Welcome. I am a final year Ph.D. student at University of California, San Diego advised by Prof. Jingbo Shang. Before that, I received my B.S. in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. You can find my CV here.

Research Interests

My research experience spans several areas of natural language processing, including reasoning, information extraction, retrieval, discovery, language modeling, and its safety. My primary interest lies in developing data-efficient solutions for language-related tasks. Additionally, I am interested in the application of machine learning across other scientific fields.

You can find my publications here.

Work Experience

• Amazon, Nile Foundations, 2024.6 - Present
  • Research Intern
  • Working on compressing texts.
• Google, CoreML, 2023.6 - 2023.12
  • Research Intern
  • Working on improving large language model’s (mathematical/programming) reasoning abilities through process supervision.
• Microsoft Research, 2022.6 - 2022.9
  • Research Intern
  • Working on efficient fine-tuning of large language models through mixture-of-experts.
• Adobe, 2021.6 - 2021.9
  • Research Intern.
  • Working on efficient long range transformer architectures.
• University of Pennsylvania, 2019.5 - 2019.8
  • Research Assistant.
  • Working on low-resource, cross-lingual named entity recognition.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018.12 - 2019.5
  • Research Assistant.
  • Working on tectcubes, topic extraction, and representation learning.

Selected Awards

• Bronze Medal, ICPC World Finals @ Moscow (2021)
  • 2nd in North America, 11/118 worldwide
• UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Fellowship (2020-2023)
• UCSD Jacob School of Engineering Fellowship (2020-2021)
• World Champion, IEEE Xtreme 13.0 (2019)
• UIUC Jeffry P. Blahut Memorial Scholarship (2018)

Leadership & Teaching

• Co-Coach (2020-2022) and Coach (2022-2023) for UCSD ICPC club, website here
  • coaching teams and teaching students for algorithmic programming contests.
  • UCSD won 2 times North Ameirca West-Division Championship in 2021 and 2023.

Visits, Collaborations & Questions

• If you are going to visit UCSD, please let me buy you a bubble tea 🧋(or coffee☕)*.
• I am warm-heartedly open to any discussion related to natural language processing and machine learning in general.
• For undergraduate students, I am happy to answer questions about:
  • Grad School or Industry
  • Research in NLP
  • Competitive Programming
• and if you have interest to conduct research in NLP, I am happy to collaborate.

Email is usually the best way to contact me.

*This is a copy-pasta from Liyuan Liu, who introduced me to NLP research. And I do mean it!