Academic Employment
University of Florida, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Gainesville FL, Aug 2025 - present
Department of Computer & Information Science and Engineering
Natural Language Processing Research
Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research
Research Focus: Large Language Models, Large Multimodal Models, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Research Experience
Texas A&M University, Research Assistant, College Station TX, Sep 2020 - June 2025
Natural Language Processing Lab, Advisor: Prof. Ruihong Huang
Topic: Knowledge-aware Language Modeling, Knowledge Extraction, Knowledge-based Reasoning
New York University, Research Assistant, New York NY, Sep 2019 - June 2020
Multi-Media Lab, Advisor: Prof. Yong Liu, Prof. Houwei Cao
Topic: Multi-Modality Representation Learning, Audio-Visual Content Understanding
Industry Experience
Google DeepMind, Research Intern, Mountain View CA, June 2024 - Sep 2024
Large Language Models Research, Gemini Team, Mentor: Fei Liu, Hongyuan Mei, Chinmay Kulkarni
Topic: Large Language Models Reasoning and Planning