I am a Senior Research Scientist at Apple, where I am tech lead for visual generation foundation models for Apple Intelligence. During my time at Apple, I have worked with Alex Schwing and Lu Jiang on video generation foundation models. On the image side, I have contributed to the scaling of the base model behind ADM 3 Cloud (Apple Diffusion Model), which powers Image Playground and Photos editing tools.
I received my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Oregon State University, advised by Fuxin Li. During my graduate studies, I worked on generative models, long-tail learning, and interpretability, and interned at Scale AI. I earned my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Mathematics, from Amirkabir University of Technology.
My research interests are visual generation and world modeling, unified multimodal models, diffusion and autoregressive modeling, representation learning, long-tail learning, and interpretability.