Recruiting
Recruiting Ph.D. students and (remote) Research Interns. I’m actively looking for students at all levels interested in large language models’ related research. If you are interested, please feel free to email me.
Development Roadmap
Student Track | Starting Point | Stage 1 (3-6 months) | Stage 2 (3-6 months) | Stage 3 (3-6 months) | Final Outcome |
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Research Interns | Zero AI background student | First AI Top Conference submission | First AI Top Conference Publication | PhD or Industry Researcher Offer | Career Launch |
Student Track | Starting Point | Stage 1 (6-12 months) | Stage 2 (12-36 months) | Stage 3 (6-12 months) | Final Outcome |
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PhD Students | Junior Researcher | First Publication and Industry Intern | Sufficient AI Publications | Graduation with Academic or Industry Researcher Offer | Career Success |
🎯 100% Research Resource Coverage Guarantee
All students across all tracks receive full access to computational resources and AI model APIs
Student Track | Independent & Sufficient GPU Resources (A100, H100, H200, A6000) | OpenAI LLM APIs Credits | Fast APIs for Many Other (Multimodal) LLMs (Deepseek, Claude, Llama, Qwen) | Weekly One-to-One Meeting | Real-time Responses on Wechat |
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Research Interns | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
PhD Students | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Research Focus
My research focuses on large foundation models based trustworthy natural language processing and its applications as AI assistants. Our research considers not only textual but also vision data, with the target of understanding ubiquitos multi-modal data in real-world applications.
Selected Publications [ Google Scholar] [ DBLP]
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Teaching
- Instructor, Large Language Models at University of California, Merced, 2025
- Teaching Assistant, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining at National University of Singapore, 2020 and 2021
- Teaching Assistant, Big Data Systems for Data Science at National University of Singapore, 2021
- Teaching Assistant, Programming Methodology at National University of Singapore, 2021
- Teaching Assistant, Parallel Computing at National University of Singapore, 2020
- Teaching Assistant, Signal Processing and Communications at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2018
Services
(Senior) Area Chair
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2025
- Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ACL ARR) 2025
- Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2025
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2025
- International Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN) 2025
Reviewer
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023, 2024
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023, 2024
- Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2024
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024
- Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG) 2022, 2023, 2024
- The Web Conference (WWW) 2023, 2024
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022, 2023, 2024
- The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022, 2023, 2024
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2022, 2023, 2024
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2022
- European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-PKDD) 2020
- International Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN) 2022
- The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- IET Image Processing (IET)
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)
- Computer Science Review (CSR)
- Cybernetics and Systems (C&S)
- Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC)
- Neurocomputing (Neurocomputing)
- Pattern Recognition (PR)
Contact
Address: 5200 Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95343
Office Location: Science & Engineering 2, Office 205