| 2026.09 | VAR-Q will appear at NeurIPS 2026! Our project page is now live, featuring tuning-free KV cache quantization for autoregressive image and video generation, with results across nine models. Read the paper. |
| 2026.07 | Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, “Co-Architecting Models and Systems for Efficient Perception and Generation,” at UC Santa Barbara. |
| 2026.07 | Received Second Place at the DAC Ph.D. Forum and a travel grant from ACM SIGDA / IEEE CEDA. |
| 2026.05 | Recognized as an ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer. |
| 2026.04 | Our Sparse Forcing preprint is available: native trainable sparse attention for real-time autoregressive video generation, in collaboration with Meta Superintelligence Labs. Paper. |
| 2026.04 | Awarded the Radhakrishnan Nagarajan Family Fellowship at UCSB. |
| 2026.02 | Paper on VLM hallucination mitigation (VEGAS) accepted at CVPR 2026 Findings. |
| 2025.11 | Papers on adaptive KV caching for visual autoregressive models and KAN-based graph contrastive learning accepted at AAAI 2026. |
| 2025.10 | 🏆 Paper on 3D MoE spiking transformers nominated for the William J. McCalla Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2025 — second consecutive year. |
| 2025.06 | Paper on 3D MoE spiking transformer acceleration accepted at ICCAD 2025. |
| 2025.05 | Paper on transfer learning for Vmin prediction in advanced nodes accepted at ITC 2025. |
| 2025.04 | Paper on heterogeneous quantization for spiking vision transformers accepted at ASAP 2025. |
| 2025.03 | Paper on heterogeneous-core acceleration of spiking transformers with error-constrained pruning accepted at ISCA 2025. |
| 2025.01 | Paper on network-hardware co-optimization for sparse SNN accelerators accepted at TCAD as a long paper. |
| 2025.01 | Joining Meta Superintelligence Labs this summer in Seattle, working on efficient movie generation. |
| 2024.10 | 🏆 Paper on 3D spiking transformer accelerators nominated for the William J. McCalla Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2024. |
| 2024.07 | Papers on 3D spiking transformer accelerators and LLM-guided analog design accepted at ICCAD 2024. |
| 2024.06 | Started summer internship at Meta AI, working on multi-teacher knowledge distillation of multi-modal multi-task foundation models. |
| 2024.05 | Paper on a multi-modal IoT SoC with on-chip MRAM accepted at JSSC. |