Published multiple papers, received several awards including the Doctoral Dissertation Award and Amazon Research Award; Delivered talks and served as an organizer at various international conferences; Released Fast Prompt Alignment for Text-to-Image Generation with his team at TikTok, including the open-source codebase.
Research Experience
Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle; Former Senior Research Scientist at TikTok (Bytedance) and AI Research Scientist at Meta; Internships at Google Brain (now merged into Google Deepmind), Amazon Alexa, Adobe Research, and Meta (then-known as Facebook AI), working on challenges in parsing, summarization, entity linking, and dialog systems.
Education
Ph.D. from UC San Diego, where he earned the Doctoral Dissertation Award and an Amazon Research Award. Advisor: Dr. Yassine Benajiba.
Background
An NLP & Generative AI Researcher, aiming to democratize LLMs & language technology and explore their applications in user-generated content and underrepresented areas.
Miscellany
Passionate about sharing knowledge through talks, mentorship, and organizing global AI events.