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Research

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2025

Jul 2025

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Apr 2025

Feb 2025

Jan 2025

Jun 2025

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  • 7 ICML'25 (low-rank LLM weight theory + geo-distributed LLM pre-training + alignment as plain statistical estimation + scale separation in μP + contextualized equivariant PE + linear attention transformer + multi-view video generation) accepted

  • 1 ACL'25 (Time-MQA) accepted

  • 2 NeuS'25 (symbolic emergence from NN gradient training + in-memory neurosymbolic) accepted

  • 5 CVPR'25 (FlexGS + Steepest Descent 3DGS + Feature4X + StreamingT2V + small VLM guidance) accepted

  • 2 MLSys'25 (APOLLO + formalized VLM uncertainty) accepted

  • 1 PNAS Nexus (neurosymbolic AI) accepted

  • 1 DMLR (DL for scRNA-seq analysis) accepted

  • 7 ICLR'25 (SSM bottleneck + transformer gradient flow + LLaMaFlex + R-Sparse + spike-aware Adam + 4K4DGen + HD-Painter) accepted

  • 1 AISTATS'25 (SteinDreamer) accepted

  • 5 COLM'25 (SPIN-Bench + test-time scaling world model + streerable reasoning + LoX + multi-model alignment) accepted

  • 1 JAMA (PanEcho; IF = 63.1) accepted

2024

Dec 2024

Nov 2024

Oct 2024

Sep 2024

Aug 2024

Jul 2024

Jun 2024

May 2024

  • 1 AAAI'25 (certified sparse transfer) accepted

  • 1 Lancet Digital Health (AI cardiac imaging) accepted

  • 1 TMLR (amortized 3D Gaussians) accepted

  • We thank Matthew Berman for the very cool video [Youtube] highlighting our latest work, OpenAI o1 planning benchmark [Paper] [Code]

  • 8 NeurIPS'24 (LightGaussian + expressive gaussian avatar + Read-ME + multi-scale RoPE + Large Spatial Model + transformer training dynamics + Diffusion4D + AlphaPruning) accepted

  • 1 NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmark Track'24 (Model-GLUE) accepted

  • 1 IEEE Trans. PAMI (symbolic visual RL) accepted

  • 1 JMLR (pruning provably improves generalization) accepted

  • 1 JMLR (tighter theoretical analysis of sparse activation) accepted

  • 3 ECCV'24 (Few-shot 3DGS + DreamScene360 + VersatileGaussian) accepted

  • 1 npj Digital Medicine (longitudinal medical imaging) accepted

  • 1 VLDB'24 (data privacy in LLMs) accepted

  • 1 IROS'24 (3DGS SLAM) accepted

  • 1 Nature Communication Medicine (clinical SSL for echocardiography) accepted

  • We thank AICoffeeBreak for the very cool video [Youtube] highlighting our latest work, GaLore (ICML'24 Oral) [Paper] [Code] [Hugging Face]

  • 10 ICML'24 (GaLore + Flextron + long convolution LLM + LLM junk DNA + OWL pruning + LLaGA + decoding compressed trust + sparse cocktail + LESS + zeroth-order training) accepted

  • 1 ACL'24 (LLM model soup) accepted

  • 1 Medical Image Analysis (multi-label long-tail chest X-ray) accepted

(Please check our earlier publications at the Publications Page)

Earlier

Awards

Anchor Grants&Awards

2025

Jun 2025

May 2025

Mar 2025

Jan 2025

  • We are grateful to receive the Best Paper Award from the CVPR 2025 AI for Content Creation Workshop [Paper]

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  • We are grateful to receive the DAPRA Disruptive Idea Paper Award from NeuS 2025

  • ​We are grateful to receive the Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention from MLSys 2025 [Paper]

  • VITA Ph.D. student Peihao Wang is selected to receive a 2025 Texas ECE Graduate Achievement Award

  • VITA Ph.D. student Runjin Chen is selected as an Anthropic AI Safety Fellow 2025

  • VITA Ph.D. students Ruisi Cai and Zhenyu Zhang are selected to receive the ML and Systems Rising Star Awards 2025

