My research focuses on foundations and algorithms for trustworthy AI and developing reliable machine learning in the open-world:
Out-of-distribution (OOD) learning: enhancing model robustness and generalizability regarding distribution shifts and detecting OOD data, such as semantic/covariate shifts. Quantifying distribution shifts in the wild, including correlation/diversity shifts.
Machine learning techniques with provable guarantees to ensure reliable and well-understood deployment of AI systems.
Understanding and addressing safety issues in foundation models.
Data-efficient machine learning: selecting the most informative data for efficient learning with human feedbacks.
Junior PhD/master/undergraduate students: If you would like to chat about life, career plan, graduate school applications, or research ideas related to AI/ML, feel free to email me to schedule a meeting. I will dedicate 30 mins every week, especially for students from underrepresented groups or whoever is in need.
Our approach strategically labels examples within a novel maximum disambiguation region, where the number of semantic and covariate OOD data roughly equalizes. By labeling within this region, we can maximally disambiguate the two types of OOD data, thereby maximizing the utility of the fixed labeling budget.
This paper provides an up-to-date review of recent crowd counting approaches, and educate new researchers in this field the design principles and trade-offs.
2024 OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship (Acceptance rate about Top 1%)
Research Travel Grant, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Outstanding Graduates, Zhejiang University
Alibaba-Zhejiang News Scholarship
First-Class Academic Scholarship, Zhejiang University (Top 3%)
First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Zhejiang University (Top 3%)
Outstanding Student Leader Awards, Zhejiang University (Top 6%)
Review Experience
Conference Reviewer
Internation Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023, 2024, 2025.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023, 2024.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, 2024.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022, 2023, 2024.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022, 2024.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022.
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2024.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2024.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) 2024.
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
Teaching Assistant
University of Wisconsin–Madison
COMP CS400: Data Science Programming III (Spring 2024)
University of Wisconsin–Madison
COMP CS220: Data Science Programming I (Fall 2022)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
COMP2611: Computer Organization (Fall 2019, Spring 2019)