Experience

Work Experience: 

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

• Chief Scientist

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

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

• Engineering Leader

• 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.).

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)

• PhD & MS

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

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

Intern Mentorship:

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

  • 2026 Fall, Zhenhong Zhou, PhD student, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

  • 2026 Fall, Zherui Li, PhD student, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

  • 2026 Fall, Miao Yu, PhD student, University of Hong Kong (HKU)

  • 2026 Fall, Hao Wu, PhD student, Tsinghua University

  • 2026 Summer, Wanyong Feng, PhD student, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass Amherst)

  • 2026 Summer, Jianheng Zhou, PhD student, National University of Singapore (NUS), Intern Paper: EMNLP'26

  • 2026 Summer, Wentao Hu, PhD Student, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Intern Paper: EMNLP'26

  • 2026 Spring, Xiaolong Wang, PhD Student, East China Normal University, Intern Paper: KDD'26

  • 2025 Fall, Yiming Zhang, PhD Student, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Intern Paper: EMNLP'26

  • 2025 Summer, Yudi Xie, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Intern Paper: arXiv

  • 2025 Summer, Rong Zhou, PhD Student, Lehigh University, Intern Paper: arXiv

  • 2024 Fall, Xinfeng Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, Intern Paper: KDD'26, CVPR'26

  • 2024 Fall, Dingjie Song, Nanjing University, Intern Paper: AIED'26

  • 2024 Fall, Jingheng Ye, Tsinghua University, Intern Paper: EMNLP'25, ACL'26

  • 2024 Fall, Jian Xie, Fudan University, Intern Paper: EMNLP'25, ACL'26

  • 2024 Summer, Kun Wang, PhD Student, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Intern Paper: AAAI'26, ICLR'26, ICML'26

  • 2024 Summer, Yibo Yan, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Intern Paper: ACL'25, ACL'26

  • 2024 Summer, Shengzhong Mao, PhD Student, University of Manchester, Intern Paper: arXiv

  • 2024 Spring, Aoran Wang, PhD Student, University of Luxembourg, Intern Paper: JSTSP'26

  • 2024 Spring, Hang Li, PhD Student, Michigan State University (MSU), Intern Paper: ACL'25, AAAI'25, SPM'25

  • 2024 Spring, Yifan Zhang, PhD Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Intern Paper: NeurIPS'24, MM'25, ICLR'25

  • 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, Nanjing University, Intern Paper: ICLR'24

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

  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zhixian Wang, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Intern Paper: TPWRS'24

  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Dalin Qin, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Intern Paper: TSG'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, CSUR'26

  • 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