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I am a Professor at HKUST AMC and a Visiting Professor at Yale University. My research focuses on advancing AGI, particularly in image and video generation. I am also interested in distributed systems, privacy, efficiency, and the intersection of AI and Web3. Previously, I worked at Meta as a Research Scientist. I am also the co-founder of Nesa. I earned PhD in computer science from USC and completed my undergraduate studies at USTC (SCGY). I am honored to be a recipient of the USC Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Students & Interns
Team & Collaborators
January 2025
- “Secure and Robust Distributed AI Training and Inference Framework for Next-Generation AI Systems” was awarded the 2025 HKUST-POSTECH Joint Research Seed Grant Program and Global Knowledge Network Awards (a joint grant with Professor Kwang In Kim).
- We received over $2 million USD in funding from industry partners, along with access to large-scale, high-end computing resources.
Paper Highlights
December 2024
- Our video project was approved for the HKSTP Incubation Program (3 years).
- Meta-Learning for Speeding Up Large Model Inference (AAAI DAI Workshop)
- Project funded by TSSSU-O.
- Towards Secure and Private AI: A Framework for Decentralized Inference (NeurIPS Workshop on RBFM)
November 2024
- Delivered a talk at DevCon Bangkok.
September 2024
- Visited Abu Dhabi and met with the Royal Family to discuss collaboration.
- Delivered a talk in Singapore at Token2049.
August 2024
- Hosted a roundtable at Foresight 2024 in Hong Kong.
- Invited as a panel speaker at ABS 2024 in Taipei.
- Visited CUHKSZ.
April 2024
- Foresight interview.
- Invited as a panel speaker at the Harvard Blockchain Conference 2024.
March 2024
- Our project was selected by Binance Labs for incubation.
Zihao Wang
Yexin Liu
Xuran Ma
Weixiao Wang
Mingzhe Zheng
Xianfeng Wu
Yajing Bai
Wenjie Shu
Haoze Zheng
Harold Chen
Yatian Pang (with Li Yuan)
Feilong Tang
Bin Ma
Sen Liang
Yuxiang Lin
Zhefan Rao (with Qifeng Chen)
Xin Yang (with Qifeng Chen)
Yiyu Zhuang
Dongli Xu
Qiang Sun
Ser-Nam Lim
Xiaofeng Liu
Yue Zhao
Hongyang Zhang
Xiaofan Liu
Yaoheng Yang
Benyou Wang
Ailing Zeng
Li Yuan
Hao Li
Qifeng Chen