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Senior Applied AI Researcher

Jan. 2025 - Now

Applied AI Researcher

Apr. 2024 - Dec. 2024
  • Developed multi-lingual multi-modal GenAI models for image understanding, visual question answering and image-text alignment and retrieval.
  • Collaborated with engineering team to deliver task-specific large language models, including table analysis and harmful content detection.
  • Designed domain-specific GenAI models, including data curation, large-scale model training and domain- specific benchmark evaluation.
    • Statistical Visual Computing Lab (SVCL) UCSD

    Graduate Student Researcher

    Jun 2018 - Mar 2024
  • Publishing 15 papers during PhD studies, on topics including visual language model, self-supervised learning, anomaly detection, and model robustness
  • Large-scale 3D reconstruction of real objects [Project]
    • Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

    Research Intern

    Jun 2023 - Sept. 2023
  • Conducted research on industrial anomaly detection
  • One paper published in CVPR24
    • Amazon AWS AI

    Applied Scientist Intern

    Jun 2021 - Sept. 2021
  • Developed a visual grounding transformer model with 1.3x smaller size and 3x faster speed
  • Published a paper in ECCV 2022 Workshop on International Challenge on Compositional and Multimodal Perception. [Blogs]
    • Computer Vision Research Center at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)

    Research Assistance

    Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
  • Rupee bill serial number detection and recognition
  • Deep learning-based human activity analysis for aerial images
  • Principal point estimation algorithm
  • Automated optical inspection for bobbin defects
    • Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

    Software Engineer Intern

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
  • Robotic arm DH parameters calibration with an industrial camera
  • Design user interface with C# to control robotic arm and complete calibration
  • Represented ITRI by attending the 2015 Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robot Show