About me

I am a Nanyang Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University and Adjunct Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I also serve as the Chief Scientist at Kunlun Wanwei Technology & Skywork AI, and Lead Scientist/Professor at Shanghai AI Lab and Shanghai Innovation Institute. I received my Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2015 and my B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2010. From 2023 to 2025, I served as Chief Scientist at Minimax, which went public in 2026. With my industry collaborators, I have delivered a series of GenAI models, including Minimax abab6.5/7/M1, Hailuo Video, Skywork SuperAgent/ Skyreels/Matrix-Game. Before that, I was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, where I led multiple teams to productize core technologies powering OpenAI models such as Copilot, DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, and GPT-4.

My research interests specialize in efficient/sparse architectures, model compression, and multimodal learning. I regularly serve as a Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS and ICML and as an Area Chair for CVPR, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, and EMNLP. I am the Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. My papers have won IEEE 2024 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award, Outstanding Paper Award in NeurIPS 2023, and Best Student Paper Honorable Mention in WACV 2021. I am an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University.

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