Experience

RBC Borealis, Toronto, Canada
Machine Learning Researcher Intern • May 2025 to Present
Proposed and worked for the embedding base context aware reranker project. By integrating rerankers, RAG systems can strike a better balance between speed and precision, leading to more reliable and efficient outputs in various applications.
This work is part of the RBC Borealis ML Research program.
🔥 More interesting works will be released soon!
Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Amin Shabani, Dr. Siqi Liu, and Dr. Jiawei (Eric) He.
Samsung Research America, Mountain View, USA
Reseasrch Assistant • January 2025 to Present
Academic research collaboration between McGill and Samsung Research for leveraging LLMs in communications scenarios.
🔥 More interesting works will be released soon!
This collaboration is supported by Samsung Global Research Outreach program.
Collaborators: Dr. Hao Chen, Dr. Yan Xin, and Dr. Jianzhong (Charlie) Zhang.
Alexandria Team, Microsoft Research, London, UK
MSR x Mila Student Researcher • March 2023 to Present
Proposed a multi-stage architecture for extracting structured kowledge from plain texts with LLMs.
Proposed a new metric tailored for structured entity extraction.
Proposed a diffusion-based model for entity linking purpose.
This collaboration is supported by MSR-Mila Research Grant.
🔥 More interesting works will be released soon!
Advisor: Dr. Bhaskar Mitra.
Collaborators: Dr. James Hensman, Liana Mikaelyan, Pavel Myshkov, Dr. Alexander Meulemans (during his internship), Dr. Jan Tönshoff (during his internship), Dr. Taketomo Isazawa, and Dr. Tom Minka.
Noah's Ark Lab Canada , Montreal, Canada
Associate Researcher Intern • April 2023 to May 2025
Adapted the soft prompting to distribution shifts and empowered one model for multiple scenarios.
Explored model compression ideas like LoRA-pruning and Mixture of Depth model to save calculations.
Took strategy insights into cutting-edge LLM methods and techniques from leading unicorn startups.
Advisor: Xi (Alex) Chen.
Mila-Quebec AI Insititute, Montreal, Canada
Mentor • May 2024 to December 2024; May 2025 to Present
Supervised Master of Science students for their internships projects at Deep River and Bell Canada.
Provided guidance for entity-linking, fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and RAG for LLMs.
Offered supervision for document extraction, named entity extraction, and coreference resolution.