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I am a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Currently, I mainly work on diffusion models and their applications for solving inverse problems, as well as the theoretical aspects of large language models. Previously, I was a postdoc with Prof. Jonathan Scarlett at the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS). I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mathematics at NUS in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Weizhu Bao and Prof. Vincent Yan Fu Tan. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Tsinghua University in 2013.

Always looking for self-motivated Ph.D./master students with strong mathematical/computer-science background. 

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(Feb. 2026) Papers Just-in-Time: Training-Free Spatial Acceleration for Diffusion Transformers and Outlier-Robust Diffusion Solvers for Inverse Problems accepted to CVPR 2026 [Paper1]

(Jan. 2026) Six papers accepted to ICASSP 2026

(Nov. 2025) Paper Diffusion Model Based Signal Recovery Under 1-Bit Quantization accepted to AAAI 2026 [Paper]

(Sep. 2025) Paper Learnable Sampler Distillation for Discrete Diffusion Models accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight Presentation) [Paper]

(May 2025) Papers Integrating Intermediate Layer Optimization and Projected Gradient Descent for Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models and Learning Single Index Models with Diffusion Priors accepted to ICML 2025 [Paper1] [Paper2]

(Jan. 2025) Paper AlgoFormer: An Efficient Transformer Framework with Algorithmic Structures accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research [Paper]

(Jan. 2025) Paper Solving Quadratic Systems With Full-Rank Matrices Using Sparse or Generative Priors accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing [Paper]

(Sep. 2024) Paper Generalized Eigenvalue Problems with Generative Priors accepted to NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

(Feb. 2024) Paper Accelerating Diffusion Sampling with Optimized Time Steps accepted to CVPR 2024 [Paper]

(Jan. 2024) I have joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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