Jul. 2025: Awarded the Graduate Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship
Mar. 2025: Selected for the ML and Systems Rising Star Awards 2025
Dec. 2024: Recipient of the NVIDIA Fellowship
Feb. 2024: Finalist for the 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (with Yeonju Ro)
Published multiple papers at top-tier conferences including ICML, CVPR, ICLR, and NeurIPS, covering topics such as MoE, 3D Gaussian Splatting, SSMs, and efficient LLM deployment
Background
Fourth-year Ph.D. student in the VITA Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Advised by Prof. Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang
Research interests include:
- Efficient training and inference for large foundation models: Adaptive frameworks, elastic model deployment, Mixture of Experts (MoE)
- Long context generation: Long context training & serving, State Space Models (SSM)
- AI security and privacy: Trustworthy ML, robustness for MoE, backdoor attacks
- Distributed training, task heterogeneity, data scaling