Papers accepted by several important conferences such as ICASSP, ICIP, IJCNN-WCCI, DATE, ICCAD, EMNLP, etc. One paper, 'TinyADC,' was nominated for Best Paper at DATE 2021. Also received Predoctoral Fellowships and the Cigna Graduate Fellowship from UConn CSE.
Research Experience
Interned at Baidu USA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Guest Lecturer for UCONN Graduate Course CSE 5825 Bayesian Machine Learning. Served as a reviewer for multiple international conferences including SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM24), IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
Education
Received B.Sc. from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and B.A. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2016; M.S. from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas) in 2018; Ph.D. from the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut (UCONN), advised by Professor Derek Aguiar in the EL GATO Lab.
Background
Currently a Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft AI. Research interests include Agentic AI/RAG (e.g., AutoGen, Magnetic-One), Spatial Intelligence (e.g., Scene Graph), Efficient AI (e.g., Knowledge Distillation, Weight Pruning, Quantization), and MLLM (e.g., GPT, CLIP, Diffusion Model).
Miscellany
Personal motto: 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.