Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Virginia, U.S., Aug. 2022 ~ Present.

• M.S. in Computer Science, Jilin University, China, Sep. 2019 ~ June 2022.

• B.S. in Computer Science, Jilin University, China, Sep. 2015 ~ July 2019

Work Experience

• Applied Scientist Intern @ Amazon, Jan. 2025 ~ Present

  • Rufus Alignment Team

  • Mentored by Dr. Wenlin Yao and Dr. Lihong Li, I worked on improving the reasoning ability of multimodal LLMs by scaling up inference-time compute.

Academic Experience

• Research Assistant @ University of Virginia, Aug. 2023 ~ Present

  • I worked with Prof. Yu Meng on large language model and trustworthy generation.

• Research Assistant @ University of Virginia, Aug. 2022 ~ Aug. 2023

  • Human-Centric Data Mining Lab

  • I worked with Prof. Hongning Wang on federated bandits and online reinforcement learning.

• Research Assistant @ Jilin University, Sep. 2019 ~ June 2022

  • Artificial Intelligence Lab

  • I worked with Prof. Yi Chang on natural language processing and knowledge-based reasoning.

• Research Assistant @ Jilin University, May 2017 ~ June 2018

  • Machine Learning Lab

  • I worked with Prof. You Zhou on machine learning and deep reinforcement learning.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, CS 4501: Natural Language Processing, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Fall 2024.

• Teaching Assistant, CS 6501: Natural Language Processing, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Spring 2024.

• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Fall 2020.