Education
- Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
- August 2022 - present
- B.A. in English Language
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- August 2018 - June 2022
Industrial Experience
- Research Scientist Intern
- Meta, New York, USA
- May 2026 - November 2026
- Mentors: Xinyuan Zhang, Raffay Hamid, Xin Luna Dong
- Built MemLife, a long-term memory system for wearable assistants, and MemOpt, which trains its memory writers with reinforcement learning.
- Applied Scientist Intern
- Amazon, Seattle, USA
- May 2025 - August 2025
- Mentors: Hakan Karagul, Rutu Mulkar
- Worked on interest annotation for sports and outdoor e-commerce, using fine-tuned LLM classifiers for products and RL-trained reasoning models for customers.
Academic Experience
- Graduate Research Assistant
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
- August 2022 - present
- Advisor: Aidong Zhang
- Research on LLM and multimodal agents, retrieval-augmented generation, faithfulness and evaluation, and interpretability.
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, UVa CS 4774 Machine Learning, Fall 2025
- Teaching Assistant, UVa CS 6501 GenAI Overview, Spring 2025
- Teaching Assistant, UVa CS 6316 Machine Learning, Fall 2024
- Teaching Assistant, UVa CS 6316 Machine Learning, Fall 2023
