I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University and the Director of OSU AIoT and Machine Learning Systems Lab. I received my Ph.D. from University of Southern California and B.S. from Peking University, and spent one year as a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University. I am an ACM Distinguished Member.

The key mission of my lab is to to realize the vision of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). Currently, we focus on building highly efficient multimodal large language model-based AI systems with advanced reasoning capabilities and super memory on both edge and cloud platforms to enable important applications such as Agentic AI, Spatial Computing/AR, and Physical/Embodied AI.

My work has been recognized with five Best Paper Awards and three Best Paper nominations or honorable mentions, as well as the NSF CRII Award, Facebook/Meta Faculty Research Award, Amazon Research Award, and the Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science. I was also the 4th-place winner of the Google MicroNet Challenge, the 3rd-place winner of the NSF Hearables Challenge, and the champion of the NIH Pill Image Recognition Challenge. In addition, I received the inaugural USC ECE SIPI Distinguished Alumni Award in the Junior/Academia category in recognition of my early-career contributions.