• I am a Senior AI Researcher @ Netflix working on LLMs/Foundation Models.
• I received my CS Ph.D. in Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Srijan Kumar.
• My research interests include Personalization, Multimodality, AI Safety and Alignment, Interpretability, Physical AI!
• I enjoy playing tennis, working out, video gaming, and traveling in my free time!

What’s New?

• (Jan. 2026) Our LLM post-training paper has been published to Netflix Research Homepage! We show that fine-tuning Llama 3 with multimodal engagement and content data in Netflix is better than our production model, as per personalizing artwork (i.e., thumbnail)!

• (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!