Experience

Carnegie Mellon University
Postdoctoral Associate Dec 2025 — Present
Multimodal Large Language Models and Embodied AI. Working on long-context diagnostic reasoning in clinical LVLMs, 3D spatial reasoning over volumetric medical data (SpatialMed), and VLA benchmarking for biological lab automation.
Seeing Machines (LSE-listed)
Machine Learning Scientist Jun 2022 — Apr 2024
AI for Smart Vehicles. Led end-to-end development of driver hand activity recognition (3D hand-position estimation MPJPE 53→32 mm; activity accuracy 37%→79%) and attention monitoring (87%→95%). Built a diffusion-based photorealism enhancement pipeline (Diffusers, DreamBooth, LoRA) lifting hand-detection mAP from 0.67 to 0.89. Shipped quantized inference models to production vehicle programs for Volkswagen, BMW, and Ford.

Education

Australian National University
PhD, Computer Vision & Machine Learning 2018 — 2022
Peking University
MSc, Computer Science [Rank 3/46 (Top 5%)] 2013 — 2016
Sun Yat-sen University
BSc, Computer Science [Rank 3/252 (Top 5%)] 2009 — 2013

Technical Skills

LLM & MLLM
Post-training (SFT, LoRA, DPO, GRPO), LLaVA, InternVL, MedGemma
Generative Models
Diffusion Models, Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, DreamBooth
Foundations
CNNs, Transformers, PyTorch, Python

Academic Service

Reviewer
CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and related venues
Supervisor
Associate PhD Supervisor at the Australian National University

Honors & Awards

ANU Merit International PhD Scholarship 2018 — 2022
ANU International PhD Scholarship 2018 — 2022
Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Data61–CSIRO) 2018 — 2022