About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Data Science Program (Computer Science Department) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) , advised by Prof. Xiangnan Kong. I also work closely with Prof. Lifang He. I have interned at Google Research and Amazon AI. 

Research

I am broadly interested in machine learning, data mining and artificial intelligence. My research and experience cover a wide range of topics and applications, from computer vision and natural language processing to speech processing, with a focus on generative models and large language models. To be more specific:

• Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning, Generative AI (GenAI)

• Multimodal Machine Learning: Vision, Language, Audio

• Computer Vision: Image Registration, Image Segmentation, Image Classification, Image Generation

• Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models (LLMs), Efficient Decoding, Prompt Optimization

• Speech Processing: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Streaming/Real-time Processing, AudioLLMs

News

• [2024.12] [Ph.D.] Graduated with a Ph.D. degree.🎓

• [2024.12] [Award] Received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at WPI.

• [2024.12] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for ICML 2025 and IJCAI 2025.

• [2024.11] [Ph.D.] Passed Ph.D. Dissertation Defense.

• [2024.11] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for CVPR 2025 and AISTATS 2025.

• [2024.10] [Paper] One paper was accepted by IEEE BigData 2024 (Research paper).

• [2024.09] [Award] Received NSF Accelerate Grant as PI to support my PhD dissertation research.

• [2024.08] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for KDD 2025, ICLR 2025 and ICASSP 2025.

• [2024.05] [Intern] Joined Google Research as a Research Scientist Intern for LLMs research.

• [2024.05] [Paper] One paper was accepted by SIGMOD 2025 (Research paper). 

• [2024.04] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for NeurIPS 2024, ECCV 2024 and CIKM 2024.

• [2024.03] [Award] Received NSF Travel Award for participation in SDM 2024 Doctoral Forum.

• [2024.03] [Ph.D.] Passed Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal.

• [2024.01] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for KDD 2024, IJCAI 2024 and CHIL 2024.

• [2023.11] [Award] Received Student Travel Award at IEEE BigData 2023.

• [2023.10] [Paper] One paper was accepted by IEEE BigData 2023 (Regular paper).

• [2023.09] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for CVPR 2024 and SDM 2024.

• [2023.07] [Award] Received Student Travel Award at KDD 2023.

• [2023.05] [Paper] One first-author paper was accepted by KDD 2023 (Research Track).

• [2023.05] [Intern] Joined Amazon AI as an Applied Scientist Intern for LLMs research.

• [2023.04] [Award] Won third place in the GRIE competition at WPI.

• [2023.02] [TPC] Invited to serve as PC member for CHIL 2023 and KDD 2023.

• [2022.10] [Award] Received NSF Student Travel Award at ICDM 2022.

• [2022.08] [Paper] One first-author paper was accepted by ICDM 2022 (Full Paper).

• [2022.06] [Intern] Joined Amazon AI as an Applied Scientist Intern for LLMs research.

• [2022.06] [Award] Received Student Registration Award at KDD 2022.

• [2022.05] [Paper] One first-author paper was accepted by KDD 2022 (Research Track).

• [2022.03] [Ph.D.] Passed Ph.D. Research Qualifier Exam.

• [2021.08] [Ph.D.] Started Ph.D. studies.

Awards

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, WPI, 2024

• NSF Accelerate ACCESS Grant (PI), NSF, 2024

• NSF Doctoral Forum Travel Award, SDM, 2024

• Student Travel Award, IEEE BigData, 2023

• Data Science Travel Award, WPI, 2023

• Student Travel Award, KDD, 2023

• Third place in the GRIE competition, WPI, 2023

• NSF Student Travel Award, ICDM, 2022

• Graduate Student Travel Award, WPI, 2022

• A&S Graduate Student Conference Attendance Award, WPI, 2022, 2023

• Student Registration Award, KDD, 2022

• Maintaining Academic Excellence Award, WPI, 2020

Academic Service

Conference Session Chair

• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2022

- Learning and Fusion Session

Journal Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2021, 2022, 2023

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2023

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 2024

• Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 2023

Conference Program Committee

• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

• The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

• The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

• ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2023, 2024, 2025

• The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, 2025

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024, 2025

• The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024

• ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024

• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025

• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2024

• The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025

• The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2023

• The Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), 2023, 2024

Volunteer

• ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2022, 2023

• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2022