Hello! I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information, University of Michigan, advised by Prof. VG Vinod Vydiswaran. I also worked with Prof. Qiaozhu Mei between 2015-2020, and Prof. Daniel M. Romero between 2018-2020. 

I am actively searching for research positions in industry, as well as postdoctoral and faculty positions in academia. If you are aware of any openings, I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know. Thank you! 

I primarily working on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. My recent research focuses on below topics: 

1. Self-Supervised Representation Learning (contrastive learning). 
2. Historical Language Change (such as semantic shift). 
3. Robustness of ML models (backdoor attack and defense of LLMs). 
4. Diffusion Models for Non-Autoregressive Generation. 
5. Knowledge Distillation (from advanced black-box LLM to small models).

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Pronouns

he/his/him

Areas of interest

Text Representation Learning, Generative AI

Honors & Awards

EMNLP Student Travel Grant, 2023. 
SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2018.

Education

Honored bachelor degree in Computer Science from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University in 2017