Publications Resume

Contact Me

Email: annili0012@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Anni.

  • 👩🏻‍💻 MS student in ECE-Machine Learning and Data Science
  • 🎓 Graduating in May 2025, actively looking for full-time MLE positions

  • 💻 Passionate about Deep Learning research, development, and application
  • 🔍 Enjoy finding connections between different fields

Experiences

08/2023 - Current
  • Focusing on efficient training and inference of large models on NLP and computer vision tasks, developed adaptive freezing LoRA as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method that yields 9.5× fewer trainable parameters on DeBERTaV3 with a SOTA performance in comparison with original LoRA on GLUE benchmark.
  • Developed energy-efficient neural networks for hardware implementations targeting tasks such as speech recognition, image classification, and anomaly detection. Pioneered a spiking recurrent model that is efficient for streaming edge computing and has performance comparable to transformer models. In experiments on Google Speech Dataset, our model achieved 50x reduction in number of parameters and 65x reduction in FLOPS in comparison to the SOTA transformer-based models.
  • On-going research focusing on long-context compression for LLMs and Linear Transformers.
12/2021 - 09/2024
  • Affiliated with CERN, developed variations of graph neural networks (GNNs) combined with generative adversarial networks (GANs) for simulations of high-energy particle collisions using data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC); Utilized Docker and Kubernetes to ensure efficient deployment and management of the model workflows.
  • Engineered Induced set transformers architecture in Message Passing GANs, leading to the conception of the high-performing Induced Generative Adversarial Particle Transformer (iGAPT), realized a linear inference complexity (6× faster) compared to its predecessor and marks high scores based on established evaluation metrics.
10/2021 - 03/2022
  • Collected and updated policies published by Qinghai Province, China in response to COVID-19 to the database.

Education

University of Southern California

08/2023 - 05/2025

Master of Science, GPA: 3.91 / 4.0

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering - Machine Learning and Data Science

University of California, San Diego

09/2019 - 06/2023

Bachelor of Science, GPA: 3.83 / 4.0

Major: Physics; Cognitive Science (Machine Learning & Neural Computation)
Minor: Mathematics

  • 2022-2023 Physical Sciences Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence (34 selected from 4,000 students)
  • Provost Honors