Xin Dong
Scholar

Xin Dong

Google Scholar ID: O8nBN64AAAAJ
Research Scientist & Tech Lead, NVIDIA Research; Harvard University
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,262
 
H-index
20
 
i10-index
26
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Released a new series of NVIDIA Nemotron models, aiming to contribute to the journey of building the next-generation architecture
  • - Significantly scaled up the compute (3k steps) and data (5 distinct domains) for RL, setting a new scaling record for open-source RL training
  • - Released CLIMB, a robust LLM pre- and post-training dataset building method
  • - Released the first intra-layer (head-wise fusion) hybrid model, Hymba-1.5B, accepted by ICLR 2025 as a spotlight
  • - Additive Power-of-Two Quantization (ICLR'20) is now supported in official PyTorch
Research Experience
  • - Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research, 2024 - Present
  • - Research Scientist at Sony, 2023 - 2024
  • - Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Lab, 2021, 2022
  • - Research Scientist Intern at NVIDIA, 2020
  • - Research Scientist Intern at Tencent America, 2019
Education
  • - Degree: Ph.D.
  • - School: Harvard University
  • - Advisor: H.T. Kung
  • - Time: 2023
  • - Major: Computer Science
  • - Honor: Recipient of the Harvard James Mills Peirce Fellowship
Background
  • - Research Interests: Training of intelligent and efficient foundation models
  • - Field: Computer Science
  • - Brief Introduction: A research scientist at NVIDIA Research, leading the training of intelligent and efficient foundation models.
Miscellany
  • - Personal Interests: Not mentioned