About Me

Learn more about my background, experience, and awards.

Introduction

I am a Senior Staff Machine Learning Researcher and Manager at Qualcomm Computer Vision Group. In July 2017, I earned my PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Irvine, under the guidance of Prof. Jack Xin. My academic journey began with a Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics, followed by a Master's in Computational Mathematics from Shandong University, China. During my studies, I interned at Black Knight Financial Services and the data science team at Zillow. While pursuing my PhD, I collaborated on a research project with Qualcomm's computer vision team, which led me to join the group after graduation. My research now focuses on Segmentations, Detections, Foundation models, Multi-modality AI, and Optimization on Edge-AI and Hybrid-AI.

Work Experience

Qualcomm

Senior Staff Engineer and Manager, 2024–Present

Staff Engineer, 2020–2024

Senior Engineer, 2017–2020

Zillow Group

Internship, 2016

Black Knight Financial Services

Internship, 2015

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2012–2017

University of California, Irvine, USA

Advisor: Jack Xin

Master in Computational Mathematics, 2009–2012

Shandong University, China

Bachelor in Applied Mathematics, 2005–2009

Shandong University, China

Honors, Awards and Recognition

IEEE Senior Member

Promoted in 2023

2nd Awards in Both Low Latency Image Classification and Detection

IEEE Low Power Image Recognition Challenge II (LPIRC-II), 2018

Kovalevsky Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award

University of California, Irvine, 2017

SIAM Student Travel Award

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2016

Von Neumann Outstanding Research Award

University of California, Irvine, 2015

National Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate

Ministry of Education, P.R. China, 2007