- Co-supervised 11 PhD students, 20 master’s students, 3 research engineers, and 7 interns
- Published 89 research papers, including 10 book chapters, 46 peer-reviewed journal and magazine papers, and 33 conference proceeding papers
- Served as associate editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, and IEEE Multimedia Magazine
Research Experience
- Principal researcher at Huawei Technologies Canada, leading efforts to integrate AI methodologies across diverse fields to enhance product delivery, including inference optimization for large language models (LLMs), LLM-based code infilling and software vulnerability detection
- Formerly a principal engineer at Huawei Technologies Canada, leading teams dedicated to perception and planning in autonomous driving as well as developing multi-agent reinforcement learning-based metaverse streaming solutions
- Postdoctoral fellow at New York University, helping establish a research lab at NYU Abu Dhabi
- As a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, focused on robotics, particularly the development of field robots for health-care applications
Education
- PhD, Kobe University (2010)
- M.Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2008)
- Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa from 2013 to 2016
- Research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2011 to 2012, including four months as a research associate at the University of Toronto
Background
Research interests include the fusion of artificial intelligence and multimedia, perception and planning in autonomous driving, and multi-agent reinforcement learning. Currently an adjunct professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, and a principal researcher for Huawei Technologies Canada.