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Principal Investigator

Mingyi Hong

Mingyi Hong

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota

Office: 6-109 Keller Hall

Phone: (612) 625-3505

Email: mhong@umn.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Chung-Yiu Yau

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jiaxiang Li
Jiaxiang Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ioannis Tsaknakis
Ioannis Tsaknakis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hadi Reisizadeh
Hadi Reisizadeh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Ph.D. Students

Quan Wei
Quan Wei

LLM Quantization, Agent

Xinnan Zhang
Xinnan Zhang

LLM Alignment, Reinforcement Learning

Jon Peng
Jon Peng

Diffusion models

Xiaotian Jiang
Xiaotian Jiang

Bilevel Optimization

Bingqing Song
Bingqing Song

Statistical Learning, ML for Communication

Siliang Zeng
Siliang Zeng

Reinforcement Learning, LLMs, Alignment

Athanasios Glentis

Parameter Efficient Training Algorithms

Email: glent007@umn.edu

Alumni

Xinwei Zhang
Xinwei Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow at USC

Haoran Sun
Haoran Sun

Meta

Prashant Kanduri
Prashant Kanduri

Assistant Professor at Wayne State University

Xiangyi Chen
Xiangyi Chen

Pinterest

Songtao Lu
Dr. Songtao Lu

Assistant Professor at CUHK

Qingjiang Shi
Qingjiang Shi

Professor at Tongji University

Davood Hajinezhad
Davood Hajinezhad

Research Scientist at Fidelity

Ziping Zhao
Ziping Zhao

Assistant Professor at Shanghai Tech

Yijian Zhang
Yijian Zhang

Data Scientist at Gap Corp.

Mostafa Amin-Naseri
Mostafa Amin-Naseri

Joint supervised with Stephen Gilbert

Andre Fristo
Andre Fristo

Former Researcher

Chase Grimm
Chase Grimm

Former Researcher