Hi! I am an Assistant Professor at Duke CS. Before Duke, I led data R&D for computer-use agents at Meta (Llama â MSL), advancing multimodal agent capabilities across the full LLM training lifecycle. I obtained my PhD from CMU LTI where I worked with Graham Neubig.
I run i2x lab turning {i}ntelligence into {x} where x = human e{x}perience and digital agent e{x}ecution at the moment. where we explore AI agents, their environments, and their interactions with humans. đšī¸ We are recruiting several PhD students in the upcoming cycle. Please apply to Duke CS if you are interested in working with us.
News
- August 2025: I joined Duke CS as an Assistant Professor.
 
Experience
Assistant Professor, Duke CS 
2025.08 - Present
Research Scientist, Meta 
2024.08 - 2025.08 
Under Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Master â Ph.D. of Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University 
2018.08 - 2024.07 
Advisor: Graham Neubig
Ph.D. Resident, X, the moonshot factory 
2022.05 - 2022.08 
Host: Alex Polozov
Research Intern, Microsoft 
2020.05 - 2020.08 
Host: Kaushik Chakrabarti
Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia 
2017.07 - 2018.06 
Host: Chin-Yew Lin