  • VITA Ph.D. student Peihao Wang is selected to receive a 2025 academic year UT Graduate Recognition Fellowship

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2025 Sony Faculty Research Award

  • VITA Ph.D. student Yeonju Ro (co-advised w/ Prof. Aditya Akella) is selected to receive a 2025 academic year IBM PhD Fellowship

2024

Nov 2024

Aug 2024

Jun 2024

May 2024

  • We are grateful to receive the 2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, for our paper EnlightenGAN (IEEE TIP 2021)

  • VITA Ph.D. student Ruisi Cai is selected to receive a 2025 academic year NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

  • Ph.D. dissertation of VITA alumnus Dr. Wuyang Chen is selected to receive the INNS Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award

  • VITA Postdoc Junyuan Hong is selected to receive the ML and Systems Rising Star Award 2024

2023 and earlier

2023

Sep 2023

Jul 2023

Jun 2023

Apr 2023

Mar 2023

Feb 2023

  • VITA Postdoc Shiwei Liu is selected to receive the prestigious Newton International Fellowship from the British Academy and the Royal Society

  • VITA Ph.D. students Yifan Jiang and Greg Holste are selected to receive two UT Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowships

  • VITA Ph.D. student Ajay Jaiswal is selected to receive the Inaugural Amazon Science Research Fellowship (by the UT-Amazon Hub)

  • VITA Ph.D. student Tianlong Chen is selected to receive AdvML Rising Star Award 2023

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2023 Google Research Scholar Award

  • VITA Ph.D. student Greg Holste is selected to receive a 2023 academic year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive tenure promotion (effective Sep 2023)

2022

Dec 2022

Nov 2022

Aug 2022

Jun 2022

Apr 2022

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the IEEE biennial "AI's 10 To Watch" award in 2022

  • We are grateful to receive the Best Paper Award from LoG 2022 [Paper]​

  • VITA Ph.D. student Yifan Jiang is selected to receive a 2022 academic year Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship

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  • VITA Ph.D. student Dejia Xu is selected to receive a 2022 academic year Snap Research Fellowship

  • Our group is selected to be supported by the Meta Reality Labs Research Gift Award

  • Our group is selected to be supported by the Google TensorFlow Model Garden Award (again)

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  • VITA Ph.D. student Zhiwen Fan is selected to receive a 2022 academic year Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF)

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the NSF CAREER Award

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award of International Neural Network Society (INNS)

  • VITA Ph.D. student Tianlong Chen is selected to receive a 2022 academic year Adobe PhD Research Fellowship - that is after him being awarded IBM PhD Fellowship 2021, UT Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship 2021, and Baidu Scholarship finalist

2021

Sep 2021

Jul 2021

Jun 2021

Jul 2021

  • Our group is selected to be supported by the Google TensorFlow Model Garden Award

  • VITA Postdoc Guoliang Kang joins the CS department of University of Technology Sydney, Australia, as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and endowed with the prestigious DECRA Fellow

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2021 J. P. Morgan Faculty Research Award

2020

Sep 2020

Apr 2020

  • ​Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2020 Adobe Data Science Research Award

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2020 ARO Young Investigator Award (YIP)

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2020 IBM Faculty Research Award

  • Dr. Wang is grateful to receive the 2020 Amazon Research Award (AWS AI)

Events

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2024

Dec 2024

Oct 2024

Sep 2024

May 2024

Jun 2024

Jan 2024

  • Our group co-organized the ECCV 2024 "Sometimes Less is More: the 1st Dataset Distillation Challenge""

2023 and earlier

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Oct 2023

Jun 2023

May 2023

Apr 2023

Jan 2023

2022

Aug 2022

Jul 2022

Jun 2022

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Nov 2021

Jun 2021

May 2021

Apr 2021

Jan 2021

2020

Dec 2020

Nov 2020

Aug 2020

Jun 2020

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Talks

Invited Talks at Universities and Summer Schools

2025

Sep 2025

Jul 2025

Apr 2025, Oct 2019

Mar 2025

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  • Cornell Tech AI Quantitative Finance Conference

  • International School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2025 Summer)

