Experience

Intern Mentorship:

• Mentorship of Research Interns: (from MIT, CMU, Harvard, Gatech, USC, Oxford, HKU, HKUST, Peking, Tsinghua, etc.)

  • 2024 Summer-Fall, Shengzhong Mao, PhD Student, University of Manchester

  • 2024 Summer, Xiangchi Yuan, MS Student, Brandeis University

  • 2024 Spring-Summer, Hang Li, PhD Student, Michigan State University (MSU), Intern Paper: arXiv'24 (x3)

  • 2024 Spring-Summer, Weichen Yu, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

  • 2024 Spring-Summer, Aoran Wang, PhD Student, University of Luxembourg

  • 2024 Spring-Summer, Yidong Wang, PhD Student, Peking University

  • 2024 Spring-Summer, Yifan Zhang, PhD Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Intern Paper: ICML'24, arXiv'24

  • 2023 Summer, Yingtao Luo, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Intern Paper: ICML'24

  • 2023 Summer, Aoxiao Zhong, PhD Student, Harvard University, Intern Paper: KDD'24

  • 2023 Summer, Shikai Fang, PhD Student, University of Utah, Intern Paper: ICML'24

  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zichuan Liu, MS Student, Nanjing University, Intern Paper: ICLR'24

  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zefan Wang, MS Student, Tsinghua University (Tsinghua), Intern Paper: ICLR'24

  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Dalin Qin, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Intern Paper: TSG'23

  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zhixian Wang, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Intern Paper: arXiv'23

  • 2023 Spring-Summer, Yifan Zhang, PhD Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Intern Paper: NeurIPS'23

  • 2022 Fall, Yiyuan Yang, PhD Student, University of Oxford, Intern Paper: KDD'23

  • 2022 Summer-Fall, Hao Cheng, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Intern Paper: ICLR'24

  • 2022 Spring-Summer, Kexin Zhang, PhD Student, Zhejiang University (ZJU), Intern Paper: ICASSP'24, TPAMI'24

  • 2020 Summer, Qingyang Xu, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Intern Paper: ICASSP'21

  • 2019 Summer, Zhe Zhang, PhD Student, Georgia Institute of Technology (Gatech), Intern Paper: KDD'20

  • 2018 Summer, Zhengzhi Ma, PhD Student, University of Southern California (USC), Intern Paper: ICASSP'20

Work Experience: 

Squirrel Ai Learning Inc., Greater Seattle Area, Oct. 2023 - present

        -Head of AI Research & Chief Scientist

• Responsible for AI for Education (AI4EDU) via AI technologies (like LLM, AI Agent, GenAI, Transformer, SSL, GNN, XAI, AutoML, etc.).

Alibaba Group, DAMO Academy-Machine Intelligence Technologies, Greater Seattle Area, Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2023

        -Sr. Manager & TL

• Responsible for AI for Time Series (AI4TS) in Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, and Energy Industry, via AI technologies (like LLM, Transformer, SSL, GNN, XAI, DGM, AutoML, etc.).

Futurewei Technologies, AI Platform and Services, Silicon Valley, May 2016 – Sep. 2017

        -Staff Engineer (08/2017 ~ 10/2017), Senior Engineer (10/2016 ~ 08/2017), Data Science Intern (05/2016 ~ 08/2016)

• Responsible for Deep Learning R&D in CV, NLP, CTR, and recommendation

• Responsible for Graph Computing and Mining R&D for SDN and Smart City

Qualcomm, QCT Modem Team, Greater San Diego Area, May 2013 – Aug. 2013

        -System Engineering Intern

• Responsible for algorithm R&D of 4G LTE/LTE-A receiver

Marvell, Dept. UTS R&D, Shanghai City, Jun. 2009 – Jul. 2011

        -Architect & DSP Engineer 

• Responsible for algorithm, software, and hardware R&D of 4G LTE Receiver

Education Experience:

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), 2011 – 2016

        -PhD & MS

• • Major ECE (Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, and FPGA/VLSI)

  • Minor CS (Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Computer Systems)