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About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stanford University ASL group, working with Prof. Marco Pavone. I obtained my Ph.D. at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Kilian Q. Weinberger and Prof. Bharath Hariharan. My research interest lies in visual understanding of the world, including 3D perception and multi-modal learning, combining visual data with other sensory inputs to enhance environmental understanding.

I am fortunate to have been supported by a Cornell University Fellowship, an Nvidia Graduate Student Fellowship, and an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship Award. Before joining Cornell University, I had the pleasure of working on a variety of topics including applied machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, and applications of natural language processing. View my professional summary here.

News:

[Oct. 2024] Giving a talk at the DriveX Workshop at CVPR 2025 on works in cooperative & augmented perception. Come say hi!
[Oct. 2024] Presenting our work Denoising Vision Transformers at ECCV 2024 in Milan, Italy.
[May 2024] Received the AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship Award; notable alumnae include Marie Curie and Keisha Blain!
[Apr. 2024] Research exchange to the University of Sydney, Australian Centre for Robotics.

Interests

Education

Publications

(* denotes equal contribution)

For an up-to-date list of publications, check out my Google Scholar.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aug 2024 – Present Palo Alto, USA

Graduate Student Researcher

Aug 2020 – May 2025 Ithaca, USA

Visiting Student Researcher

Mar 2024 – May 2024 Sydney, Australia

Visiting Student Researcher

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark

AI Resident

Uber ATG (acquired by Aurora), Advised by Prof. Raquel Urtasun

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 Toronto, Canada

Student Researcher

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 Berkeley, USA

Industry and Exchanges

A Couple of Featured Experiences

PhD Research Intern

Jun 2024 – Oct 2024 Mountain View, USA

Research Intern

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023 Santa Clara, USA

Research Intern

May 2021 – Sep 2021 New York, USA

ML Engineering Intern

Google – YouTube

May 2018 – Aug 2018 Mountain View, USA

Data Science Intern

Wish, Context Logic

May 2017 – Aug 2017 San Francisco, USA

Software Engineering Intern

IBM

May 2016 – Aug 2016 San Jose, USA

Invited Talks