  • New York University, Center for Data Science

  • Princeton Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)

  • Rutgers University, ECE Department

  • Columbia Mathematics of Finance (MAFN) Conference

  • UT Austin, AI + Robotics Annual Research Symposium​​

2024

Oct 2024

Sep 2024

Aug 2024

May 2024

Mar 2024​

Jan 2024

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  • University of Pittsburgh, CS Department

  • Yale University, Healthcare Data Science Seminar

  • Columbia University, Open AGI Workshop

  • NSF IFML AI Institute Seminar (hosted by UT Austin)

  • NSF AI Spring School (hosted by UT San Antonio)

  • University of Pennsylvania, ASSET Center

  • National University of Singapore, ECE Department​​

2023 and earlier

2023

​Nov 2023

Mar 2018, Apr 2019, Oct 2023

Oct 2023

Sep 2023

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Sep 2021, Jul 2023

Apr 2023

Feb 2023

  • Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI)

  • University of Maryland, ECE Department

  • Vanderbilt University, Machine Learning Seminar Series

  • Cornell Tech, CS Department

  • Georgia Tech, Center for Signal and Information Processing

  • Peking University, CS Department

  • International School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2023 Spring)

  • UT Health, Data Science Seminar

2022

Oct 2022

Apr 2021, Oct 2022

Dec 2017, Oct 2019, Aug 2022

Oct 2019, Jul 2022,

Apr 2022

Mar 2022

  • MIT, Vision and Graphics Seminar

  • University of Michigan, EECS Department

  • Rice University, ECE Department

  • New York University, ECE Department

  • UC San Diego, AI Seminar

  • UC Los Angeles, CS Department

2021

Dec 2021

Aug 2021

Jul 2021

 

Apr 2021

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  • Boston College, Math & Machine Learning Seminar

  • CUHK Shenzhen, School of Data Science

  • Princeton University, Deep Learning Theory Summer School

  • Rutgers University, ECE Department

  • Purdue University, CS Department

  • University of Virginia, ECE Department

Dec 2020

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Nov 2019

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Oct 2019

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Jul 2019

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Oct 2018

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Nov 2017

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Jul 2016

Jun 2016

May 2016

Apr 2016

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Feb 2014

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2018

2017

2016

2014

  • University of Oregon, CS Department​​​

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  • Georgia Tech, Machine Learning Center

  • NC State University, ECE Interdisciplinary Distinguished Seminar

  • Yale University, Biomedical Imaging Department

  • University of Pennsylvania, ESE Department

  • Northeastern University, ECE Department

  • UIUC, ECE Department

  • Advanced Summer School of Learning from Data, Sao Paulo, Brazil​​​

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  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  • University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica

  • University of Trento (Italy), IECS Department 

  • Michigan State University, Machine Learning Seminar Series​​​

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  • University of Houston, ECE Department​​​

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  • University of Minnesota, ECE Department

  • Peking University, Math Department (BIMCR)

  • Northwestern University, EECS Department

  • University of Washington, ISE Department​​​

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  • UC Los Angeles, Math Department

Invited Talks at Companies and Research Institutes

2025

Jun 2021, Jun 2023, Aug 2024, Mar 2025

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  • Amazon (AGI, Search, AWS, etc.) 

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2024

Sep 2024

Apr 2024

Jan 2024

Nov 2022, Jan 2024

  • Topaz Labs, Dallas, TX

  • XPENG, AI Team

  • Unify.ai (Ivy paper reading group)

  • Intel AI Lab

2023 and earlier

2023

Sep 2023

Sep 2022, Aug 2023

Apr 2023

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  • ​Capital One, InnovateML Series

  • Qualcomm AI Research

  • Cisco, Ecient AI Summit

  • Genetech, Foundational ML research

Sep 2022

Jul 2019, Apr 2022

Apr 2022

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  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Facebook (Meta) Research

  • Baidu Research, Cognitive Computing Seminar Series

  • RIKEN, TrustML Young Scientist Seminar, Japan

2022

Aug 2021

May 2021

Apr 2021, Aug 2019, Aug 2014, Jan 2013

Mar 2021

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Feb 2021

 

