Brief Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Prior to joining RIT, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University from 2020 to 2022. I received my Ph.D. degree from the ECE Department at Northeastern University, under the supervision of Prof. Yun Raymond Fu. I obtained my B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University in 2012 and 2015, respectively.

My group focuses on studying smart, scalable, and secure machine learning algorithms through optimization and inference techniques for a wide range of fields, including healthcare, AI education, computational imaging, and data science applications. Particularly, our recent works investigate large language models (LLMs) / large vision-language models (LVLMs) toward reliable multimodal understanding, calibrated uncertainty estimation in low-level vision, fair ranking, and trustworthy decision-making, supported by NSF, NIH, and ARL awards.

I am looking for highly-motivated graduate (PhD/MS) and undergraduate students to work with our group. Please drop me an email if interested.

Recent News:

• 2026-06: One paper on Visual Reasoning for LVLM was accepted by ECCV 2026. Congratulations to Guohao and all the collaborators.
• 2026-06: Two papers on Autonomous Driving and Visual AutoRegressive Modeling were accepted by IROS 2026. Congratulations to Meibo and Ziqi.
• 2026-03: Received an NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award to support our research on VLA for Autonomous Navigation.
• 2026-02: One paper on Token Pruning for Efficient LVLM was accepted by CVPR 2026. Congratulations to Guohao and all the collaborators.
• 2025-09: One paper on LVLM Reasoning was accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to Guohao.
• 2025-09: One paper on LLM Ranker was accepted by SIGIR-AP 2025. Congratulations to Haowei.
• 2025-08: Four papers on Visual AutoRegressive Modeling, Reasoning LLMs, and LVLM Fairness were accepted by EMNLP 2025. Congratulations to Jiamian, Ziqi, Prasanna, and Xuyang.
• 2024-12: My little one was born. Hello World!
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