VLM, LLM, and speech
Foundation models for real-time understanding of multilingual and multimodal live content.
Algorithm engineer and computer vision researcher with experience spanning multimodal foundation models, real-time live-content understanding, biometric security, and applied vision systems.
Experience
Oct 2024 – Present
Algorithm Engineer, TikTok
VLM, LLM, and speech models for real-time understanding of large-scale live content.
Aug 2020 – Oct 2024
Senior Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer, YY Live (Baidu Group)
Computer vision and AI algorithm and architecture R&D for live video, including real-time edge AI and large-scale content understanding.
Dec 2018 – Aug 2020
Staff Researcher, Lenovo Machine Intelligence Center
Computer vision algorithms and R&D platforms for industry and scientific research in Hong Kong.
Sep 2017 – Dec 2018
Research Assistant, Hong Kong Baptist University
Research in computer vision, biometric system security, and privacy.
Feb 2016 – Aug 2016
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Michigan State University
Visiting research appointment in pattern recognition and image processing.
Selected Algorithm Areas
A high-level summary of the algorithm areas I have worked on, without exposing sensitive implementation details.
Long-context modeling
Temporal and cross-modal reasoning over long, continuously evolving content streams.
Efficient AI
Quantization, distillation, and hardware-software co-design for efficient large-scale inference.
Computer vision and biometrics
Region-level visual understanding, face-template security, privacy, and applied vision systems.
Education
Hong Kong Baptist University
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2018
South China University of Technology
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, 2013
Michigan State University
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Feb–Aug 2016
Research areas
VLM, LLM, MLLM, speech, computer vision, biometrics, and real-time live-content understanding.
Professional Service
- IEEE TPAMI
- IEEE TIFS
- IEEE TIP
- IEEE TCYB
- Pattern Recognition
- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
- ICME
- ICPR
- ICASSP
Teaching and Recognition
Teaching assistance
Courses include Web Intelligence and Information & Knowledge Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Selected recognition
Excellent Teaching Assistant Performance Award, 2017.
Programming contest
Third Runner-up Award, ACM Hong Kong Collegiate Programming Contest, 2014.
Research profiles
Google Scholar, OpenReview, ORCID, and LinkedIn provide the most current public record.