Research Assistant, Samsung Research America, Apr. 2025 - Apr. 2026
Research collaboration between McGill University and Samsung Research America, with a particular focus on leveraging large language models (LLMs) as the foundation to design next-generation agentic communication systems.
Machine Learning Intern, Ericsson Canada, Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2024
Research on distributed machine learning and knowledge distillation frameworks to enable collaborative model training across heterogeneous edge devices, improving scalability, efficiency, and privacy preservation in communication systems.
Research Intern, Samsung Research America, Nov. 2020 - May 2023
Research on advanced AI techniques for large-scale KPI and time-series system modeling, leveraging reinforcement learning, continual learning, and feature engineering to adapt to dynamically evolving data distributions and system variability.
Tutorial on "Generative Foundation Models (GFMs) for NextG Communication Networks: Fundamentals, Key Techniques, and Future Directions," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, Jun. 8, 2025.
Invited talk on "Large Language Models (LLMs) for NextG Wireless Networks," IEEE Future Networks Seminar, Sep. 5, 2024.
Invited talk on "Teacher-Student Architecture of Knowledge Distillation," Unify AI, online, Mar. 8, 2024.
Invited talk on "Adaptive Feature Boosting for Smart Grid Intrusion Detection," McGill CS Systems Seminar, online, Feb. 3, 2022.
Invited talk on "Improving Communication Load Forecasting Accuracy with Adaptive Feature Boosting," Montreal AI Symposium (MAIS), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 20, 2021.
Gold reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026.
GREAT Award, McGill University, 2023
Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, 2019-2023
Merit Scholarship, Concordia University, 2017-2019
Outstanding Student Award (1st class), Northwest University, 2017
Meritorious Winner (top 8%), Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM Contest), 2016
Merit Scholarship (top 1%), Northwest University, 2015-2017
Zhongjiao Tongli Scholarship (top 1%), Northwest University, 2015
Student Mentor, MITACS Globalink Research Internship, Concordia University, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2019.
Teaching Assistant, COMP535 Computer Networks, McGill University, 2020 Winter, 2023 Winter.
Teaching Assistant, SOEN390 Software Engineering Team Design Project, Concordia University, 2019 Winter.
Teaching Assistant, SOEN6841 Software Project Management, Concordia University, 2018 Fall.
Workshop Organizer, IEEE SmartGridComm Workshop on ``Agentic Energy Systems in Smart Grids: Theories, Technologies, and Applications,'' College Station, TX, USA, Oct. 2026.
Session Chair, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, Canada, Jul. 2026.
Contributor, IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in "Generative Foundation Models for NextG Communication Networks," Dec. 2025.
Technical program committee member: IEEE EPEC 2026, IEEE SmartGridComm 2026, IEEE HDIS 2022-2023.
Technical reviewer (selected): ICML 2026, ACM e-Energy 2023-2026, IEEE TMC 2025, ICLR 2025, ACM TCPS 2021-2025, ACM KDD 2024, ACM/IEEE ICCPS 2021-2024, IEEE TNSE 2023, IEEE IoT-J 2023.