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 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 machine learning and natural language processing. Currently, I am passionate about long-horizon reasoning and planning of large language models.

Teaching

[2024 Spring] Machine Learning [COMP 5212]
[2024 Fall] Machine Learning [COMP 5212]

Service

Area Chair: ICLR, EMNLP, ACL, ARR
Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ARR, TMLR

Awards

Baidu PhD Fellowship, class of 2020 (10 recipients worldwide)
National Scholarship in China (2014/2015/2016)