived, or kept private.

RA application narrative

• Why this lab specifically.
• Two or three concrete research questions you want to pursue.
• What you can contribute immediately (coding, modeling, evaluation, theory, systems, or experiment design).
• Availability, start date, remote/in-person preference, and desired duration.