Multiple papers accepted at top international conferences such as CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICCV; Served as Technical Chair or Area Chair for various international conferences; Selected as 2025 PyTorch Ambassador; Developed open-source projects torchdistill and sc2bench.
Research Experience
Current Research Scientist at Yahoo! and an ML OSS developer; Former Founding Research Engineer at Spiffy AI.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine (Advisors: Marco Levorato, Stephan Mandt, Sameer Singh); Master's degree from University of Hyogo; Bachelor's degree from National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan.
Background
Research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, information retrieval, and ML for science. Special focus on knowledge distillation and supervised compression.