Brief Biography

I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI, where I work on research, product development, and open-source initiatives in foundation models. My research interests span large language models, multimodal learning, information retrieval, recommender systems, forecasting, and graph machine learning.

Prior to joining AWS, I was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Ce Zhang. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), advised by Prof. Lina Yao, and supported by the CSIRO Data61 PhD Scholarship. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University.

My work has been recognized with several awards, including the Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2021, and a Best Paper Award runner-up at WSDM 2020, an Area Chair Award at ACL 2024, the Best of the Best Paper Award at the Global Marketing Conference (GMC) 2023.

I am also actively involved in the research community, serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS and ACL Rolling Review, as well as a reviewer, senior program committee member, and guest editor for leading AI/ML conferences and journals. I have also organized workshops at major AI conferences.