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Education

2023 - Now: Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2018 - 2023: Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
- Led a team developing cutting-edge pre-training techniques for NLP and multimodal tasks;
- Led a team to integrate GPT-4 to Bing’s search services to provide the knowledge base for the New Bing; compressing GPT-4/ChatGPT to reduce the model size.
2015 - 2018: Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Waterson Research Center
- Developed model compression techniques and applied them to image classification/object detection models in IBM Watson services;
- Led a team to develop deep generative models (GAN, VAE) based techniques, many of which have been productized to IBM products.
2023 - Now: Visiting Professor, Rice University
- Teaching the graduate course “Special Topics in Deep Learning”
2018 - Now: Visiting Professor, Renmin University of China
- Teaching the graduate course “Advanced Deep Learning”