Our Team

Meet the brilliant minds driving innovation in artificial intelligence research

Faculty

Prof. Tong Zhang

Prof. Tong Zhang

Principal Investigator

Tong Zhang is a professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Students

Chenlu Ye

Chenlu Ye

PhD Student

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in computer science at UIUC

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HZ

Hanning Zhang

Master Student

I am a Master's student at UIUC working in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models.

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Hanyang Chen

Hanyang Chen

Master Student

I am a second-year MSCS student in UIUC, where i explore Post-training for Multimodal Large Model(MLM), with a particular focus on Embodied AI.

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Jack (Hao) Bai

Jack (Hao) Bai

PhD Student

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in computer science at UIUC, focusing on scaling the reasoning and planning capability of intelligent agents with foundation models and reinforcement learning.

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Jerry Huang

Jerry Huang

Master Student

I am a Master's student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) advised by Prof. Tong Zhang and Prof. Julia Hockenmaier.

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Jiarui Yao

Jiarui Yao

PhD Student

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in computer science at UIUC.

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Nishant Jain

Nishant Jain

PhD Student

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at UIUC working with Prof. Tong Zhang, with research interests in machine learning, computer vision, and quantum algorithms.

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Pengcheng Wang

Pengcheng Wang

Master Student

I am a Master's student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) advised by Prof. Tong Zhang.

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Rui Pan

Rui Pan

PhD Student

I am a second-year Ph.D student in computer science, major in optimization and large language model training.

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Rui Yang

Rui Yang

PhD Student

I am a CS PhD student at UIUC researching agents, trustworthy LLMs/VLMs, and deep reinforcement learning.

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Ruida Wang

Ruida Wang

PhD Student

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC, focusing on formal language applications in natural language generation and making ML systems more compatible with human-level reasoning.

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Shivanshu Shekhar

Shivanshu Shekhar

PhD Student

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at UIUC under Prof. Tong Zhang, focusing on deep learning, natural language processing, and optimization for large language models.

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Wei Xiong

Wei Xiong

PhD Student

I am a final-year Ph.D. student in computer science at UIUC.

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Yifan Hao

Yifan Hao

PhD Student

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in computer science at UIUC

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Yuxing Liu

Yuxing Liu

PhD Student

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in computer science at UIUC

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Alumni

BY

Binnie Yiu

Alumni

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Cong Fang

Cong Fang

Assistant Professor at Peking University

Assistant Professor at Peking University focusing on machine learning algorithms and theory, optimization and the foundation of deep learning.

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DH

Daniel Hsu

Alumni

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DV

Daniel Vainsencher

Alumni

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DD

Dong Dai

Alumni

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HY

Haishan Ye

Alumni

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Hanze Dong

Hanze Dong

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and founding member of the Singapore research team, focusing on LLM training/inference algorithms and reinforcement learning.

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JZ

Jingwei Zhang

Alumni

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Jipeng Zhang

Jipeng Zhang

PhD Student at HKUST

Ph.D. student at HKUST focusing on Large Language Models, computational efficiency, specialized models, and multimodal integration.

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KMT

Kean Ming Tan

Alumni

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LH

Lei Han

Alumni

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LL

Luo Luo

Assistant Professor at Fudan University

Assistant Professor at Fudan University focusing on machine learning, optimization and linear algebra.

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MT

Matus Telgarsky

Alumni

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PH

Paat Helbert

Alumni

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PZ

Peilin Zhao

Alumni

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QS

Qiang Sun

Alumni

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QL

Qing Lian

Alumni

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Renjie Pi

Renjie Pi

PhD Student at HKUST

Third-year PhD student at HKUST focusing on data-centric AI, multimodal large language models, and optimization algorithms.

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Shizhe Diao

Shizhe Diao

NVIDIA Research Scientist

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Shuang Qiu

Alumni

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TY

Ting Yang

Alumni

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WZ

Weizhong Zhang

Alumni

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XZ

Xiao Zhou

Alumni

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Xiaoyu Wang

Xiaoyu Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow at HKUST

Postdoctoral fellow at HKUST working with Prof. Tong Zhang, focusing on optimization algorithms and their application in large-scale machine learning.

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Xinwei Shen

Xinwei Shen

Assistant Professor at the University of Washington

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Xunpeng Huang

Xunpeng Huang

PhD Student at HKUST

Third-year Ph.D. student at HKUST focusing on machine learning algorithms and theory including sampling algorithms, stochastic/nonconvex optimization and mean-field analysis.

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YH

Yaowei Huang

Alumni

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Yong Lin

Yong Lin

Postdoc at Princeton University

I am a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton Language and Intelligence(PLI), working with Chi Jin, Sanjeev Arora, and Danqi Chen. I did my PhD study in Tong Zhang's group.

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YD

Yuhui Ding

Alumni

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ZH

Zhichao Huang

Alumni

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