Work Experience

Squirrel Ai Learning Inc., Greater Seattle Area, Oct. 2023 - present

  • Head of AI & Chief Scientist
  • Responsible for AI for Education (AI4EDU) via AI technologies (like LLM, AI Agent, GenAI, Transformer, SSL, GNN, XAI, AutoML, etc.).

Alibaba Group, DAMO Academy-Machine Intelligence Technologies, Greater Seattle Area, Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2023

  • Engineering Leader
  • Responsible for AI for Time Series (AI4TS) in Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, and Energy Industry, via AI technologies (like LLM, Transformer, SSL, GNN, XAI, DGM, AutoML, etc.).

Futurewei Technologies, AI Platform and Services, Silicon Valley, May 2016 – Sep. 2017

  • Staff Engineer (08/2017 ~ 10/2017), Senior Engineer (10/2016 ~ 08/2017), Data Science Intern (05/2016 ~ 08/2016)
  • Responsible for Deep Learning R&D in CV, NLP, CTR, and recommendation
  • Responsible for Graph Computing and Mining R&D for SDN and Smart City

Qualcomm, QCT Modem Team, Greater San Diego Area, May 2013 – Aug. 2013

  • System Engineering Intern
  • Responsible for algorithm R&D of 4G LTE/LTE-A receiver

Marvell, Dept. UTS R&D, Shanghai City, Jun. 2009 – Jul. 2011

  • Architect & DSP Engineer
  • Responsible for algorithm, software, and hardware R&D of 4G LTE Receiver

Education Experience

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), 2011 – 2016

  • PhD & MS
  • Major ECE (Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, and FPGA/VLSI)
  • Minor CS (Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Computer Systems)

Intern Mentorship

Mentorship of Research Interns: (from MIT, CMU, Harvard, Gatech, USC, Oxford, HKU, HKUST, Peking, Tsinghua, etc.)

  • 2025 Summer, Yining Hua, PhD Student, Harvard University (Harvard)
  • 2025 Summer, Kexin Chen, PhD Student, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
  • 2025 Summer, Yudi Xie, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • 2025 Summer, Rong Zhou, PhD Student, Lehigh University
  • 2025 Summer, Shentong Mo, PhD Student, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
  • 2025 Spring, Bizhe Bai, PhD Student, Fudan University
  • 2024 Fall, Xinfeng Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University
  • 2024 Fall, Zhe Zhao, PhD Student, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  • 2024 Fall, Jian Wu, PhD Student, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • 2024 Fall, Dingjie Song, Nanjing University
  • 2024 Fall, Tinghui Zhu, Fudan University
  • 2024 Fall, Jingheng Ye, Tsinghua University
  • 2024 Fall, Jian Xie, Fudan University
  • 2024 Summer, Ethan Chang, Columbia University
  • 2024 Summer, Yichi (Christie) Song, Carleton College
  • 2024 Summer, Qinlin Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  • 2024 Summer, Kun Wang, PhD Student, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  • 2024 Summer, Wei Wei, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU)
  • 2024 Summer, Yibo Yan, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
  • 2024 Summer, Shengzhong Mao, PhD Student, University of Manchester
  • 2024 Spring, Aoran Wang, PhD Student, University of Luxembourg
  • 2024 Spring, Yidong Wang, PhD Student, Peking University
  • 2024 Spring, Hang Li, PhD Student, Michigan State University (MSU), Intern Paper: arXiv'24 (x3)
  • 2024 Spring, Yifan Zhang, PhD Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Intern Paper: NeurIPS'24
  • 2023 Summer, Yingtao Luo, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Intern Paper: ICML'24
  • 2023 Summer, Aoxiao Zhong, PhD Student, Harvard University, Intern Paper: KDD'24
  • 2023 Summer, Shikai Fang, PhD Student, University of Utah, Intern Paper: ICML'24
  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zichuan Liu, Nanjing University, Intern Paper: ICLR'24, CIKM'24
  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zefan Wang, Tsinghua University (Tsinghua), Intern Paper: CIKM'24, ICLR'24
  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Zhixian Wang, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Intern Paper: TPWRS'24
  • 2023 Summer-Fall, Dalin Qin, PhD Student, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Intern Paper: TSG'23
  • 2023 Spring-Summer, Yifan Zhang, PhD Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Intern Paper: NeurIPS'23
  • 2022 Fall, Yiyuan Yang, PhD Student, University of Oxford, Intern Paper: KDD'23, CIKM'24, arXiv'24 (x4)
  • 2022 Summer-Fall, Hao Cheng, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), Intern Paper: ICLR'24
  • 2022 Spring-Summer, Kexin Zhang, PhD Student, Zhejiang University (ZJU), Intern Paper: ICASSP'24, TPAMI'24
  • 2020 Summer, Qingyang Xu, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Intern Paper: ICASSP'21
  • 2019 Summer, Zhe Zhang, PhD Student, Georgia Institute of Technology (Gatech), Intern Paper: KDD'20
  • 2018 Summer, Zhengzhi Ma, PhD Student, University of Southern California (USC), Intern Paper: ICASSP'20
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