Experience

  1. Applied Scientist

    AWS GenAI

    B2B AI Application:

    • Multi-media text/image/video understanding
  2. Applied Scientist

    Amazon Alexa Science

    LLM inference optimization and responsible AI:

    • Optimized LLM inference with sglang and vLLM, achieving 50% latency reduction
    • Built multilingual PII and policy violation classifiers (Sparse RoBERTa, Qwen3-0.6B), improving precision by 60%
    • Developed guardrail models for Alexa’s core LLM ensuring policy-compliant responses across languages
  3. NLP Data Scientist

    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

    Clinical NLP research:

    • Built clinical diagnosis reasoning via knowledge graph networks with LLM reasoning and response re-ranking
    • Designed LLM pretraining pipeline over large-scale healthcare knowledge bases with distributed training
    • Contributed to LogosKG: hardware-optimized scalable knowledge graph retrieval system
    • Coauthored paper on clinical text summarization with temporal reasoning (EMNLP 2025)
  4. Machine Learning Engineer Intern

    AI Newsletter Startup

    AI-powered newsletter generation:

    • Built event clustering/extraction on web-scraped data with RAG for news summarization
    • Engineered LLM-powered summarization and rewriting pipeline for production content workflows
  5. Research Assistant

    Purdue University

    HPC, distributed systems & AI infrastructure research:

    • Designed decentralized ML system for NASA spacecraft networks using blockchain-based coordination
    • Built distributed ML on embedded devices (Raspberry Pi, Nvidia Jetson) using Torch-TensorRT
    • Developed GPT-3.5 agentic coding workflow for autonomous robot control code generation
    • Published multiple papers in IEEE and top-tier venues on distributed systems and cybersecurity
  6. Research Assistant

    Iowa State University

    HPC storage systems:

    • Optimized HPC distributed storage I/O throughput prediction using LSTM/RNN models on Lustre parallel filesystem across 32-node clusters
  7. Research Assistant

    University of Akron

    Networking security & smart grid systems:

    • Designed HIL testing infrastructure for large-scale renewable energy systems
    • Implemented attack detection and resilient communication middleware for smart grids using ML and SDN
    • Developed blockchain-powered decentralized computing system (2 US patents granted)
  8. Instructor

    Tsinghua IT Training School
    Taught C programming fundamentals and web development (HTML/HTML5)
  9. Software Engineer

    Haite Measurement and Control Technology Co.
    Developed embedded system software using industrial fieldbuses (Modbus, Profibus-PA/DP) for measurement and control systems

Education

  1. PhD in Computer and Information Technology

    Purdue University
    Dissertation: Data-Driven Computing and Networking Solution for Securing Cyber-Physical Systems. Supervised by Prof Jin Wei-Kocsis. Research areas: distributed machine learning, HPC infrastructure, cybersecurity, resource allocation, AI for robotics. 15+ publications, 2 US patents.
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  2. ME in Electronic and Computer Engineering

    University of Limerick
    VLSI circuit design and test, embedded systems, hardware-software integration
  3. BS in Automation

    Harbin Institute of Technology
    Industrial control systems and automation
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
PyTorch
Linux
Hobbies
Hiking

Mostly day hike and rarely backpacking

Photography
Languages
100%
Chinese
75%
English