Projects

Ongoing Projects

  • Optimizing Inference-Time Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models
    The Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering (SHIAE) Research Grant, 2025-2026.

  • Bilevel Models and Methods for Model Fine-Tuning
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant, 2025-2027.

Funded Proposals (@IBM)

  • Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of in-context learning and chain of thought using properly trained transformer models
    RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration Program, 2025.

  • Meta-learned digital twins for circuit design in chiplet integration
    RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration Program, 2025.

  • Human-in-the-loop dynamic control of LLM safety levels at inference time
    MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, 2024-2025.

  • Safe and robust multi-agent deep RL for power grids
    MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, 2024-2026.

  • Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of in-context learning using properly trained transformer models
    RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration Program, 2023-2024.

  • Large-scale foundation acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition
    RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration Program, 2022-2024.

  • Adaptive, collaborative, and accelerated optimization for machine learning
    MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, 2022-2023.

  • Accelerated and compressed distributed stochastic optimization for deep learning
    RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration Program, 2021-2022.

  • Provably efficient reinforcement learning via neuro-symbolic representations
    RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration Program, 2021-2023.

  • Symbiotic foundations for AI and network research
    NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence, 2021-2026.