Experience
Intern Mentorship:
Mentorship of Research Interns: (from MIT, CMU, Harvard, Gatech, USC, Oxford, HKU, HKUST, Peking, Tsinghua, etc.)
2024 Summer, Ethan Chang, Columbia University
2024 Summer, Yichi (Christie) Song, Carleton College
2024 Summer, Xiangchi Yuan, Brandeis University
2024 Summer, Qinlin Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
2024 Summer, Kun Wang, PhD Student, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
2024 Summer, Wei Wei, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU)
2024 Summer, Yibo Yan, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
2024 Summer, Shengzhong Mao, PhD Student, University of Manchester
2024 Spring, Aoran Wang, PhD Student, University of Luxembourg
2024 Spring, Weichen Yu, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
2024 Spring, Yidong Wang, PhD Student, Peking University
2024 Spring, Hang Li, PhD Student, Michigan State University (MSU), Intern Paper: arXiv'24 (x3)
2024 Spring, 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, Nanjing University, Intern Paper: ICLR'24
2023 Summer-Fall, Zefan Wang, 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
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.).
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)