I am a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, advised by Prof. Ying Nian Wu, Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos, and Prof. Song-Chun Zhu. Previously, I conducted research at Meta FAIR, Amazon AWS AI, and SenseTime Research. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
I am broadly interested in fundamental problems in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, including Generative Modeling, Sequential Decision-Making, and Representation Learning, etc. My Ph.D. thesis is centered around the statistical and representational structures of latent-variable top-down models, as well as the associated inference and learning algorithms on various data modalities.