Invited Talks & Tutorials
2026
Are Normalizing Flows Good Candidates for Interactive World Models?
Scalable Normalizing Flows for Visual and Multimodal Generation
Should Embodied Intelligence Care About 3D?
Reasoning in Continuous Space
Learning World Models for Robust Physical Intelligence
Scalable Normalizing Flows for Visual Generation
2025
End-to-End Generative Video Modeling with Scalable Normalizing Flows
Scalable Normalizing Flows for Visual Generation
Learning Reliable and Efficient Generative Intelligence
2024
Towards Flexible, Scalable and Knowledgeable Generative Intelligence
- New York University, guest lecture Apr 16, 2024
- University of Pennsylvania, guest lecture Oct 16, 2024
2023
BOOT: data-free distillation of denoising diffusion models with bootstrapping
- ICML 2023 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling Jul 28, 2023
Towards Efficient Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
- BIRS Workshop, 3D Generative Models, virtual talk Jul 14, 2023
2022
Non-autoregressive Sequence Generation
2021
StyleNeRF: A style-based 3d-aware generator for high-resolution image synthesis
- VALSE Webinar, virtual talk (Chinese) Dec 29, 2021
2020
Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
- Google Translate, virtual talk Jul 17, 2020
- ACL2020 WNGT Workshop, virtual talk Jul 10, 2020
Understanding Knowledge Distillation in Neural Sequence Generation
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Jan 03, 2020
2019
Understanding Knowledge Distillation in Neural Sequence Generation
- Microsoft Translate, Redmond, WA, USA Dec 04, 2019
2017
Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation
- New York University, New York, NY, USA Dec 19, 2017
- Google Brain, Mountain View, CA, USA Nov 20, 2017
Learning to Share: towards Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation without Pivots
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Jul 27, 2017
Trainable Decoding for Neural Machine Translation
- NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China Apr 14, 2017
2016
Learning to Translate in Real-time with Neural Machine Translation
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Oct 27, 2016
- New York University, New York, NY, USA Oct 19, 2016
Academic Service
- Action Editor -- ACL Rolling Review (ARR), since 2022
- Area Chair -- 3DV 2026, COLM 2026, 2025, NeurIPS 2026, 2025, ICLR 2026, 2025, 2024, ICML 2026, 2024, ACL 2021, EMNLP 2020, 2021
- Reviewer (Conference) -- NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCNLP, CVPR, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, AAAI, IJCAI
- Reviewer (Journal) -- TMLR, TACL
Teaching
- Instructor: World Models (CIS 6280), UPennFall 2026
- Instructor: Applied Machine Learning (CIS 4190/5190), UPennSpring 2026
- Instructor: Advanced Topics in Deep Generative Models (CIS 7000), UPennFall 2025
- Teaching Assistant: Human Computer Interaction (ELEC 3641), HKUSpring 2018
- Teaching Assistant: Embedded System (ELEC 3226/3442), HKUSpring 2016
- Teaching Assistant: S/W Engineering and O.S. (ELEC 2501/3541), HKUSpring 2015