About Me
I am currently a 4th-year PhD student at the Mathis Laboratory of Adaptive Intelligence at EPFL, working under the supervision of Professor Mackenzie Mathis. My primary research focus is achieving machine science through the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and foundation models. My key projects during my PhD include developing the “SuperAnimal” models for foundational animal pose estimation and “AmadeusGPT,” a natural language interface for behavior analysis. These tools form an interface for LLMs to study animal behaviors.
My academic contributions span the domains of computer vision foundation models, LLM-based systems, the robustness of neural networks, and efficient neural network. My work has been recognized at conferences such as ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ASPLOS, and DAC, and in journals like Nature Methods, Nature Communications, and TNNLs, accumulating over 2000 citations as of 2024. Additionally, I have served as a reviewer for ECCV and Science.
Before I started PhD, I gained substantial industry experience as a senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba Group and as a researcher at the Institute for interdisciplinary (IIISCT) in Xi’an and Beijing. Earlier, I worked as a software engineer at Geonumerical Solutions.
News
Latest Updates
[April 2024]
- My first-author paper, SuperAnimal models pretrained for plug-and-play analysis of animal behavior has been accepted by Nature Communications.
- My co-authored paper, Keypoint-MoSeq: parsing behavior by linking point tracking to pose dynamics has been accepted by Nature Methods.
[October 2023]
- My first-author paper, AmadeusGPT: a natural language interface for interactive animal behavioral analysis has been accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
[March 2022]
- Co-authored paper Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut was accepted by Nature Methods.
- Co-authored paper on building more robust vision transformers was accepted by CVPR 2022.
[March 2021]
- Two co-authored papers on the adversarial vulnerability of neural networks, accepted by CVPR 2021.
Education
- M.S. in Computer Engineering, Syracuse University
- Academic Advisor: Prof. Yanzhi Wang
- B.S. in Computer Engineering, Saint Louis University