Selected Publications: 'Enhancing Temporal Modeling of Video LLMs via Time Gating' (EMNLP 2024 Findings); 'Beyond Embeddings: The Promise of Visual Table in Visual Reasoning' (EMNLP 2024 Main); 'CLEVA: Chinese Language Models EVAluation Platform' (EMNLP 2023 System Demonstration); 'VL-PET: Vision-and-Language Parameter-Efficient Tuning via Granularity Control' (ICCV 2023); Awards: 1st place, Language and Intelligence Challenge (LIC), 2022; Outstanding Graduate Thesis, SYSU, 2022; Academic Innovation Scholarship (Top 2%), SYSU, 2021; Academic Competition Scholarship (Top 2%), SYSU, 2021; National Scholarship (Top 2%), Ministry of Education of China, 2020; The First Prize Scholarship (Top 5%), SYSU, 2020; National Scholarship (Top 2%), Ministry of Education of China, 2019; The First Prize Scholarship (Top 5%), SYSU, 2019
Research Experience
Teaching Assistant for AIST 1000 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, CUHK, Fall 2024; Teaching Assistant for CSCI 3320 Fundamentals of Machine Learning, CUHK, Spring 2024; Teaching Assistant for AIST 1000 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, CUHK, Fall 2023; Teaching Assistant for CSCI 3320 Fundamentals of Machine Learning, CUHK, Spring 2023
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Aug. 2022 -- Present; B.Eng. in Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Sep. 2018 –- Jun. 2022
Background
Research Interests: Multimodal Learning, especially Vision-and-Language Learning; Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially Parameter-Efficient Tuning
Miscellany
Personal Website: https://skylerhallinan.com/; Supervisors: Prof. Liwei Wang (Asst. Prof.) and Prof. Michael R. Lyu (Prof., IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, HKAES Fellow)