Dec 2020

Jun 2020

Feb 2020

 

Aug 2019, Nov 2019

Sep 2019

Jul 2019

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Jan 2013,  Mar 2018,

Feb 2018

Jan 2018

 

Jul 2017

 

Nov 2015

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2015

  • G-Research, London, UK

  • VinAI Research, Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Adobe Research

  • tinyML  Foundation

  • NVIDIA Research

  • Katana Graph, Austin, TX

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  • AiBee Inc, Pale Alto, CA

  • IBM Research Cambridge

  • ARM ML Research Lab

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  • Google Research

  • IBM, AI Research Week, Boston, MA

  • NEC Labs America

  • Alibaba Decision Intelligence Lab, Seattle, WA

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  • US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD

  • Samsung Research America, Dallas, TX

  • Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

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  • Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ

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  • Microsoft Research Asia

Keynote/Invited Talks at Conferences and Workshops

2025

Oct 2025

Sep 2025

May 2025

Apr 2025

 

Mar 2025

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting ("GenAI for Finance" session), Atlanta, GA

  • Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), NYC

  • Texas Colloquium on Distributed Learning (TL;DR), Rice University

  • ICLR Workshop on Scalable Optimization for Efficient and Adaptive Foundation Models (SCOPE), Singapore

  • AAAI Workshop on AI for Time Series Analysis, Philadelphia, PA

Dec 2024

Sep 2024

Jul 2024

Jun 2024

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Apr 2024

 

Mar 2024

2024

  • NeurIPS Edge-Device Large Language Model Competition, Vancouver

  • Ukrainian Computer Science Conference, Lviv, Ukraine

  • Open AGI Summit "Shaping the Future of Open AI", Bruxelles, Belgium

  • CVPR Workshop on Efficient Deep Learning for CV, Seattle, WA

  • New York Techweek "Responsible AI in the field of IP"

  • NSF Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-design for Neurosymbolic Computation, Washington D.C.

  • INFORMS Optimization Society Conference ("Machine Learning for Optimization" invited session), Houston, TX

2023 and earlier

2023

​Dec 2023

Nov 2023

Aug 2023

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Jul 2023

Jun 2023

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  • ​NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Systems, New Orleans, LA

  • Google Efficient ML Workshop, NYC

  • KDD Workshop on Graph Learning Benchmarks (GLB), LA, CA

  • KDD Workshop on Resource-Ecient Learning, LA, CA

  • KDD Workshop on Ethical AI: Methods and Applications, LA, CA

  • ICML Workshop on New Frontiers in Adversarial ML, Honolulu, HI

  • SIAM Conference on Optimization ("Learning to Solve Optimization Problems with Deep Learning" minisymposium), Seattle, WA

Oct 2022

Jul 2022

Jun 2022

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May 2022

Apr 2022

 

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  • Google Sparse Models Workshop

  • ICML Workshop on Interpretable ML in Healthcare, Baltimore, MD

  • CVPR Workshop on Efficient Deep Learning for CV, New Orleans, LA

  • CVPR Workshop on Dynamic NNs meets CV, New Orleans, LA

  • Knowledge Graph Conference, New York, NY

  • SIAM UQ Conference ("Deep Learning for Optimization" minisymposium), Atlanta, GA

  • Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), AdvML session, Princeton, NJ

2022

​Aug 2021

Jan 2021

 

Jul 2020

 

Jan 2019

Jan 2019

 

Jun 2018

 

 

Nov 2017

Oct 2017

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  • ​KDD Workshop on Knowledge Graph (KGKDD)

  • WACV Workshop on Vision on Biased or Scarce Data

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  • DAC Workshop on Research Open Automatic Design for NNs

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  • AFC/ARL Workshop on Holistic Scene Understanding, Austin, TX

  • AAAI Workshop on AI for Natural Disasters, Holunulu, HI

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  • SIAM Imaging Science Conference ("Data-Driven Approaches in Imaging Science" minisymposium), Bologna, Italy

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  • Supercomputing Conference (Lenovo awardee), Denver, CO

  • CCC Symposium on Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs (Selected faculty presenter), Washington D.C.

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