I am a tenure-track assistant professor in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I obtained my PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science in 2022, where I was co-advised by Graham Neubig and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. Before that, I received the bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017. I also spent some time at Facebook AI Research (2019) and Salesforce Research (2020).
Prospective Students:
I am always actively looking for strong and self-motivated students to join us! Current PhD applications are for 2025 Fall, I encourage you to reach out early to ensure consideration. I also have several research assistant positions opening starting anytime. Please drop me an email if you are interested.
Research
I am generally interested in natural language processing and machine learning. Current interests are on several aspects around large language models (with the corresponding recent papers):
- complex reasoning (Guided Decoding)
- data-centric approaches (Deita)
- evaluation of foundation models (CEval, Compression)
- LLM agents (AgentBoard)
- parameter-efficient tuning – efficiency, modular, composition (Unify PEFT, Compose PEFT)
- factuality – method and evaluation (FELM, Calibration)
Teaching
[2024 Spring] Machine Learning [COMP 5212]
Service
Area Chair: EMNLP22, ACL23, EMNLP23
Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ARR, TMLR
Awards
Baidu PhD Fellowship, class of 2020 (10 recipients worldwide)
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis in SJTU (top 1%)
National Scholarship in China (2014/2015/2016)