• I am a GenAI/ML Research Scientist @ Netflix working on Foundation Models at Netflix.
• I received my CS Ph.D. in Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Srijan Kumar.
• My research interests include GenAI, Multimodal LLMs, Foundation Model, AI Safety and Alignment, and Recommender Systems!.
• I enjoy playing tennis, working out, video gaming, and traveling in my free time!

What’s New?

• (May 2025) Our foundation model FM-Intent has been published to Netflix Tech Blog and Netflix Research Homepage! FM-Intent is a production model that can predict a user’s intent on Netflix and leverage such user intent for next-item recommendation!

• (Jan. 2025) My EB-1B (Outstanding Professors and Researchers) green card application has been approved! Excited to develop my career in the US for a long time :)

• (Dec. 2024) Our UniGuard paper is accepted to DAI 2025 workshop at AAAI. UniGuard is a novel multimodal safety guardrail that ensure safe LLM responses against adversarial prompts.

• (Sept. 2024) An intent-aware RecSys paper IntentRec is accepted to BayLearn - Machine Learning Symposium 2024! IntentRec improves next-item recommendations by finding a user session intent with hierarchical multi-task learning!

• (Aug. 2024) A adversarial defense paper FINEST is accepted to TKDD Journal! We enhance the stability of existing sequential recommender systems via a special fine-tuning method called FINEST!